[Remote] Platform Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Prestige Staffing is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to help shape and support the infrastructure behind a growing technology environment. The role involves working across cloud infrastructure, automation, and deployment tooling to create dependable and scalable systems for engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Help architect and develop the company’s cloud infrastructure and internal platform capabilities
- Automate the provisioning and management of infrastructure through Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or comparable tools
- Administer and continuously improve cloud environments with an emphasis on availability, scalability, performance, and responsible cloud spend
- Create and maintain automated workflows for application releases, infrastructure changes, and deployments
- Support and improve CI/CD processes used by development teams
- Build, manage, and troubleshoot containerized applications and supporting infrastructure using Docker and Kubernetes
- Establish repeatable processes for infrastructure configuration, deployment, monitoring, and operational support
- Investigate complex technical issues across cloud infrastructure and production environments
- Collaborate with developers, architects, security professionals, and other technical partners to improve the overall engineering ecosystem
- Contribute to infrastructure and platform capabilities that support emerging AI and data-driven applications
- Look for opportunities to eliminate manual work through automation and improve the overall developer experience
Skills
- 6+ years of professional experience in platform engineering, DevOps, cloud engineering, software engineering, or a related field
- Significant experience working with at least one major public cloud platform
- Hands-on experience managing production cloud infrastructure
- Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or a similar technology
- Practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience developing or supporting CI/CD and automated deployment pipelines
- Solid understanding of cloud architecture, infrastructure reliability, networking, security, and scalability
- Experience with scripting or programming, such as Python, Bash, Go, or another comparable language
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting abilities
- Comfortable working independently while partnering closely with other engineering teams
- AWS is strongly preferred, though Azure and Google Cloud experience will also be considered
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