Senior Platform Engineer
Responsibilities
- Own and optimize Kubernetes clusters (GKE) at scale, including networking, autoscaling, and cost efficiency
- Lead the design and implementation of infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), establishing reusable patterns and enforcing standards across teams
- Arcitect, implement, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD) with a focus on reliability, security, and developer experience
- Design and maintain Helm charts for applications and services across multiple environments
- Drive platform reliability — owning scalability, availability, and disaster recovery strategy (load balancing, auto-scaling, multi-region resilience)
- Define and implement observability standards across metrics, logging, and tracing (Grafana, New Relic, OpenTelemetry)
- Serve as a technical lead during incidents on primary revenue-generating applications, owning resolution and contributing to post-mortems
- Mentor engineers across the team and act as a trusted advisor to development teams on infrastructure best practices, security standards, and platform adoption
- Contribute to the team’s on-call rotation with a proactive, systems-thinking approach
Requirements
- 7+ years of relevant platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering experience
- Deep hands-on expertise with Kubernetes in production environments (GKE)
- Strong Terraform skills — module authoring and IaC architecture, not just usage
- Experience with GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipeline design at scale
- Solid understanding of cloud networking, IAM, and security across GCP
- Demonstrated ability to work independently on complex, ambiguous problems
- Experience mentoring engineers and influencing platform culture
Qualifications
- Programming Languages: Ruby/Rails, Elixir, Python, JavaScript (jQuery, AngularJS, Vue.js)
- Cloud Platforms: GCP - GKE, BigQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Functions, Cloud Build, AWS - EKS, ECS, RDS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, CodePipeline)
Benefits
Health, dental, and vision insurance, plus mental health resources
401(k) match and generous PTO
Hybrid work environment (NYC office)
Free lunch for onsite team members in NYC
Volunteer Opportunities
Opportunities for professional development in a high-growth ad tech company
Greater NY-area Residents: We currently have a hybrid remote work policy. All Jun Group employees living within a 90-minute (one way) commute of our NYC office are expected to be in the office three days per week.
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