Platform & Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities

• Hybrid Infrastructure
• Deploy and maintain on-premises compute, storage, and networking infrastructure alongside AWS environment
• Provision bare metal servers and deploy operating systems
• Support day-to-day network operations: troubleshoot connectivity issues, manage firewall rules, VLANs, and VPN configurations
• Maintain and document storage systems and cloud connectivity configurations
• Write and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible for both on-prem and cloud resources
• Support CI/CD pipeline maintenance and onboard teams to existing platform tooling
• Aid in Kubernetes cluster operations: deployments, troubleshooting, resource management
• Contribute automation scripts and tooling improvements in Python or Bash
• Automation & Platform Support
• Collaborate with senior engineers and application teams to understand infrastructure needs
• Create and maintain automation scripts and tooling improvements in Python or Bash
• Contribute to monitoring dashboards and alert configuration across hybrid environments
• Security & Reliability
• Follow established security standards for on-prem and cloud environments
• Apply patches, support access management processes, and maintain RBAC configurations
• Participate in on-call rotation and help investigate and resolve infrastructure incidents
• Contribute to monitoring dashboards and alert configuration across hybrid environments
• Collaboration
• Work closely with senior engineers and application teams
• Keep runbooks, wikis, and operational documentation current
• Flag issues, ambiguities, and potential improvements

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering, systems administration, or a related role
• At least one full-time industry role beyond your first job (internships and co-ops count toward the foundation, but we're looking for professional experience in a production environment)
• Comfortable with Linux system administration: file systems, networking, process management, bash scripting
• Hands-on experience with at least one IaC tool — Terraform or Ansible preferred
• Working knowledge of AWS fundamentals: EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, and basic networking concepts
• Basic networking understanding: IP addressing, DNS, VLANs, firewalls
• Experience with or exposure to Kubernetes — doesn't need to be bare metal, but you should understand the basics of pods, deployments, and services
• Scripting ability in Python or Bash for automation tasks

Nice to Have

• Exposure to physical infrastructure: data center work, homelab, or on-prem environments in a professional setting
• Familiarity with configuration management tools (Ansible, Salt, or similar)
• Exposure to AWS certification (any level) or in-progress certification
• Experience with observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or ELK