Senior Platform Engineer - Remote, Cloud & Reliability

Service Management Group (SMG); United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Extended parental leave

Company-issued equipment

Remote work culture

Job summary

SMG is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, support, and improve core infrastructure, ensuring reliability, security, performance, and recoverability. You will work across cloud, network, identity, messaging, virtualization, and security with IT and security teams to resolve incidents and automate repeatable work.

The role emphasizes improving platform standards, observability, and engineering practices, while partnering on migrations to cloud and ensuring business continuity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or related roles.
• Experience designing/operating cloud and hybrid infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of Azure/AWS/GCP architectures and security practices.
• Proficient in scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python) and monitoring of distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate responses to complex infrastructure incidents across cloud, identity, networking, and security.
• Provide senior-level guidance and escalation support to improve issue resolution.
• Optimize performance, reliability, and cost efficiency of cloud services and on-prem infrastructure.
• Collaborate with security and IT partners to strengthen disaster recovery and recoverability.
• Administer and improve enterprise network/security technologies (Azure networking, Cisco ASA/ISE, Umbrella, F5).
• Automate repeatable tasks with scripting to improve efficiency and accuracy.
• Lead or support migrations to cloud with minimal disruption to service continuity.
• Advance engineering enablement by building reusable platform capabilities and observability.

Skills

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Monitoring

Automation

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

F5 load balancer

Cisco ASA/ISE

Cisco Umbrella

Virtualization platforms

Job description

SMG is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, support, and improve core infrastructure, ensuring reliability, security, performance, and recoverability. You will work across cloud, network, identity, messaging, virtualization, and security with IT and security teams to resolve incidents and automate repeatable work.

The role emphasizes improving platform standards, observability, and engineering practices, while partnering on migrations to cloud and ensuring business continuity.