Senior Platform Engineer, Connectivity

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with operations team members and Principal and Staff Engineers to understand desired system level outcomes and operational requirements.
• Investigate, design, test, deploy and support core cloud platform components, including networking, security and resilience features, logging, monitoring, and infrastructure‑as‑code (IaC) features, to ensure success.
• Design and maintain automated delivery pipelines (Infrastructure as Code) to ensure repeatable, secure feature deployments.
• Manage scalable cloud network topologies, including transit gateways, VPCs, subnets, security groups, and route tables, ensuring low‑latency and secure communication between distributed services.
• Provide technical input and guidance regarding responsible components during planning and design sessions with Principal and Staff Engineers to ensure the success of the larger integrated system.
• Provide hands‑on technical contributions to the infrastructure design and deployment with a time allocation of approximately 80% on solving technical problems and 20% mentoring, coordinating with Staff and Principal Engineers, and supporting operations.
• Proactively identify repetitive manual tasks and engineer automated solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Act as the second escalation point for complex incidents, leading thorough root cause analysis (RCA) and implementing systemic, long‑term fixes.

• 5+ years in cloud operations, or Dev Ops, with a heavy focus on managing production workloads in mission‑critical environments.
• Advanced proficiency in AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM), Cloud Formation or Terraform, and CI/CD tools such as Git Hub Actions.
• Deep understanding of VPC design, subnetting, Route
  53, and VPN/Direct Connect configurations; experience troubleshooting complex connectivity issues across multi‑account or hybrid on‑prem/cloud environments.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of a problem and drive to deliver a delivered solution.
• Proficient in one or more software languages such as Node.js, Python, or Go.
• Strong experience with observability stacks (e.g., Splunk, Data Dog, or Cloud Watch) including logging, tracing, and metrics tuning.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen and able to obtain a DoD NIPR network account and Common Access Card (CAC).
• Must have, or be able to obtain, a Secret Clearance.
• You will be required to travel quarterly to Product Increment planning.

• Cloud operations
• Dev Ops
• AWS
• Cloud Formation
• Terraform
• CI/CD
• Node.js
• Python
• Go
• Observability stacks

• Collaboration
• Problem ownership
• Mentoring
• Technical guidance
• Root cause analysis

• Secret Clearance
• DoD NIPR network account
• Common Access Card (CAC)