Senior Platform Engineer

Job description

Title: Senior Platform Engineer
Location: Remote
Type: Direct Hire

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to help build, operate, and continuously improve a modern cloud platform supporting highly available and scalable applications. This role blends DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering principles, with a strong focus on reliability, automation, and operational maturity across multi-cloud environments.

The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on experience in AWS and Azure, thrives in complex distributed systems, and enjoys partnering with development teams to improve how software is built, deployed, and operated.

How You’ll Make an Impact

  • Architect and evolve cloud environments that balance performance, resilience, security, and cost across AWS and Azure

  • Own the reliability and day-to-day health of Kubernetes platforms, including cluster lifecycle management and workload optimization

  • Advance software delivery practices by building and refining automated pipelines that enable fast, repeatable deployments

  • Establish strong observability practices through metrics, logs, and alerts that enable proactive system monitoring

  • Champion infrastructure automation and Infrastructure-as-Code to reduce manual effort and improve consistency

  • Work closely with application teams to improve system reliability, deployment confidence, and operational workflows

  • Contribute to incident management, on-call support, and disaster recovery readiness

  • Embed security best practices into cloud platforms, networking, and access controls

What You Bring

  • 10+ years of experience in platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure roles

  • Proven experience operating production workloads in both AWS and Azure environments

  • Deep expertise managing Kubernetes at scale, including EKS and AKS

  • Strong background designing and maintaining CI/CD workflows using platforms such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools

  • Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability platforms, with Datadog preferred

  • Strong scripting and automation skills using languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell

  • Practical experience implementing Infrastructure-as-Code using tools like Terraform, Bicep, or CloudFormation

  • Solid understanding of cloud networking, security, and distributed system architecture

  • Ability to troubleshoot complex issues under pressure and communicate clearly during incidents

Preferred Attributes

  • Experience improving platform reliability and operational maturity in high-growth or complex environments

  • Strong collaborator who can bridge the gap between infrastructure and application teams

  • Passion for automation, system resilience, and continuous improvement

Job details

Job type Permanent

Location Atlanta, GA

Reference JOB-4847

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