Senior Platform Engineer (12 Month FTC)

Job summary

The Senior Platform Engineer will provide technical leadership in shaping and scaling the clients' cloud platform, focusing on establishing robust platform capabilities and self-service solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience in designing and operating internal developer platforms at scale.
• Ability to build reusable platform services and self-service capabilities.
• Knowledge of platform-as-a-product principles.
• Experience in designing highly available and resilient cloud-native architectures.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automated cloud provisioning.
• Knowledge of CI/CD and automated software delivery.
• Experience in designing platforms for resilience and operational excellence.
• Ability to provide technical leadership across engineering teams.
• Experience in mentoring engineers and fostering technical excellence.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for an AWS cloud platform.
• Design and build scalable, secure, resilient, and reusable platform capabilities.
• Develop self-service tooling and services to improve developer productivity.
• Drive automation across infrastructure and application delivery.
• Establish and promote platform standards and best practices.
• Improve reliability, scalability, performance, and operational efficiency.
• Identify opportunities to reduce engineering friction and accelerate software delivery.
• Establish engineering principles that enable teams to move quickly while maintaining security and governance.
• Lead complex platform initiatives from design through implementation.
• Influence teams on platform strategy and architectural decisions.
• Mentor engineers and promote strong platform engineering practices.
• Champion a culture of automation and continuous improvement.

Skills

Relocation