Senior Platform Engineer

Victory Live • Atlanta, GA

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About The Position

Victory Live is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, manage, and optimize the organization’s cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure. This hybrid role combines DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering responsibilities, ensuring fast, reliable, and scalable delivery of software and services. The Senior Platform Engineer will manage EKS and AKS clusters, maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, and implement monitoring and observability with Datadog to drive system reliability and operational excellence

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with both AWS and Azure services.
• Expertise in managing EKS and AKS Kubernetes clusters in production.
• Demonstrated expertise in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with leading platforms including Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Semaphore CI, and Jenkins to ensure reliable, automated software delivery.
• Proficiency with monitoring and observability tools, preferably Datadog.
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, or PowerShell).
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Bicep, or CloudFormation).
• Solid understanding of networking, security, and system architecture in cloud environments.
• Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, and incident response skills.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering and IT teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure for scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Operate and optimize EKS and AKS Kubernetes clusters, including scaling, upgrades, and workload management.
• Develop, manage, and improve CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps and/or GitHub to accelerate software delivery.
• Implement and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting using Datadog, Elastic and Grafana to proactively detect and resolve issues.
• Drive automation and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) initiatives using Terraform.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve deployment reliability, system performance, and operational processes.
• Participate in incident response, on-call rotations, and disaster recovery planning.
• Promote security best practices across cloud environments, including IAM, networking, and compliance.

What This Job Offers

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