Sr Platform Engineer (AWS)

Ledgebrook

3d • $150,000 - $200,000 • Remote

About The Position

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will work closely with the engineering team on cloud infrastructure reliability and scalability. You'll help streamline developer workflows and build self-service platform features that support engineering teams. You will identify infrastructure and process bottlenecks, improve deployment automation, and help maintain developer velocity so teams can ship reliable software efficiently.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Hands-on AWS expertise: Strong experience building and maintaining cloud infrastructure, including robust AWS networking (VPCs, subnets, routing).
• Production Kubernetes administration: Experience administering, scaling, and monitoring containerized environments.
• Advanced CI/CD automation: Proven expertise in building deployment pipelines using ArgoCD and GitHub Actions.
• Helm templating: Hands-on experience writing and modularizing Helm charts to package applications for developer self-service.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency in managing complex environments using Terraform.
• Service mesh networking: Experience configuring traffic routing, security policies, and observability using Istio.
• Strong communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Other cloud provider experience: Azure, GCP
• OPA Gatekeeper policies
• PostgreSQL
• Scripting: Python, Bash
• Atlantis
• Spacelift

Responsibilities

• Manage AWS Cloud Infrastructure: Contribute to our core AWS cloud environment. Architecting, securing, and maintaining highly available, cost-efficient infrastructure, including robust AWS networking configurations (VPCs, subnets, and route tables).
• Administer Kubernetes: Manage, optimize, and monitor our AWS Kubernetes clusters, ensuring robust container orchestration, healthy resource allocation, and smooth scaling.
• Automate Deployment Pipelines: Architect, implement, and maintain secure, reliable CI/CD pipelines using ArgoCD and GitHub Actions to automate software delivery.
• Empower Developer Self-Service: Write, modularize, and maintain Helm charts and platform templates to abstract infrastructure complexity and enable developers to deploy their applications independently.
• Optimize Network & Traffic Control: Configure and manage our service mesh architecture using Istio to ensure secure traffic flow, robust encryption, and advanced routing capabilities.
• Manage AWS Infrastructure as Code: Codify and maintain all cloud resources using Terraform, ensuring environment consistency across staging and production.

Benefits

• Full remote flexibility and asynchronous work culture.
• Unlimited PTO and fully paid sick leave.
• Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus HSA and FSA options.
• Additional financial protection and retirement benefits, including a 401(k), company-paid life insurance, and disability coverage.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed