Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Madison-Davis, LLC is seeking a hands-on Platform Engineer to design, build, and scale a modern cloud infrastructure platform. The role involves owning core platform engineering initiatives, establishing best practices, and collaborating with software engineering teams to enhance developer productivity.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain cloud-native platform infrastructure
- Manage Kubernetes clusters, deployments, scaling, and operational reliability
- Build internal APIs and platform services using Python and FastAPI (or similar frameworks)
- Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and modern deployment tooling
- Establish release management processes and deployment best practices
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and operational workflows
- Implement monitoring, logging, and observability across the platform
- Improve platform scalability, availability, and security
- Collaborate closely with software engineering teams to improve developer experience
- Evaluate and leverage AI tools to improve engineering productivity and automation
- Help shape the future platform engineering organization as the team grows
Skills
- 5+ years of Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure experience
- Expert-level Python development experience
- Experience building production APIs using FastAPI or similar Python frameworks
- Hands-on Kubernetes administration, deployments, and troubleshooting
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar tools
- Strong experience with cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Experience building deployment automation and release management processes
- Enterprise-scale engineering experience supporting complex production environments
- Strong systems thinking and automation mindset
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD)
- GitOps experience (ArgoCD, Flux, etc.)
- Service Mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Platform tooling development
- Experience mentoring engineers or helping build technical teams
- Experience using AI developer tools such as Claude, GPT, GitHub Copilot, or similar
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