Platform Engineer

Accountabilities: As a Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and continuously improving cloud infrastructure while ensuring operational excellence, security, and scalability. Analyze technical and business requirements to design and deliver cloud infrastructure solutions that meet performance, availability, security, and operational objectives. Deploy, maintain, monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize cloud infrastructure and services, ensuring reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency. Investigate and resolve infrastructure and application incidents, recurring issues, and performance problems through root cause analysis and corrective actions. Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC), reusable modules, automation solutions, and scripts using Terraform, Python, shell scripting, YAML, and JSON. Implement and support DevOps tools, source control practices, and CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, testing, and deployment. Manage infrastructure lifecycle activities, including upgrades, migrations, deployments, patching, backup and recovery, and environment maintenance. Apply security, configuration, change management, and operational standards to maintain secure, compliant, and reliable infrastructure environments. Collaborate with application development, infrastructure, security, and support teams, as well as external vendors and stakeholders, to deliver effective technology solutions. Create and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, standards, procedures, and work instructions while sharing knowledge and best practices. Evaluate emerging cloud, automation, DevOps, and observability technologies and recommend improvements to enhance efficiency, reliability, security, and scalability. Participate in on-call rotations and respond to infrastructure-related incidents and service disruptions when required. Requirements The ideal candidate brings extensive hands-on infrastructure and cloud engineering experience, strong automation capabilities, and the ability to independently manage complex technical challenges in production environments. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience. 7+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, systems administration, cloud engineering, or a related technical discipline, preferably supporting production environments in AWS. 3+ years of experience in platform engineering and DevOps. Experience implementing and supporting monitoring, logging, and observability solutions such as Datadog or comparable platforms. Strong knowledge of Linux system configuration, troubleshooting, patching, and performance analysis. Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure automation, particularly Terraform. Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, and Rancher. Practical experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools such as GitLab and Artifactory or equivalent solutions. Working knowledge of Git and source control practices, including branching, versioning, and peer-review workflows. Experience monitoring cloud infrastructure, troubleshooting production incidents, conducting root cause analysis, and providing operational support. Understanding of cloud and infrastructure security principles, including identity and access management, network security, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and least-privilege practices. Experience with automated testing or infrastructure validation frameworks is an advantage. Previous experience in a SaaS-based product development environment is preferred. Relevant certifications in AWS, cloud technologies, cybersecurity, Kubernetes, or Infrastructure as Code are considered a plus. Benefits Competitive annual base salary ranging from $104,934 to $164,896. Final compensation determined by job-related knowledge, skills, education, professional experience, geographic location, certifications, and other relevant factors. Opportunity to work on cloud infrastructure supporting a next-generation healthcare technology platform. Hands-on ownership of impactful infrastructure initiatives and opportunities to influence platform architecture and reliability. Exposure to modern cloud technologies, automation frameworks, container orchestration, and DevOps practices. Collaborative environment working alongside infrastructure, engineering, product, and security professionals. Opportunities to develop technical expertise and contribute to continuous platform innovation.