Senior Platform Engineer - Remote & Flexible Hours

Neo Group; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work opportunity

Flexible working schedule

Interesting product

Learning opportunities

Career growth prospects

Job summary

Neo Group is seeking a Senior System Engineer to join our Engineering Team. You will evolve Infrastructure & Operations toward platform engineering, standardize workflows, and build reusable provisioning capabilities for databases, messaging, secrets, DNS, compute, and environments.

Role requires hands-on Kubernetes production experience, IaC with Terraform/Ansible, and strong scripting in Python/Go. You'll collaborate with Dev, SRE, DBA, Security and Infra teams while driving reliability and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Systems Engineering, SRE, DevOps, Production Engineering or similar roles.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Good understanding of production infrastructure, networking and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production.
• Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management, using Terraform, Ansible or similar tools.
• Experience with CI/CD and infrastructure automation workflows.
• Programming or strong scripting skills in Python, Go, Java, Bash or similar.
• Experience with monitoring and observability systems.
• Understanding of secrets management and secure infrastructure access patterns.
• Experience integrating infrastructure systems through APIs.
• Ability to design reusable infrastructure solutions instead of one-off automation.
• Strong systems thinking and ability to troubleshoot complex cross-system issues.
• Ability and willingness to learn new infrastructure and platform technologies.

Responsibilities

• Platform Engineering & Transformation: Evolve Infra & Ops toward platform engineering.
• Workflow Automation & Standardization: Standardize and automate infrastructure workflows.
• Core Capabilities & Provisioning: Build reusable infrastructure capabilities for databases, messaging, secrets, DNS, compute, monitoring, and environments.
• Internal Tooling & Lifecycle Management: Develop internal tooling, APIs, and declarative workflows.
• Ecosystem & Tooling Integration: Integrate Kubernetes, CI/CD, networking, secrets, databases, observability.
• Architectural & Technical Design: Contribute to platform and infra service design.
• Reliability & Performance Engineering: Improve reliability and scalability of production infra.
• Troubleshooting & Incident Investigation: Investigate complex infra & prod issues.
• Observability & Diagnostics: Enhance observability and diagnostics.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with Development, DevOps, SRE, DBA, Security, Infra teams.
• Documentation & Best Practices: Document solutions and usage guidelines.
• Technology Innovation & Developer Experience: Introduce tools improving developer experience.

Skills

Linux

CI/CD

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Go

Scripting

Observability

Secrets management

API integration

Automation design

Systems thinking

Troubleshooting

Cross-functional

Analytical thinking

Ownership

Communication

Hands-on

Documentation

Knowledge sharing

Tools

Kubernetes

Monitoring tools

Networking basics

Databases

Cloud platforms

Git

Proxmox

VMware

Job description

Neo Group is seeking a Senior System Engineer to join our Engineering Team. You will evolve Infrastructure & Operations toward platform engineering, standardize workflows, and build reusable provisioning capabilities for databases, messaging, secrets, DNS, compute, and environments.

Role requires hands-on Kubernetes production experience, IaC with Terraform/Ansible, and strong scripting in Python/Go. You'll collaborate with Dev, SRE, DBA, Security and Infra teams while driving reliability and