Senior Platform/DevOps Engineer - Remote

Role Overview

Join a remote team as a Senior Platform/DevOps Engineer. You will own delivery, shape infrastructure strategy, and build scalable, secure platforms for a major SaaS environment powering global digital marketplaces.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate scalable, secure, and reliable cloud infrastructure for a major SaaS platform
• Translate ambiguity into clear milestones and progress in collaboration with product and engineering
• Run lightweight standups / async check-ins and manage work tracking in Jira with strong acceptance criteria
• Support and optimize cloud-native microservices environments
• Build automation, robust monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices
• Own and enhance CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment velocity
• Apply security best practices to strengthen systems
• Participate in 24/7 on-call rotations for mission-critical environments
• Proactively identify infrastructure issues and implement preventative solutions
• Manage Linux at scale (Windows optional)
• Continuously assess existing systems and recommend improvements
• Partner with multiple Agile teams to deliver end-to-end features from concept to launch
• Act as DRI for initiatives, ensuring delivery and cross-functional alignment
• Support operational excellence: incident response, patching, and reliability initiatives

Requirements

• 5+ years experience in DevOps or Platform Engineering
• Experience with standups/async workflows with well-defined acceptance criteria
• Hands-on Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Hands-on CI/CD using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or TravisCI
• Deep cloud experience with:
  • Compute (e.g., EC2, VMs)
  • Load balancing and auto-scaling
  • Cloud storage (S3, Blob)
  • Container services (ECS)
  • Kubernetes (EKS)
  • IAM and VPC networking
• Familiarity with configuration management (Ansible, Chef)
• Strong networking fundamentals (subnetting, routing, VPC design)
• Solid system administration background (Linux required, Windows optional)
• Monitoring/observability tools: Datadog, PagerDuty, CloudWatch
• Proficient with Git
• Strong communication skills and ability to coach/unblock others without formal authority
• Scripting abilities with Bash and Python
• Ability to turn ambiguous work into structured plans with clear owners and dates

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience managing both Linux and Windows environments (Windows explicitly optional)