Platform Engineer | Cloud Platform Specialist
Role Overview
The employer seeks an infrastructure-focused Platform Engineer and Cloud Platform Specialist to design, build, maintain, and optimize cloud platforms and internal infrastructure.
The role works with Software Engineering, DevOps, Security, and IT teams to improve reliability, automation, deployment efficiency, security, and developer experience.
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Role overview
The employer seeks an infrastructure-focused Platform Engineer and Cloud Platform Specialist to design, build, maintain, and optimize cloud platforms and internal infrastructure.
The role works with Software Engineering, DevOps, Security, and IT teams to improve reliability, automation, deployment efficiency, security, and developer experience.
Platform engineering responsibilities
- Design and maintain scalable cloud platforms, infrastructure environments, and secure platform services.
- Manage AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or hybrid infrastructure.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code; build CI/CD pipelines and reusable infrastructure components.
- Automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, monitoring, and operations.
- Manage Docker and Kubernetes environments, including clusters, workloads, networking, storage, and security.
- Establish platform standards and engineering best practices; monitor availability, performance, capacity, reliability, and utilization.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, application-platform, and deployment issues; implement observability for logs, metrics, traces, alerts, and system health.
- Improve developer workflows and build self-service tools and platform capabilities.
- Support application modernization, cloud migration, and digital transformation.
- Design highly available, fault-tolerant, disaster-resilient infrastructure and implement backup, recovery, and business continuity.
- Work with Cybersecurity teams on cloud controls, identity and access, secrets, encryption, network security, and infrastructure policies.
- Support compliance, cloud governance, cost optimization, capacity planning, incident response, root-cause analysis, documentation, upgrades, and reliability metrics.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- Previous experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or a similar role.
- Strong experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud and understanding of cloud architecture, networking, compute, storage, databases, and security services.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or equivalent technologies.
- Strong experience with CI/CD tools and modern software delivery practices.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, or other container technologies.
- Strong understanding of Linux and system administration.
- Knowledge of DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, load balancing, firewalls, VPNs, and routing.
- Experience implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions.
- Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or similar platforms is advantageous.
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