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Senior​/Infrastructure – Platform Engineer

Job in Santa Clara, Santa Clara County, California, 95053, USA
Listing for: Jobtailor
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-09
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    SRE/Site Reliability, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Systems Engineer, IT Infrastructure
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 170000 - 250000 USD Yearly USD 170000.00 250000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Senior/Staff Infrastructure – Platform Engineer
  • Design, build, and operate scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure across cloud, Kubernetes, on-premises, and hybrid environments
  • Identify complex infrastructure and engineering productivity challenges and drive solutions from problem definition through architecture, implementation, and production
  • Build and improve internal developer platforms, tools, and services
  • Design, build, and optimize CI/CD platforms and pipelines
  • Automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, testing, monitoring, and operational workflows
  • Improve developer experience across the software lifecycle with engineering teams
  • Develop reusable Infrastructure as Code, automation, and platform capabilities
  • Build systems with reliability, observability, resilience, security, and disaster recovery capabilities
  • Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and platform issues; participate in incident response and root-cause analysis
  • Evaluate technologies and architectural approaches and establish infrastructure standards and best practices
  • Lead technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams and contribute to infrastructure and developer productivity strategy
Requirements
  • 6+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, software engineering, SRE, Dev Ops, or related fields
  • Strong programming and software engineering fundamentals with experience developing production-quality tools and services
  • Deep production Kubernetes experience, including troubleshooting complex environments
  • Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and/or on-premises infrastructure; self-managed or bare-metal
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar technologies
  • Experience designing and improving CI/CD platforms and deployment automation
  • Strong understanding of Linux, networking, distributed systems, and infrastructure architecture
  • Strong experience with server provisioning, configuration management, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management
  • Hands‑on experience with Ansible, Chef, or similar configuration management and automation technologies
  • Strong programming skills in at least one language such as Go, Python, Rust, or C++
  • Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and reliability engineering practices
  • Ability to lead complex technical initiatives, evaluate tradeoffs, and drive scalable, maintainable solutions through production
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and cross‑functional teams
  • Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of hire
  • Candidates must have a minimum of 24 months of current U.S. work authorization remaining without employer sponsorship
  • Nice-to-have qualifications include internal developer platforms, on-premises/private-cloud/bare-metal Kubernetes, Kubernetes operators/controllers, productivity or reliability metrics, Kubernetes CNI/CSI, distributed technologies, Jenkins, VPN, SSO, infrastructure security, network infrastructure, hardware/server provisioning, data center operations, and enterprise customer deployment experience
Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in designing and operating scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure across cloud and hybrid environments, with a strong focus on automation, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code. Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and improve developer experience through effective collaboration and problem-solving.

Highest-signal resume keywords
  • Kubernetes Expertise
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
  • CI/CD Platform Design and Automation
  • Cloud Infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Strong Programming Skills (Go, Python, Rust, C++)
ATS Optimization Keywords
Hard Skills
  • Infrastructure Engineering
  • Platform Engineering
  • Software Engineering
  • Dev Ops Practices
  • Configuration Management
  • Server Provisioning
  • Monitoring and Observability
  • Distributed Systems
  • Networking
  • Disaster Recovery
Soft Skills
  • Strong Communication
  • Collaboration Skills
  • Problem-Solving
Industry Keywords
  • Infrastructure Standards
  • Best Practices
  • Incident Response
  • Root-Cause Analysis
  • Developer Platforms
  • Private Cloud
  • Bare-Metal
  • Productivity Metrics
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Data Center Operations
Tools & Technologies
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Chef
  • Jenkins
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Linux
  • VPN
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Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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