Sr Platform Engineer (AWS)

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will work closely with the engineering team on cloud infrastructure reliability and scalability. You'll help streamline developer workflows and build self-service platform features that support engineering teams.

You will identify infrastructure and process bottlenecks, improve deployment automation, and help maintain developer velocity so teams can ship reliable software efficiently.

• →Manage AWS Cloud Infrastructure: Contribute to our core AWS cloud environment. Architecting, securing, and maintaining highly available, cost-efficient infrastructure, including robust AWS networking configurations (VPCs, subnets, and route tables).
• →Administer Kubernetes: Manage, optimize, and monitor our AWS Kubernetes clusters, ensuring robust container orchestration, healthy resource allocation, and smooth scaling.
• →Automate Deployment Pipelines: Architect, implement, and maintain secure, reliable CI/CD pipelines using ArgoCD and GitHub Actions to automate software delivery.
• →Empower Developer Self-Service: Write, modularize, and maintain Helm charts and platform templates to abstract infrastructure complexity and enable developers to deploy their applications independently.
• →Optimize Network & Traffic Control: Configure and manage our service mesh architecture using Istio to ensure secure traffic flow, robust encryption, and advanced routing capabilities.
• →Manage AWS Infrastructure as Code: Codify and maintain all cloud resources using Terraform, ensuring environment consistency across staging and production.

• A Strong Moral Compass: You believe in doing the right thing, period. We have a strict zero-tolerance policy for toxic behaviors.
• Customer-First Empathy: You are passionate about delivering an exceptional experience to everyone you work with, both inside and outside the company.
• Intellectual Curiosity: You naturally question the status quo and love finding innovative ways to solve problems.
• A Growth Mindset: You possess a hunger for continuous learning and want to constantly expand your skillset.
• Urgency & Prioritization: You can pivot quickly and balance the need to get things right with the speed of getting them done right now.
• A Solution-Oriented Outlook: When things go wrong, you don't look for blame—you immediately focus on how to fix it.
• Transparent Communication: You value honesty, clarity, and open feedback.
• Team-First Energy: You want to win together as a high-performing team and actively build connections across our remote locations.

• 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Hands-on AWS expertise: Strong experience building and maintaining cloud infrastructure, including robust AWS networking (VPCs, subnets, routing).
• Production Kubernetes administration: Experience administering, scaling, and monitoring containerized environments.
• Advanced CI/CD automation: Proven expertise in building deployment pipelines using ArgoCD and GitHub Actions.
• Helm templating: Hands-on experience writing and modularizing Helm charts to package applications for developer self-service.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency in managing complex environments using Terraform.
• Service mesh networking: Experience configuring traffic routing, security policies, and observability using Istio.
• Strong communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Other cloud provider experience: Azure, GCP
• OPA Gatekeeper policies
• PostgreSQL
• Scripting: Python, Bash
• Atlantis
• Spacelift

• Cloud Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform
• CI/CD & Deployments: ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Atlantis
• Service Mesh: Istio
• Packaging & Templating: Helm
• Collaboration Tools: GitHub, Slack, Jira, Confluence