Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design and operate scalable, highly available, multi-account cloud infrastructure (AWS).
• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code modules and standards using Terraform.
• Develop reusable platform patterns, landing zones, and golden paths for engineering teams.
• Optimize and operate CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Harness).
• Enable developer self-service and reduce manual intervention through automation.
• Manage Kubernetes platforms (EKS) — networking, scaling, upgrades, and workload onboarding.
• Operate and support Kafka-based event streaming platforms — topics, schemas, connectors, and cluster reliability.
• Build and integrate REST APIs and self-service tooling to streamline platform workflows.
• Implement cloud security and governance (IAM, OAuth/OIDC, OKTA, SSL/TLS, secrets management).
• Drive cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, and FinOps practices.
• Implement observability — metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and SLOs.
• Lead incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis across platform and runtime systems.
• Partner with application teams to troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment, and runtime issues.
• Drive continuous improvement using operational insights and user feedback.
• Enhance documentation, runbooks, and platform usability.

Requirements

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving across distributed systems.
• Ability to translate operational issues into durable platform improvements.
• Systems-thinking approach to reliability, security, and cost.
• Effective collaboration and technical mentorship across engineering teams.

Required Skills

• Cloud: AWS (EKS, EC2, VPC/Networking, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda).
• IaC: Terraform (modules, state management, policy-as-code).
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Harness.
• APIs & Integration: REST APIs (design, development, integration), Async APIs.
• Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS).
• Security: OAuth, OIDC, OKTA, SSL/TLS, IAM, secrets management.

Preferred Skills

• Event Streaming: Kafka, Confluent (topics, schemas, Kafka Connect, cluster linking).
• Messaging: RabbitMQ.
• Monitoring/Observability: Datadog, CloudWatch.
• Programming/Scripting: Java/Python.