Senior Platform Engineer - Zero-Downtime Infra Migrations

Viome Life Sciences; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Viome Life Sciences in Bellevue, WA, seeks a Senior Platform Operations Engineer, Infrastructure to own Viome’s Azure-based service platform and simplify it through robust Unix-based systems engineering.

You will migrate services from AKS to VM-based hosting, author systemd units, and build deployment scripts with a focus on immutable artifacts, rollback, and secure, scalable hosting. The role emphasizes governance, observability, and cross-cloud coordination.

Qualifications

• 7+ years operating production Unix/Linux systems, with deep knowledge of systemd, process supervision; Apache, HAProxy
• Strong shell plus one scripting language (bash/Python/PHP) with a track record of building deploy and rollback tooling, not just using it.
• Demonstrated reverse-engineering ability: taking ownership of an undocumented production service and recovering its real dependencies and failure modes.
• Message-queue literacy: Azure Service Bus, SQS, RabbitMQ, or equivalent — ordering, lock/ack semantics, dead-letter handling.
• PostgreSQL operations: replicas/clones, connection proxying, network-restricted access, production diagnostics.
• Working proficiency with Kubernetes and cloud networking — enough to operate private AKS clusters, an Istio-style ingress layer, and Azure firewall/DNS during the transition.
• Migration experience: consolidating or re-platforming production services with zero-downtime cutover and tested rollback.
• A demonstrable record of reducing system surface area — services consolidated, infrastructure retired.
• Clear written communication for runbooks, migration plans, and cross-functional coordination.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute zero-downtime migrations of services from AKS/containers to VM-based hosting: systemd unit authoring and service supervision (restart policy, resource limits, sandboxing), Apache, HAProxy and/or nginx as reverse proxy and TLS terminator, certificate automation.
• Build and own the deployment scripts for the target platform: build → test → archive → ship → symlink-flip → health-check → rollback, scripted in bash.
• Preserve two non-negotiable invariants while simplifying everything else: immutable, commit-traceable artifacts and scripted rollback.
• Inventory and retire stale infrastructure: dormant deployments, unused DNS records, orphaned firewall rules, unpinned image tags.
• Maintain host hygiene for consolidated services: OS patching discipline, runtime vendoring, log rotation, centralized log aggregation.
• Familiarity with UptimeKuma, Nagios or similar.
• Operate and migrate data stores: PostgreSQL and/or MySQL.

Skills

Unix/Linux

systemd

Apache

HAProxy

Nginx

bash scripting

Python

PHP

Kubernetes

Azure

Networking

OpenTelemetry

ELK

Terraform

Tools

AKS

Docker

Istio

Terraform (IaC)

OpenTelemetry tooling

Job description

Viome Life Sciences in Bellevue, WA, seeks a Senior Platform Operations Engineer, Infrastructure to own Viome’s Azure-based service platform and simplify it through robust Unix-based systems engineering.

You will migrate services from AKS to VM-based hosting, author systemd units, and build deployment scripts with a focus on immutable artifacts, rollback, and secure, scalable hosting. The role emphasizes governance, observability, and cross-cloud coordination.