CareerPlan

Senior Platform Engineer (Cloud Foundations)

USAFull-time$180k2026-10-15 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Design and execute migration patterns for serverless applications to Kubernetes (EKS), building cloud foundations and automated workflows.

Role type

Senior Platform Engineer (Cloud Foundations)

Builds

EKS clusters, migration tooling, automated event-driven workflows, and cloud foundation services

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure / Kubernetes / AWS

Required skills

Kubernetes (EKS), AWS (Lambda, ECS, RDS, API Gateway, VPC, IAM), Terraform, Helm, Bash, Python, Go, CI/CD, Containers

Preferred skills

AWS CDK, KEDA, Terragrunt, Harness, Cortex, Backstage, Linux/Windows Systems Administration, Regulated Environments, Monorepos

Responsibilities

Develop migration patterns and reference implementations for CDK-based serverless apps to EKS; Translate AWS CDK stacks into Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm, and service templates; Build automated event-driven workflows on Kubernetes; Benchmark migrated services and tune resource requests/limits/observability; Build and maintain cloud foundations (account structure, networking, IAM); Contribute to SLOs, alerting, incident response, and cost management; Improve developer experience via Harness pipelines and service catalogs; Write platform standards, guardrails, and runbooks.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC