Senior Platform Engineer - Secure, Reliable & Automated

Skip Loans; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Skip Loans in Australia seeks a senior platform engineer to own the harness that runs cloud infrastructure, security posture, and the deployment pipeline. You will design least-privilege access, automate provisioning, and build repeatable, verifiable processes so engineers ship safely and quickly.

You will also own corporate IT and device fleet management, focusing on self-healing, automated security, and incident readiness in a regulated lending environment.

Qualifications

• Six-plus years of experience across DevOps, platform, security, or operations-heavy engineering.
• Built and secured production cloud infrastructure (AWS) with least-privilege and automation.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and deployment pipelines to enable rapid, safe shipping.
• Familiarity with working in regulated or compliance-sensitive environments.

Responsibilities

• Own platform security posture, vulnerability management, and incident response.
• Define and test reliability targets, incident management, and DR planning.
• Own infrastructure-as-code and the deployment pipeline for fast, safe production releases.
• Manage fleet, identity, and corporate IT with automated provisioning and lifecycle processes.
• Develop self-healing systems and guardrails to reduce manual toil.

Skills

DevOps

Platform

Security

Automation

Infrastructure as Code

AWS

Observability

Tools

AWS

Serverless Framework

Auth0

BetterStack

Doppler

Rippling MDM

Job description

Skip Loans in Australia seeks a senior platform engineer to own the harness that runs cloud infrastructure, security posture, and the deployment pipeline. You will design least-privilege access, automate provisioning, and build repeatable, verifiable processes so engineers ship safely and quickly.

You will also own corporate IT and device fleet management, focusing on self-healing, automated security, and incident readiness in a regulated lending environment.