Platform Engineer

Overview

As Platform Engineer, you will build, automate, deploy, and support the cloud infrastructure powering our next-generation Blood Establishment (BECS) platform. This hands-on role uses Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, and DevOps practices to deliver secure, reliable, scalable, and observable infrastructure.

You will independently own cloud infrastructure initiatives, troubleshoot complex issues, and drive root-cause solutions while partnering with infrastructure team members as well as product, and development teams to continuously improve platform reliability and performance.

The base salary range for this position is $104,934-$164,896.

Actual pay will be determined based upon a candidate’s job-related knowledge, skills, education, experience, geographic location, and may include other job-related factors such as certification(s), professional licensure, or internal equity considerations.

Responsibilities

• Analyze technical and business requirements to design, implement, and support cloud infrastructure solutions that meet performance, availability, security, and operational objectives.
• Deploy, maintain, monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize cloud infrastructure and services to ensure reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Investigate, diagnose, and resolve infrastructure and application incidents, recurring issues, and system performance problems, including root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation solutions, reusable modules, and scripts using tools and technologies such as Terraform, Python, shell scripting, YAML, and JSON.
• Implement and support DevOps tools, source control practices, and CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, testing, and deployment processes.
• Perform infrastructure lifecycle management activities, including upgrades, migrations, deployments, patching, backup and recovery, and environment maintenance.
• Apply established security, configuration, change management, and operational standards to ensure secure, compliant, and reliable infrastructure environments.
• Collaborate with application development, infrastructure, security, and support teams, as well as vendors and other stakeholders, to implement and maintain technology solutions.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, standards, diagrams, procedures, and work instructions, and share technical knowledge and best practices with team members.
• Evaluate emerging cloud, automation, DevOps, and observability technologies and recommend improvements that enhance operational efficiency, reliability, security, and scalability.
• Participate in on-call support and responds to infrastructure-related incidents and service disruptions as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
• 7+ years of hands-on infrastructure, systems administration, cloud engineering, or related technical experience supporting production environments within AWS preferred.
• 3+ years of platform and devops experience
• Experience implementing and supporting monitoring, logging, and observability solutions, such as Datadog or comparable platforms.
• Strong working knowledge of Linux including system configuration, troubleshooting, patching, and performance analysis.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and infrastructure automation using Terraform.
• Experience with containerization and container orchestration technologies, such as Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, and Rancher.
• Experience implementing and supporting CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling, including GitLab and Artifactory or comparable technologies.
• Working knowledge of Git and source-control practices, including branching, versioning, and peer-review workflows.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure monitoring, incident troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and operational support in production environments.
• Understanding of cloud and infrastructure security concepts, including identity and access management, network security, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and least-privilege principles.
• Experience with automated testing or infrastructure validation/testing frameworks is a plus.
• Experience working in a SaaS-based product development environment preferred.
• Relevant AWS, cloud, security, Kubernetes, or Infrastructure as Code certifications are a plus.