Staff Platform Engineer - Platform Infrastructure (all genders)
Summary
The Staff Platform Engineer will architect and maintain AWS infrastructure, manage Kubernetes clusters, and automate CI/CD pipelines to ensure high availability. The role involves partnering with internal development teams to drive operational excellence using tools like Terraform, GitLab CI, and Datadog.
Job Description
- Architect and evolve: Maintain and continuously improve our AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), focusing on engineering a robust, secure, and cost-efficient environment
- Drive automation: Automate and advance our CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows (GitLab CI, Terraform) to ensure a smooth, reliable, and secure path to production for all services
- Ownership: Take full ownership of critical platform components running on Kubernetes, including scaling strategies, secrets management, and core networking (VPC, ingress)
- Ensure availability: Design, implement and maintain comprehensive observability solutions (monitoring, alerting, and logging using Datadog, Opensearch, and fluentd) to guarantee the platform's flawless, uninterrupted 24/7 availability
- Partner and enable: Act as an autonomous partner and expert consultant to internal development teams, treating them as key customers and collaboratively driving operational excellence across the organization