Senior Platform Engineer (Remote EST)

Veritas Partners; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Veritas Partners is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to own and evolve cloud infrastructure and automation platforms supporting investment tech. You will design, implement, and secure cloud services, with emphasis on Terraform modules, IAM, and networking.

You will build CI/CD pipelines, observability, and release tooling, enabling secure and efficient software delivery across DevOps teams. Remote-friendly with residency in select US states.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of platform/DevOps/infrastructure experience.
• Experience with cloud engineering, SRE, or similar roles.
• Strong hands-on AWS across compute, networking, IAM, security, storage, and data services.
• Proficient in infrastructure-as-code with Terraform.
• Experience operating CI/CD pipelines for distributed/containerized apps.
• Experience with enterprise observability platforms (Datadog or equivalent).
• Experience with GitHub-based engineering workflows and version control.
• Familiarity with JVM environments (Java or Groovy) deployment/support.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure across dev/test/prod using IaC.
• Own Terraform architecture, modules, governance, and deployment lifecycles.
• Design and enhance CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and deployment tooling.
• Build and operate observability platforms including monitoring, logging, tracing, and performance visibility.
• Support secure software delivery and engineering workflows across teams.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Linux

CI/CD

Observability

Datadog

GitHub workflows

Java/Groovy

Networking

Security

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Datadog

GitHub Actions

Job description

This role can be hired fully remote, but candidates must reside in one of the following states: VA, MD, DE, DC, PA, NJ, NY, CT

Responsibilities/overview:

• Seeking an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to join a high-impact engineering team responsible for the cloud infrastructure and automation platforms that support the firm's investment technology ecosystem. This role offers significant ownership, technical breadth, and direct business impact. The successful candidate will design, build, secure, and evolve the cloud platforms that underpin trading systems, analytics platforms, operational workflows, and emerging AI-enabled capabilities.
• Design, build, and maintain the company's cloud infrastructure across development, test, and production environments using infrastructure-as-code principles.
• Own Terraform architecture, module development, governance standards, and deployment lifecycle management.
• Design and enhance CI/CD pipelines, release automation, deployment tooling, and engineering workflows that enable secure and efficient software delivery.
• Build and operate observability platforms, including monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, and production performance visibility.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional experience in platform engineering, cloud engineering, site reliability engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure architecture roles.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience across compute, networking, IAM, security, storage, and data platform services.
• Deep experience designing and managing infrastructure-as-code environments using Terraform.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, including VPC architecture, routing, subnets, VPN connectivity, network security controls, and troubleshooting.
• Strong Linux systems administration experience supporting production workloads.
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines supporting distributed or containerized application environments.
• Experience operating enterprise observability platforms such as Datadog or equivalent monitoring ecosystems.
• Experience with GitHub-based engineering workflows, automation, and infrastructure version control.
• Working familiarity with JVM-based application environments, including Java or Groovy service deployment and support.

Preferred:

• Experience designing highly available, multi-region cloud architectures and automated failover strategies.
• Experience with identity platforms such as Okta, SSO integrations, OIDC, and modern zero trust access architectures.
• Familiarity with regulated financial services environments or mission-critical production platforms.
• Exposure to mortgage-backed securities, repo financing, or fixed income investment platforms.
• Certifications such AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, AWS Security or Systems Security Certified Practitioner.