Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Security Journey provides developer-focused application security training through a platform for secure coding education. The Senior Platform Engineer will operate and scale AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure, improve reliability and developer experience, build automation and self-service tooling, and strengthen CI/CD, observability, and incident readiness.
Responsibilities
- Own day-to-day platform operations across AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes environments
- Improve reliability, scalability, and performance of systems supporting our learning platform
- Operate and evolve multiple EKS clusters across production and non-production environments
- Build internal self-service tooling and engineering guardrails that help developers ship safely and independently
- Improve CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions and GitOps practices with ArgoCD
- Drive observability improvements using DataDog, including dashboards, alerting, and incident response readiness
- Partner with software engineers, QA, product, and security teams to remove friction and increase delivery velocity
- Lead infrastructure changes end-to-end using Terraform and modern IaC practices
- Reduce operational toil through automation, standardization, and thoughtful platform design
- Participate in an on-call rotation focused on ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement
- Mentor teammates through collaboration, code review, and operational best practices
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or related infrastructure roles
- Strong hands-on experience operating production workloads in AWS
- Strong Kubernetes experience (EKS preferred)
- Experience managing infrastructure with Terraform or equivalent IaC tooling
- Experience building or owning CI/CD systems
- Strong troubleshooting skills across networking, containers, distributed systems, and production incidents
- Ability to balance immediate operational needs with long-term engineering improvements
- Strong written communication and comfort working in a remote-first environment
- U.S. citizenship and U.S.-based residency
- Experience with GitOps workflows (ArgoCD preferred)
- Experience with Datadog or modern observability platforms
- Experience supporting SOC 2 or regulated environments
- Experience with Kafka, PostgreSQL, or Redis in production
- Programming experience in Go or Python
- Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service tooling
Benefits
- Remote work in the United States
- Optional in-person collaboration at the Apex, NC office
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