SRE Platform Engineer

Buxton Enterprises; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Buxton Enterprises is seeking a remote-first SRE Platform Engineer to design, build, and evolve platform infrastructure while reducing cognitive load through automation and collaboration.

You will own internal tooling, manage infrastructure as code with Terraform, and run containerized workloads on AWS ECS and Kubernetes in production. This role emphasizes reliability, security and observability to empower development teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in product-minded platform or infrastructure teams.
• Proficiency with cloud services (AWS) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Background in running and supporting production infrastructure.
• Strong emphasis on reliability, security and observability.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement internal tools and automation to improve developer experience.
• Manage and evolve cloud infrastructure as code using Terraform.
• Operate and enhance containerized workloads on AWS ECS and Kubernetes in production.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Observability

Reliability

Security

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Joining a remote-first team, the full-time SRE Platform Engineer will design, build, and evolve platform infrastructure while enhancing developer experience and reducing cognitive load through automation and collaboration across engineering teams.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement internal tools and automation to improve developer experience
• Manage and evolve cloud infrastructure as code using Terraform
• Operate and enhance containerized workloads on AWS ECS and Kubernetes in production

Required qualifications

• Experience in product-minded platform or infrastructure teams
• Proficiency in cloud services (AWS) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform
• Background in running and supporting production infrastructure
• Strong understanding of reliability, security, and observability in systems