[Remote] Platform Engineer | Remote
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Crossing Hurdles is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer for a contract role focused on developing realistic cloud infrastructure tasks and test environments. The role involves building containerized environments, defining infrastructure requirements, creating comprehensive tests, and debugging and documenting technical solutions.
Responsibilities
- Create realistic cloud infrastructure tasks involving distributed systems, networking, security, scalability, and reliability
- Build reproducible, containerized environments with valid reference solutions and intentionally defective variants
- Define measurable requirements across infrastructure configuration, deployed topology, and runtime behavior
- Develop deterministic integration, load, security, failure-injection, deployment, and recovery tests
- Debug environments, document technical decisions, and review tasks created by other experts
Skills
- Have strong relevant experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, systems engineering, or SRE
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems, scalable APIs, queues, autoscaling, durable storage, and partial-failure scenarios
- Practical experience with IAM, private networking, least-privilege access, and service-to-service security
- Experience with observability, measurable SLOs, rolling deployments, rollback strategies, and disaster recovery
- Ability to write infrastructure automation or testing tools and debug containerized environments using a relevant programming language
Company Overview