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#17 Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (AWS / Kubernetes / Terraform)
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Role overview Own cloud infrastructure for data and AI platforms used by product and data teams, with a focus on Kubernetes clusters running on AWS. The work combines platform operations, infrastructure as code, GitOps delivery, and reliability engineering for regulated, highly available financial workloads. You will work with infrastructure and enterprise architecture partners and help improve platform stability and developer experience.
Responsibilities - Provision and maintain AWS infrastructure with Terraform, using reusable modules and meeting security, networking, and governance requirements. - Operate production Kubernetes and EKS platforms, including tools for observability, AI model access, databases, and caching. - Design and maintain backup and recovery, high availability, scaling, shared caching, distributed rate limits, upgrades, and dependency management. - Integrate secrets and credentials through Vault, troubleshoot incidents, and improve recovery procedures. - Build GitOps and CI/CD workflows with ArgoCD and tools such as GitHub Actions; automate deployments and recurring operational work. - Improve monitoring, runbooks, and reliability while reducing manual toil.
Requirements - At least four years in DevOps, SRE, or cloud platform engineering, including three years operating Kubernetes in production. - Strong hands-on AWS experience, including EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, and networking. - Production experience with ArgoCD and GitOps, plus strong Terraform skills including modules and remote state. - Experience with Helm, Docker, and CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or AWS CodePipeline. - Bash and Python scripting skills, with experience in observability and incident response for high-traffic, highly available systems. - Background in financial services, payments, or another regulated industry; advanced spoken and written English for working with US-based teams.
Nice to have - AWS Solutions Architect, CKA, or CKAD certification; experience with Azure, GCP, OpenShift, or on-premises Kubernetes. - Argo Rollouts, policy as code with OPA Gatekeeper or Kyverno, AWS and Kubernetes cost optimization, or DevOps team leadership. - Spanish language skills.
Benefits and work setup Listed perks include English lessons, covered AWS and Databricks certifications, a birthday day off plus an additional vacation week, referral bonuses, and an annual team trip.