Platform Engineer job description

Job brief

We are seeking a highly skilled Platform Engineer to join our infrastructure team and lead the evolution of our internal development ecosystem. You will be responsible for architecting and managing our multi-cloud infrastructure, ensuring our developers have the seamless tooling and automation they need to ship production code with confidence. This is a high-impact role where your contributions directly influence the scalability of our applications and the efficiency of our engineering organization. If you are passionate about DevOps culture, distributed systems, and modernizing cloud architecture, we would love to have you on our team.

What is a Platform Engineer?

A Platform Engineer is a specialized software professional who designs, builds, and maintains the internal developer platforms that power organizational productivity. By abstracting away infrastructure complexity, a Platform Engineer enables development teams to deploy code more reliably using technologies like Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud-native services. Their primary focus is to bridge the gap between operations and software engineering, creating standardized, self-service tools that enhance system reliability, security, and developer experience.

What does a Platform Engineer do?

A Platform Engineer focuses on building robust infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solutions and automating deployment workflows to eliminate manual bottlenecks. They spend their time designing Kubernetes clusters, managing container orchestration, implementing CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins or GitHub Actions, and refining observability setups with tools like Prometheus or Grafana. By acting as a force multiplier for software teams, a Platform Engineer ensures that the underlying platform is secure, scalable, and resilient enough to support rapid feature delivery across complex cloud environments.

Key responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable infrastructure-as-code modules using Terraform or Pulumi to automate provisioning across cloud environments like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Architect and manage high-availability Kubernetes clusters, optimizing resource allocation and container orchestration to support large-scale microservices deployments.
• Develop and improve automated CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI to ensure rapid, secure, and repeatable code delivery cycles.
• Implement comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions using Datadog, Prometheus, or ELK Stack to proactively maintain system health and performance.
• Collaborate with backend and frontend engineering teams to establish standardized deployment patterns, service meshes, and security best practices.
• Perform capacity planning and performance tuning for distributed databases and storage systems, identifying bottlenecks and scaling resources to meet demand.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis for infrastructure-related outages, implementing long-term technical debt reduction and system resiliency measures.
• Document system architecture, API definitions, and operational playbooks to foster a culture of knowledge sharing and technical transparency across teams.

Requirements and skills

• Expertise in managing large-scale containerized environments utilizing Docker and Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, or AKS) for production workloads.
• Proven proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools including Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible for configuration management and automation.
• Strong command of at least one scripting or programming language such as Go, Python, or Bash, used for automating administrative tasks.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD methodologies and experience building resilient deployment workflows using Jenkins, CircleCI, or GitHub Actions.
• Solid experience with cloud networking, security, and identity management policies (IAM, VPCs, Firewalls) within an AWS, Azure, or GCP framework.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience in a high-growth DevOps or SRE role.
• Industry-recognized certifications such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer are strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical infrastructure requirements into clear, actionable architectural documentation for cross-functional stakeholders.

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