Senior Platform Engineer (Remote / Contract)

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
• Architect, 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
• 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: AWS - EKS, ECS, RDS (MySQL, PostgresSQL, Redis, Elasticache, CodePipeline); GCP - GKE, BigQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Functions, Cloud Build

Preferred Skills And Experience

• Preferred: Experience with Kubernetes in production environments (GKE)
• Preferred: Strong Terraform skills — module authoring and IaC architecture, not just usage
• Preferred: Solid understanding of cloud networking, IAM, and security across GCP
• Preferred: Demonstrated ability to work independently on complex, ambiguous problems
• Preferred: Experience mentoring engineers and influencing platform culture

Pay

$40 - $75 USD hourly

Schedule

Contract role, can work remotely anywhere in the US or outside of the US