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We work shoulder-to-shoulder with client teams to move from idea to production quickly and sustainably, with a clear path to scale.\nFounded in 2011, Modus is a global, fully remote team of world-class technologists who thrive in a collaborative, innovative environment. We're a digital product engineering partner for forward-thinking businesses. Our global teams work side-by-side with clients to design, build, and scale custom solutions that achieve real results and lasting change, partnering with industry leaders including AWS, GitHub, and Atlassian.\nWe were fully remote before it was cool! Recognized as one of the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies for nine years and a top remote work company by FlexJobs, we have helped some of the world's largest brands deliver powerful digital experiences.\nOpportunity\nWe are seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable cloud platforms that enable client teams to ship faster and with confidence. You'll work embedded within cross-functional product teams-partnering with developers, DevOps engineers, security teams, and product leaders-to reduce deployment friction and improve platform reliability.\nAs a Platform Engineer (Consultant/Sr. Consultant), you take ownership of your platform deliverables, advise on architecture decisions, and help unblock teams. You design and implement cloud infrastructure, build deployment pipelines, operationalize observability, and contribute to platform security and compliance.Take on greater technical responsibility as you deepen your expertise. You'll work hands-on with AI infrastructure-deploying LLM applications, managing vector databases for RAG systems, securing agentic workflows, and integrating AI services into platform architecture. You'll also support teams adopting AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor) and ensure they're integrated safely into platform workflows. You'll own the operational and security posture of these systems, monitoring model performance, preventing prompt injection attacks, ensuring data governance, and helping teams scale AI reliably to production.\nThe Platform Engineer will work shoulder-to-shoulder with cross-capability teams to ensure resilient, scalable platform adoption across client environments. You'll also have opportunities to advise leadership on platform strategy and direction-helping shape how organizations modernize their infrastructure and scale their engineering practices.\nRequirements\n3-8 years hands-on platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or cloud engineering\nFamiliarity with LLM APIs, vector databases, or AI model serving\nFamiliarity with AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor)\nUnderstanding of AI security: prompt injection, data governance, model monitoring, output validation\nStrong proficiency supporting and building in one cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP)\nDeep experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, etc.)\nSolid understanding of Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD pipeline design\nHands-on deployment automation, observability, and incident response\nAbility to troubleshoot distributed systems and production issues; comfort with on-call\nClear communication; able to explain technical tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences\nScripting proficiency (Python, Bash, Go); Linux/Unix administration fundamentals\nVersion control (Git), collaboration workflows, and infrastructure automation\nKey Responsibilities & Deliverables\nDeploy, operate, and secure AI infrastructure (LLM serving, vector stores, agentic systems)\nWork with AI-assisted development tools and help teams integrate them safely into platforms \nAdvise on AI deployment patterns and operational best practices in integration reviews\nDesign, implement, and operate cloud architectures across dev, staging, and production\nBuild and maintain deployment pipelines, CI/CD automation, and infrastructure-as-code\nImplement observability systems (metrics, logging, tracing) for incident response\nManage cloud infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and security while optimizing for reliability, cost, and compliance\nMonitor and optimize cloud resources for cost and performance\nCollaborate with development, DevOps, and security teams on controls and best practices\nTroubleshoot platform issues, participate in incident response, and drive improvements\nCreate runbooks, architecture documentation, and troubleshooting guides\nReview infrastructure changes and contribute to architecture standards\nTune systems for latency, throughput, and resource efficiency\nTeam Collaboration\nAvailability for regular working sessions and discovery workshops with client teams.\nOverlap with client business hours daily is expected.\nReliable high-speed internet is a must.\nAbility to work independently while collaborating with client & Modus leaders\nDocumenting solutions, sharing learnings with the team, contributing to internal runbooks.\nPair program and collaborate on complex technical problems\nWelcome code and architecture reviews; 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