Senior Platform Engineer - Remote | Kubernetes & IaC Expert

Xpresstechfreight; Chattanooga (TN); Remote; USD 106,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision

401k with Employer Matching

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Paid Parental Leave

Short Term Incentive Program

Employee Assistance Program

Pet Insurance

Job summary

U.S. Xpress is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to contribute to a hybrid infrastructure and build platform capabilities to enhance developer experience and speed to market.

The role involves working within the Unified Platform team and collaborating with IT architects, backend, frontend, mobile, and data engineering teams. The ideal candidate has 5–7 years of relevant experience, strong AWS/EKS expertise, and a focus on automation, security, and scalable deployments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree or equivalent required.
• 5–7 years relevant experience required.
• Transportation, Logistics, and/or Tech experience a plus.

Responsibilities

• Create custom GitHub Actions for building applications.
• Develop script modules to deploy applications to end platform.
• Develop a framework to backup/restore from containers and platforms.
• Gain knowledge about Kubernetes and develop controllers to auto remediate issues inside a containerized cluster.
• Work on IaC using Terraform to create resources using best practices for reporting and monitoring.
• Mentor junior developers in technical aspects such as design and implementation.
• Harden the security of the accounts while enabling deployment.

Skills

AWS EKS

Kubernetes

GitOps

Terraform

Monitoring

Security & Compliance

Cost Optimization

Multi-Cluster Mgmt

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor of Science degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS EKS

Terraform

Rancher

Argo CD

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK Stack

Job description

U.S. Xpress is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to contribute to a hybrid infrastructure and build platform capabilities to enhance developer experience and speed to market.

The role involves working within the Unified Platform team and collaborating with IT architects, backend, frontend, mobile, and data engineering teams. The ideal candidate has 5–7 years of relevant experience, strong AWS/EKS expertise, and a focus on automation, security, and scalable deployments.