Senior Platform Engineer

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential technology organization seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to architect and scale an Internal Developer Platform (IDP). This is a fully remote role open to candidates worldwide.

Our client treats platform engineering as a product discipline—building self-service infrastructure abstractions, automated CI/CD capabilities, and guardrails that enable application teams to ship code safely, independently, and rapidly.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain self-service platform tools and developer portals that enable product teams to independently provision infrastructure, manage environments, and deploy services
• Maintain robust, automated GitOps delivery pipelines using ArgoCD or Flux, establishing safe deployment practices including canary releases, blue-green deployments, and automated rollbacks
• Maintain cluster health, upgrade lifecycles, autoscaling policies, and security policies across multi-region Kubernetes deployments
• Write production-grade Go or Python code to build custom Kubernetes operators, CLI utilities, and API automation to streamline developer workflows
• Establish platform-wide SLI/SLO tracking, implement centralized logging and tracing infrastructure, and enforce automated security and cost-compliance policies across environments

What We're Looking For

Required qualifications:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in platform engineering, site reliability engineering (SRE), or core DevOps, with a proven track record of designing and delivering Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs)
• Expert-level mastery of Kubernetes administration, custom controller/operator architectures, service meshes (Istio or Linkerd), and continuous delivery via GitOps tools (ArgoCD or Flux)
• Deep proficiency using Terraform, OpenTofu, or Pulumi to construct modular, reusable infrastructure blueprints across cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Strong programming skills in Go or Python to build custom platform extensions, CLI tools, Kubernetes operators, and API integrations
• Practical experience building or integrating developer portals (e.g., Backstage, Port) and automated workflow engines to abstract infrastructure complexity
• Hands-on experience establishing end-to-end telemetry standards using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry for metric, log, and trace aggregation

Nice-to-have experience:

• Cloud-native control plane abstractions like Crossplane
• FinOps practices, container cost monitoring (e.g., Kubecost), and automated resource optimization
• Active contributions to open-source cloud-native projects (CNCF ecosystem)
• Zero-trust security controls, secrets management (HashiCorp Vault), and compliance automation

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our recruiting team will personally review your background and conduct an initial screening conversation. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your profile to our client for consideration. Throughout the interview process, we'll provide guidance and feedback.

Important: Please apply only through Get A Job.ai. Do not attempt to contact the client directly, as all applications must come through our formal channel.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process based on experience level and location.

Equal Opportunity: Get A Job.ai is committed to inclusive hiring practices and provides equal employment opportunity to all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.