Platform Automation Engineer
NinjaHoldings•Chicago, IL
•Remote
About The Position
Platform Engineers in this role are part of the Operations department and are primarily focused on designing, developing, and automating cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. The engineer will work closely with Software and Risk Engineering teams across NinjaHoldings’ brands to streamline environments and deployment processes. Successful candidates are motivated self-starters with a proven track record of using modern technology and software engineering practices to design and deploy robust, cloud-native solutions at scale.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of technical experience in an engineering organization.
- Extensive experience building highly available, fault-tolerant cloud-based systems.
- Excellent technical understanding of distributed system design and development.
- Experience implementing automated CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and infrastructure as code (IaC).
- Experience in container-based architectures using Kubernetes.
- Solid fluency in Linux-based environments and network engineering.
- Demonstrated excellence in multiple programming languages.
- Excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- Experience setting up modern three-tier web application platforms on AWS.
- Experience with Ruby, Python, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and/or Kubeflow.
- Experience with multiple SQL and NoSQL database technology stacks.
- Interest in AI technologies and experience supporting or enabling their adoption across engineering and business teams.
- Excellent technical understanding of modern web application development practices.
- Passion for security, observability, and failover.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain automation for managing scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure.
- Automate infrastructure lifecycle management, including upgrades, dependency management, security patching, and vulnerability remediation.
- Identify and eliminate repetitive manual processes through automation to improve operational efficiency, consistency, and reliability.
- Collaborate with engineering and business teams to improve platform capabilities, enable emerging technologies, and document technical solutions.
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off.
- Health benefits with generous medical, dental, and vision insurance plans.
- 401(k) with matching contribution.
- Paid family leave.
- Annual wellness and work-from-home subsidies.
- Employee referral program.
- Remote-first culture with a convenient downtown office.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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