Senior Platform Engineer

Primary Responsibilities of the Role

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

• 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 effort and improve delivery speed

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

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

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

• Partner with engineering teams on infrastructure guidance and service design
• Create architecture documentation, runbooks, and operational guides
• Help build self-service platform capabilities for engineering teams

Qualifications

• Be Tech Savvy by anticipating and adopting innovations in business-building digital and technology applications. 
• Be a Nimble Learner by actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.
• Drive Results by persisting in accomplishing objectives despite obstacles and setbacks
• Collaborate by building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Communicates Effectively by developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Manages Complexity by making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.

• 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering
• Strong AWS experience with EC2, EKS/ECS, VPC, Route 53, IAM, S3, EBS, and CloudWatch
• Deep Terraform experience across multi-environment configurations
• Experience with Kubernetes, ECS, Docker, ArgoCD, and Helm in production environments
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions or similar tools
• Strong observability and monitoring experience (Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, New Relic, etc.)
• Solid networking fundamentals including DNS, TLS, VPNs, load balancing, and VPC design

• Experience as a network engineer
• Experience with postgres and mysql compatible database administration
• Experience working with Google/Azure cloud 
• Kubernetes, AWS or Terraform certification

• We are a fully distributed team (100% remote) with travel sometimes required 1-2 times per year.
• A stable work environment with designated workspace and access to high-speed internet.
• US-based and legally able to work full time in the US. Sponsorships are not available at this time.
• Tithely is currently able to employ in the following states: AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, MI, MN, MT, NC, NE, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WV

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