Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

About Us

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As an employer, we are committed to rewarding our people fairly and developing them in their careers.

About the Role

As a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, you will design, build, and maintain the scalable infrastructure that powers our services. You are a specialist in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation, ensuring our cloud ecosystems are secure, cost-effective, and highly resilient.

Our Platform Engineering Culture

• Customer Obsession: We don't build tech for tech's sake; we build to empower our developers and deliver value to our end users.
• Psychological Safety: We foster an environment where everyone feels safe to voice concerns and challenge the status quo. We embrace fail-safe engineering and prioritize learning from failures through a strictly blameless culture.
• Practical Integrity: We "do the next right thing" by prioritizing long-term platform health over quick fixes, while remaining pragmatic about delivery timelines.
• Constructive Transparency: We value honest feedback and open communication as the primary drivers of business success and operational reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure as Code: Architect and manage cloud environments using Terraform and Python to ensure repeatable and version-controlled deployments.
• Workload Portability: Leverage Kubernetes (K8s) and Helm charts to build an open, stable application platform that ensures consistent performance and operational flexibility across different environments.
• CI/CD Leadership: Maintain and optimize automated workflows via GitHub to ensure high-velocity engineering.
• Operational Excellence: Provide expert-level management of AWS infrastructure while ensuring technical standards are compatible with diverse architectural requirements.
• Security & FinOps: Implement "Security by Design" principles and proactively optimize cloud spend to balance performance with cost-efficiency.
• Availability & Reliability: Participate in a shared on-call rotation to support critical production infrastructure, ensuring high uptime and rapid incident response.

Required Qualifications

• Core Tools: Minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience with Terraform, GitHub, and Python.
• Cloud Platforms: Extensive experience with AWS (Required); a strong understanding of building flexible, adaptable infrastructure patterns.
• Containerization: Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes (K8s) focusing on platform stability and standardized deployment strategies.
• Agile Mindset: Deep familiarity with Agile and Scrum methodologies.
• Incident Management: Experience using Jira Service Management (JSM) for tracking incidents and maintaining post-mortem documentation.
• Experience: 5+ years total in a DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering role.

Skills

Distributed Platforms, Operational Excellence, Kubernetes, Requirement Specification, AWS, Platform Modernization, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Workflow Development, incident management tool, Cloud Cost Optimization, Containerization, Software Development Lifecycle, Incident Handling, Deployment Automation, GitHub, Agile & Waterfall Methodologies