Senior Platform Engineer

Role Overview

As a Senior Platform Engineer at Tithe.ly, you will help build and maintain the systems churches depend on every day. You’ll work on cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, and platform reliability, partnering with the Platform Engineering Manager and engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure & Operations

• Provision and manage cloud infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, and managed databases
• Keep development, staging, and production environments consistent
• Plan and execute workload migrations across cloud providers with minimal disruption
• Identify and implement infrastructure cost optimization opportunities

CI/CD & Automation

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines across a multi-repository environment
• Implement deployment strategies such as blue/green, canary, and rolling deployments
• Develop automation tooling and scripts to reduce manual work and speed delivery

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Write and maintain Terraform for multi-account, multi-environment systems
• Define IaC standards, module reuse patterns, and state management practices
• Drive infrastructure changes via version-controlled, peer-reviewed workflows

Reliability & Incident Response

• Participate in on-call and lead incident response
• Maintain observability using dashboards, alerting, logging, and SLO tracking
• Run post-incident reviews and implement long-term remediations

Security & Compliance

• Manage secrets, certificates, and access controls using least-privilege
• Apply security best practices across infrastructure, containers, and CI/CD
• Support audit and compliance efforts through documentation and access reviews

Collaboration & Documentation

• Provide infrastructure guidance and support service design with engineering teams
• Create architecture documentation, runbooks, and operational guides
• Help build self-service platform capabilities for other engineers

Requirements

Required

• 5+ years in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering
• Strong AWS experience with EC2, EKS/ECS, VPC, Route 53, IAM, S3, EBS, CloudWatch
• Solid Terraform experience across multi-environment configurations
• Production experience with Kubernetes, ECS, Docker, ArgoCD, and Helm
• CI/CD pipeline design experience using GitHub Actions (or similar)
• Strong observability experience (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, New Relic)
• Strong networking fundamentals (DNS, TLS, VPNs, load balancing, VPC design)

Preferred

• Experience as a network engineer
• Experience with PostgreSQL and MySQL-compatible database administration
• Experience with Google/Azure cloud and Kubernetes (or AWS) plus Terraform certification

Additional Details

• Team is fully distributed (remote); role is listed as Remote - USA.