Senior/Staff Infrastructure – Platform Engineer

Jobtailor

Santa Clara (CA)

On-site

USD 170,000 - 250,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Jobtailor seeks a Senior Infrastructure/Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable, secure infrastructure across cloud, Kubernetes, on-premises, and hybrid environments.

You will drive solutions from problem definition through architecture and production, advance internal developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and automation, and improve the developer experience across the software lifecycle.

Qualifications

6+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, software engineering, SRE, DevOps, or related fields.
Strong programming and software engineering fundamentals with experience developing production-quality tools and services.
Deep production Kubernetes experience, including troubleshooting complex environments.
Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and/or on-premises infrastructure; self-managed or bare-metal.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar technologies.
Experience designing and improving CI/CD platforms and deployment automation.
Strong understanding of Linux, networking, distributed systems, and infrastructure architecture.
Strong experience with server provisioning, configuration management, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
Hands‑on experience with Ansible, Chef, or similar configuration management and automation technologies.
Strong programming skills in at least one language such as Go, Python, Rust, or C++.
Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and reliability engineering practices.
Ability to lead complex technical initiatives, evaluate tradeoffs, and drive scalable, maintainable solutions through production.
Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and cross‑functional teams.
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of hire.
Candidates must have a minimum of 24 months of current U.S. work authorization remaining without employer sponsorship.
Nice-to-have qualifications include internal developer platforms, on-premises/private-cloud/bare-metal Kubernetes, Kubernetes operators/controllers, productivity or reliability metrics, Kubernetes CNI/CSI, distributed technologies, Jenkins, VPN, SSO, infrastructure security, network infrastructure, hardware/server provisioning, data center operations, and enterprise customer deployment experience

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure across cloud, Kubernetes, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
Identify complex infrastructure and engineering productivity challenges and drive solutions from problem definition through architecture, implementation, and production.
Build and improve internal developer platforms, tools, and services.
Design, build, and optimize CI/CD platforms and pipelines.
Automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, testing, monitoring, and operational workflows.
Improve developer experience across the software lifecycle with engineering teams.
Develop reusable Infrastructure as Code, automation, and platform capabilities.
Build systems with reliability, observability, resilience, security, and disaster recovery capabilities.
Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and platform issues; participate in incident response and root-cause analysis.
Evaluate technologies and architectural approaches and establish infrastructure standards and best practices.
Lead technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams and contribute to infrastructure and developer productivity strategy

Skills

Kubernetes Expertise

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD Platform Design

Cloud Infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Strong Programming Skills (Go, Python,

Linux & Networking

Distributed Systems

Incident Response & DR

Collaboration & Communication

Problem Solving

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Jenkins

AWS

Azure

GCP

Linux

VPN

Job description

Design, build, and operate scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure across cloud, Kubernetes, on-premises, and hybrid environments
Identify complex infrastructure and engineering productivity challenges and drive solutions from problem definition through architecture, implementation, and production
Build and improve internal developer platforms, tools, and services
Design, build, and optimize CI/CD platforms and pipelines
Automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, testing, monitoring, and operational workflows
Improve developer experience across the software lifecycle with engineering teams
Develop reusable Infrastructure as Code, automation, and platform capabilities
Build systems with reliability, observability, resilience, security, and disaster recovery capabilities
Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and platform issues; participate in incident response and root-cause analysis
Evaluate technologies and architectural approaches and establish infrastructure standards and best practices
Lead technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams and contribute to infrastructure and developer productivity strategy

Requirements

6+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, software engineering, SRE, DevOps, or related fields
Strong programming and software engineering fundamentals with experience developing production-quality tools and services
Deep production Kubernetes experience, including troubleshooting complex environments
Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and/or on-premises infrastructure; self-managed or bare-metal
Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar technologies
Experience designing and improving CI/CD platforms and deployment automation
Strong understanding of Linux, networking, distributed systems, and infrastructure architecture
Strong experience with server provisioning, configuration management, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management
Hands‑on experience with Ansible, Chef, or similar configuration management and automation technologies
Strong programming skills in at least one language such as Go, Python, Rust, or C++
Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and reliability engineering practices
Ability to lead complex technical initiatives, evaluate tradeoffs, and drive scalable, maintainable solutions through production
Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and cross‑functional teams
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of hire
Candidates must have a minimum of 24 months of current U.S. work authorization remaining without employer sponsorship
Nice-to-have qualifications include internal developer platforms, on-premises/private-cloud/bare-metal Kubernetes, Kubernetes operators/controllers, productivity or reliability metrics, Kubernetes CNI/CSI, distributed technologies, Jenkins, VPN, SSO, infrastructure security, network infrastructure, hardware/server provisioning, data center operations, and enterprise customer deployment experience

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in designing and operating scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure across cloud and hybrid environments, with a strong focus on automation, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code. Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and improve developer experience through effective collaboration and problem-solving.

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