Senior Platform Engineer — IDP, IaC & CI/CD Lead

STAND 8; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental/Vision/Ancillary coverages

401(k) retirement savings plan

Paid-time-off options

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Discount programs

Job summary

Stand8 is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own the internal developer platform (IDP) and lead the self-service workflows and Golden Paths relied on by engineering teams. This contract-to-hire role reports to the Head of Platform Engineering & AI and requires strong independent judgment.

You will steer infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, observability, security, and cost management, while mentoring peers and applying FinOps practices to keep platform spend under control.

Qualifications

• Proficient Python programming with production automation.
• Deep cloud experience with AWS or Azure and containerized infrastructure.
• End-to-end CI/CD ownership including secure deployments.
• Infrastructure as code at scale using Terraform in production.
• Security-minded development and RBAC awareness.
• Experience applying FinOps/cost-management to cloud spend at scale.
• Track record of building metrics or reporting for leadership visibility.
• Treating platform users as customers and acting on their feedback.

Responsibilities

• Own the internal developer platform (IDP): design and evolve self-service workflows and Golden Paths used by engineers.
• Lead infrastructure as code practices and set standards for provisioning and management of infrastructure.
• Own CI/CD architecture and pipelines, including GitOps concepts and secure deployment methods.
• Drive observability strategy to ensure the platform is well-monitored, logged, and traced.
• Own performance reporting to show leadership month-to-month how the platform performs.
• Set security and access standards for secrets, RBAC, and access control across the platform.
• Own platform cost and efficiency, tracking spend and recommending optimizations.
• Guide other engineers with informal technical direction and reviews.

Skills

Python

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud experience (AWS/Azure)

Terraform

Security mindset

FinOps / cost management

Observability & metrics

Developer collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Stand8 is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own the internal developer platform (IDP) and lead the self-service workflows and Golden Paths relied on by engineering teams. This contract-to-hire role reports to the Head of Platform Engineering & AI and requires strong independent judgment.

You will steer infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, observability, security, and cost management, while mentoring peers and applying FinOps practices to keep platform spend under control.