Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Summary

Responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure. Focus on platform enablement, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, event-driven streaming, and operational excellence across multi-account AWS environments — empowering engineering teams through self‑service tooling and reliable, well‑governed cloud foundations.

• Design and operate scalable, highly available, multi‑account cloud infrastructure (AWS).
• Build and maintain Infrastructure‑as‑Code modules and standards using Terraform.
• Develop reusable platform patterns, landing zones, and golden paths for engineering teams.
• Optimize and operate CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, Harness).
• Enable developer self‑service and reduce manual intervention through automation.
• Manage Kubernetes platforms (EKS) — networking, scaling, upgrades, and workload onboarding.
• Operate and support Kafka‑based event streaming platforms — topics, schemas, connectors, and cluster reliability.
• Build and integrate REST APIs and self‑service tooling to streamline platform workflows.
• Implement cloud security and governance (IAM, OAuth/OIDC, OKTA, SSL/TLS, secrets management).
• Drive cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, and Fin Ops practices.
• Implement observability — metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and SLOs.
• Lead incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis across platform and runtime systems.
• Partner with application teams to troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment, and runtime issues.
• Drive continuous improvement using operational insights and user feedback.
• Enhance documentation, runbooks, and platform usability.

• Strong troubleshooting and problem‑solving across distributed systems.
• Ability to translate operational issues into durable platform improvements.
• Systems‑thinking approach to reliability, security, and cost.
• Effective collaboration and technical mentorship across engineering teams.

• Cloud: AWS (EKS, EC2, VPC/Networking, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda).
• IaC:
  Terraform (modules, state management, policy‑as‑code).
• CI/CD:
  Git Hub Actions, Harness.
• APIs & Integration: REST APIs (design, development, integration), Async APIs.
• Containers & Orchestration:
  Docker, Kubernetes (EKS).
• Security: OAuth, OIDC, OKTA, SSL/TLS, IAM, secrets management.

• Event Streaming:
  Kafka, Confluent (topics, schemas, Kafka Connect, cluster linking).
• Monitoring/Observability:
  Datadog, Cloud Watch.
• Programming/Scripting:
  Java/Python.

Details regarding benefits are typically discussed during the hiring process and may include health insurance, retirement plans, and other perks.