Senior Platform Engineer

Job summary

Optix is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the evolution of their infrastructure and platform, transitioning from a legacy model to a modern, resilient system.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering experience
• Deep AWS expertise across compute, networking, storage, and security
• Proven CI/CD pipeline ownership in a multi-repo environment
• Hands-on experience with container orchestration using ECS or Kubernetes
• Experience building and maintaining multi-tier environment models
• Hands-on experience with observability tooling and on-call incident management
• Ability to read and reason across application codebases in multiple languages
• Strong documentation habits
• Comfort with Git, Linux, Docker, and infrastructure as code
• Clear communicator who can translate infrastructure decisions for engineering and leadership audiences
• Legacy modernization experience with API migrations and frontend upgrades (nice to have)
• PHP/Laravel and Vue.js familiarity (nice to have)

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve AWS infrastructure for reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, evolving toward a QA-gated continuous delivery model
• Lead implementation of a three-tier environment model
• Establish and own observability stack including monitoring, alerting, and on-call rotation
• Define and lead incident response processes
• Contribute to technical debt strategy
• Work AI-first in day-to-day execution
• Support engineering teams with environment-related needs
• Participate in sprint rituals and contribute to a collaborative team environment
• Contribute to a team culture of empathy and mutual support

Skills

Relocation