Platform Engineer
QODE · Jackson, NJ · 3 days ago
EngineeringFull-time
About the role
The Incedo Cloud Platform team is committed to delivering best-in-class DevSecOps capabilities and an exceptional developer experience. You will play a key technical role in shaping our internal cloud platform, driving strategic automation, and modernizing our continuous delivery practices to scale Incedo's cloud-based services.
Responsibilities
- Lead the implementation of modern tools and strategies to transform Incedo's internal cloud infrastructure platform. This includes hands-on work with advanced Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) technologies across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
- Play a key role in enabling AI-driven enterprise solutions by building scalable, secure, and highly automated cloud platforms and engineering processes.
- Contribute to designing, implementing, and supporting cloud infrastructure, DevSecOps practices, and platform engineering solutions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to improve platform reliability, developer experience, automation, security, and operational excellence while ensuring highly available cloud services.
- Design and implement zero-downtime deployment and maintenance strategies for Kubernetes clusters and cloud infrastructure.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend modern DevOps tools and engineering best practices.
- Mentor junior engineers and promote engineering excellence across teams.
- Enable engineering teams by providing reusable platform services, automation, and operational best practices.
- Collaborate with Security teams to integrate security controls and DevSecOps best practices into infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
- Document technical designs, architecture, operational procedures, and platform standards.
- Promote a culture of innovation, collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement across the organization.
- Eliminate operational toil by automating manual processes using modern tooling, AI-powered solutions, and agentic workflows.
- Participate in a 12-hour on-call rotation to support production systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3–10 years of experience as a Cloud Engineer, Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), or similar role.
- Strong experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Crossplane, Helm Charts, or AWS CloudFormation.
- Experience with one or more cloud platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Proficiency in scripting or programming languages such as Go, Python, or Bash.
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional teams.
- Proven experience implementing DevOps best practices and driving automation initiatives.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, or Datadog.
- Knowledge of cloud security best practices, IAM, compliance frameworks, and DevSecOps principles.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
- Experience supporting cloud-native or SaaS platforms at scale.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools, automation frameworks, and agentic workflows is a plus.