Terraform Developer (JC)

The Matlen Silver Group, Inc.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

The Matlen Silver Group, Inc. is seeking a Senior Terraform Developer to design, build, and operate IaC solutions that enable scalable, secure platform services. This role emphasizes reusable Terraform modules and strong API-based integrations.

You will develop and maintain modules, model complex infrastructure with external systems, and drive end-to-end automated testing with Go and Python tooling. Collaboration with security, platform, and application teams is essential, along with mentoring

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software or platform engineering experience.
• 5+ years hands-on experience developing and operating Terraform-based infrastructure solutions in enterprise environments.
• Deep expertise in Terraform module design, input/output modeling, composition patterns, and versioning.
• Strong experience modeling infrastructure and platform components that integrate with external APIs.
• Proficiency in Go (Golang) for Terraform-related tooling, testing frameworks, or provider development.
• Strong experience using Python for automation, orchestration, and validation workflows.
• Proven experience implementing end-to-end automated testing for infrastructure, including plan validation, integration testing, and lifecycle testing.
• Strong understanding of Terraform state management, dependency modeling, and drift detection.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot Terraform executions and resolve issues related to providers, APIs, and resource lifecycles.
• Proficiency with Git and modern CI/CD workflows, including code reviews and automated pipelines.
• Experience developing or extending custom Terraform providers or working directly with provider SDKs.
• Strong understanding of API authentication and authorization concepts, including token-based auth and service credentials.
• Familiarity with contract-driven resource modeling and aligning Terraform abstractions to underlying service APIs.
• Experience integrating Terraform workflows into CI/CD pipelines with policy checks and automated validation.
• Knowledge of policy-as-code frameworks (e.g., Sentinel, OPA) for enforcing infrastructure standards.
• Experience working in cloud or hybrid environments, including networking, security, and platform services.
• Strong appreciation for clean, well-documented Terraform code, with an emphasis on reusable and supportable modules.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, contribute to design reviews, and influence infrastructure standards.
• Excellent collaboration skills, with experience working across platform, application, and security teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate reusable Terraform modules for complex infrastructure.
• Implement end-to-end automated testing for infrastructure changes.
• Build tooling and validation frameworks using Go and Python.
• Mentor engineers and influence architectural standards.
• Collaborate with platform, security, and application teams.
• Model infrastructure and external API integrations.

Skills

Terraform

Terraform module design

APIs integration

Go (Golang)

Python

Automated testing

CI/CD workflows

Terraform state management

Provider SDKs

Git

Cloud/hybrid

Mentoring/leadership

Security collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Go

Python

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Seeking a Senior Terraform Developer to design, build, and operate infrastructure-as-code solutions that enable scalable, repeatable, and secure platform services. This role is ideal for an engineer with deep expertise in Terraform module design, resource modeling, and API-based integrations, coupled with strong automation and testing discipline.

The Senior Terraform Developer will be responsible for developing and maintaining reusable Terraform modules that model complex infrastructure and platform resources, including integrations with external systems via APIs. This role emphasizes clean module interfaces, strong abstractions, and maintainable state management, ensuring infrastructure configurations are reliable, auditable, and extensible.

A key responsibility of this role is to implement end-to-end automated testing for infrastructure changes, validating behavior across planning, provisioning, integration, and lifecycle operations. The ideal candidate will leverage Go and Python to build tooling, automation workflows, and custom validation frameworks that support infrastructure delivery at scale.

This role requires strong troubleshooting skills across large-scale, multi-environment deployments, including the ability to analyze Terraform plans, provider behaviors, API interactions, and state drift. As a senior engineer, the candidate will influence standards, best practices, and architectural direction, while mentoring other engineers and collaborating closely with platform, security, and application teams.

• 8+ years of overall software or platform engineering experience
• 5+ years of hands-on experience developing and operating Terraform-based infrastructure solutions in enterprise environments
• Deep expertise in Terraform module design, including input/output modeling, composition patterns, and versioning strategies
• Strong experience modeling infrastructure and platform components that integrate with external APIs and services
• Proficiency in Go (Golang) for Terraform-related tooling, testing frameworks, or provider development
• Strong experience using Python for automation, orchestration, and validation workflows
• Proven experience implementing end-to-end automated testing for infrastructure, including plan validation, integration testing, and lifecycle testing
• Strong understanding of Terraform state management, dependency modeling, and drift detection
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot Terraform executions and resolve issues related to providers, APIs, and resource lifecycles
• Proficiency with Git and modern CI/CD workflows, including code reviews and automated pipelines
• Experience developing or extending custom Terraform providers or working directly with provider SDKs
• Strong understanding of API authentication and authorization concepts, including token-based auth and service credentials
• Familiarity with contract-driven resource modeling and aligning Terraform abstractions to underlying service APIs
• Experience integrating Terraform workflows into CI/CD pipelines with policy checks and automated validation
• Knowledge of policy-as-code frameworks (e.g., Sentinel, OPA) for enforcing infrastructure standards
• Experience working in cloud or hybrid environments, including networking, security, and platform services
• Strong appreciation for clean, well-documented Terraform code, with an emphasis on reusable and supportable modules
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, contribute to design reviews, and influence infrastructure standards
• Excellent collaboration skills, with experience working across platform, application, and security teams