Associate Platform Engineer

Job summary

Supports the design, development, and maintenance of cloud infrastructure that enables software teams to build, test, and deploy applications. Responsibilities include infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, incident response, disaster recovery, and security, with opportunities to improve system performance and cloud costs. The role collaborates with development, operations, and security teams and uses container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or ACA, as well as generative AI tools such as Claude and Copilot.

Qualifications

• At least one year of professional engineering or IT operations experience with exposure to cloud infrastructure
• Basic understanding of cloud platforms
• Familiarity with scripting languages and version control systems
• Exposure to infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD tools
• Basic understanding of containerization and orchestration concepts, such as ECS, ACA, Kubernetes, or Docker
• Familiarity with Agile frameworks
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Willingness to learn and adopt new technologies
• Experience using generative AI tools such as Claude and Copilot
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Software Development, or a related field

Responsibilities

• Maintain and monitor cloud infrastructure for scalability, resilience, and efficiency
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code to provision and manage cloud resources
• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines and automate repetitive tasks
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and log-retention solutions
• Perform system maintenance, updates, and patches according to security schedules and standards
• Respond to support tickets, Tier 2 escalations, and alerts under appropriate guidance
• Contribute to product and hosting triage runbooks
• Assist with root cause analysis and incident documentation
• Support disaster recovery testing and verify backup software and configurations
• Identify opportunities to improve performance, resource utilization, and infrastructure costs
• Support security controls, including firewalls, access controls, and encryption
• Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams
• Document procedures, workflows, configurations, and changes in accordance with Secure SDLC and Agile practices
• Participate in code reviews, paired programming, training, and knowledge sharing
• Contribute to projects with support from experienced peers
• Participate in the Tier 2 on-call rotation
• Use Claude and Copilot to improve productivity and solution delivery

Skills

Degrees

Work schedule

Relocation