Senior Platform Engineer

We are seeking a Senior / Lead Platform Engineer to design build and evolve a highly scalable secure and reliable cloud platform powering large-scale consumer-facing applications. This role will lead the development of our internal platform capabilities enabling engineering teams to deliver software rapidly and safely through standardized self-service infrastructure CI/CD and runtime services.

This position combines deep hands-on engineering with technical leadership focusing on Azure-native architectures Kubernetes (AKS) GitOps (FluxCD) Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and modern web delivery technologies. Our Platform Engineers play a critical role in building the internal systems and automation that enable fast reliable software delivery while abstracting infrastructure complexity from product teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Platform Architecture: Build and operate multi-region AKS platforms for high-availability consumer-facing workloads
• Infrastructure as Code: Develop and maintain Terraform modules for Azure (AKS networking App Gateway API Management)
• Kubernetes: Own AKS lifecycle (scaling upgrades networking security platform standards)
• CI/CD & GitOps: Implement GitHub Actions pipelines and FluxCD-based deployments
• Web Delivery: Optimize Front Door CDN ingress WAF and traffic routing for performance and resilience
• Reliability: Define SLOs improve observability and lead incident response and root cause analysis
• Platform Security Engineering: Embed Zero Trust workload identities secrets management supply chain security container security and policy-driven guardrails.
• Leadership: Mentor engineers and define platform standards and roadmap. Champion cloud technologies by leading learning sessions and outreach within the organization
• Platform as a Product: Build and manage the platform as an internal product focused on developer adoption business growth self-service capabilities and measurable business outcomes
• Governance & Policy as Code: Automate compliance security standards tagging networking and operational guardrails through Azure Policy OPA and similar frameworks
• AI-Enabled Platform Engineering: Leverage AI-assisted operations GitHub Copilot governance automation and platform intelligence while maintaining strong operational controls and human oversight.

Qualifications :

• 5 years in Platform Engineering / SRE / DevOps
• Strong Azure expertise (AKS networking App Gateway / Front Door)
• Deep Kubernetes experience
• Hands-on Terraform (IaC) experience
• Experience with GitHub GitHub Actions
• Experience with FluxCD or similar GitOps tools
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and high availability

Preferred

• Experience with high-traffic consumer platforms
• Observability tools (Splunk Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry)
• Event-driven systems (Service Bus Kafka)
• Experience with multi-region / multi-cluster architectures
• Exposure to FinOps and cost optimization

Additional Information :

Benefits:
    Paid Holidays and Vacation 
    Medical Dental & Vision benefits that start on the first day of employment
    No-cost mental health support for employee and dependents
    Childcare tuition discounts
    No-cost fitness nutrition and wellness programs 
    Fertility benefits
    Adoption assistance
    401k matching contributions 
    15% off the purchase price of stock 
    Company bonus 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time