Senior Platform Engineer

Join our engineering team as a Senior Platform Engineer, where you'll play a key role in shaping and optimizing our deployment architecture. This hands-on position offers true autonomy over our CI/CD pipelines, automated guardrails, and migration strategies. You'll collaborate with TechOps, standardize application-level configurations, drive phased application migrations, build robust deployment pipelines, implement application observability, and create developer self-service documentation. Enjoy generous wellness benefits, paid time off, robust parental leave, competitive retirement savings benefits, and employee learning and development opportunities.

• Act as the key engineering stakeholder to help shape, configure, and roll out the new Kubernetes platform, modernizing how workloads are deployed and scaled.
• Utilize and contribute to Ansible-based deployment automation to facilitate seamless product feature releases, adhering to established TechOps peer-review processes.
• Drive phased application migrations by partnering with engineering teams to containerize and migrate existing workloads to Kubernetes, starting with non-critical environments.
• A methodical, security-conscious approach
• Experience with GitOps tooling: ArgoCD or Flux
• Ability to think creatively within constraints and plan pragmatically around them: our stack is real-world, not greenfield-perfect, and we need someone who can deliver iteratively, working with what exists today while roadmapping towards the ideal state
• Experience with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Alertmanager or equivalent)
• Understanding of networking fundamentals
• Strong scripting ability: Bash and Python
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills: we're a people-first culture where teamwork is paramount. On highly technical projects with many moving parts, the ability to collaborate openly, communicate clearly, and bring people with you is just as important as technical ability
• Strong, demonstrable experience with Ansible: roles, inventories, vault, idempotency, the lot
• Comfortable with Docker and Docker Compose in production environments
• Familiarity with Helm chart authoring and management
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform (even in an on-prem context)
• Prior experience in a role where you balanced greenfield work alongside BAU responsibilities
• Experience with secrets management tooling (HashiCorp Vault, Sealed Secrets, External Secrets Operator)
• Autonomously drive outcomes: we're looking for people who demonstrate intent and take initiative, not those who wait to be told what to do next
• You have opinions about how things should be done, but you're pragmatic; you know when to pick the right tool vs. the perfect tool
• You write things down. Runbooks and diagrams: you treat documentation as part of the job, not an afterthought
• You're comfortable being the person engineering teams come to when something's on fire, and you're also comfortable saying "let me schedule that properly" when it isn't
• You can hold your own in a conversation with a software engineer, a network engineer, and senior leadership even if they all want different things
• We welcome applications from candidates who don't tick every box. If you've got strong Ansible and Kubernetes experience and the right mindset, we'd love to hear from you