Senior Platform Engineer: Secure Cloud & Infra

Quilter; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary + equity

Health/dental/vision insurance

Unlimited PTO

Paid parental leave

Team events and offsites

Job summary

Quilter is seeking a security-focused infrastructure engineer to own and harden our cloud platforms. You will implement IAM, secrets management, audit logging, and automated controls across Kubernetes and AWS, using Terraform and IaC practices.

You will work with software engineers to embed security into reusable systems, ensure recoverability, and support SOC 2 and ISO 27001 readiness. Ideal candidates have hands-on cloud ownership, Linux troubleshooting, and scripting in Python or Go.

Qualifications

• Production cloud infrastructure ownership experience.
• Hands-on security controls experience (IAM, secrets, audit logs).
• Practical Kubernetes and IaC experience (AWS, Terraform).
• Strong Linux troubleshooting across cloud services.
• Ability to write automation/tools in Python or Go.
• Ability to translate security requirements into technical controls.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain secure infrastructure.
• Improve cloud and Kubernetes configuration, network boundaries, machine identities, secrets management, least-privilege access, and audit logging.
• Own the infrastructure maintenance lifecycle.
• Keep images, dependencies, and infrastructure components current; investigate vulnerability findings; prioritize remediation; and roll out changes safely.
• Implement and automate compliance controls.
• Translate agreed requirements into technical controls, validation checks, access reviews, evidence collection, and remediation tooling. Work with business stakeholders on scope and audit support for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and prospective FedRAMP work.
• Make recovery dependable.
• Work with service owners to implement and test backup/restore procedures, document recovery steps, and address gaps revealed by exercises and incidents.
• Improve operational readiness.
• Partner with service owners on useful alerts, incident playbooks, and communication. Participate in production troubleshooting and follow through on corrective work.
• Contribute to infrastructure efficiency.
• Help the team understand resource usage and cost, identify capacity constraints and waste, and make targeted improvements alongside security and maintenance priorities.
• Partner on safe deployment and data access.
• Work with the engineers building our delivery, runtime, and data platforms to embed security and operational requirements into reusable systems.

Skills

Production cloud ownership

Security controls

Kubernetes

Terraform

Linux troubleshooting

Python/Go scripting

Communication

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Quilter is seeking a security-focused infrastructure engineer to own and harden our cloud platforms. You will implement IAM, secrets management, audit logging, and automated controls across Kubernetes and AWS, using Terraform and IaC practices.

You will work with software engineers to embed security into reusable systems, ensure recoverability, and support SOC 2 and ISO 27001 readiness. Ideal candidates have hands-on cloud ownership, Linux troubleshooting, and scripting in Python or Go.