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Senior Platform Engineer

Ann Arbor, MI, us💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-17 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, build, and evolve a highly scalable, secure, and reliable cloud platform powering large-scale consumer-facing applications, enabling engineering teams to deliver software rapidly through standardized, self-service infrastructure.

Role type

Senior Platform Engineer (Lead)

Builds

Internal platform capabilities including multi-region AKS platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and runtime services for product teams.

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure (Azure) & Platform Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Azure (AKS, networking, App Gateway, Front Door), Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, FluxCD, distributed systems, SRE/DevOps

Preferred skills

High-traffic consumer platforms, Observability (Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry), Event-driven systems (Service Bus, Kafka), Multi-region/multi-cluster architectures, FinOps

Technologies

Azure, AKS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, FluxCD, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Service Bus, Kafka

Responsibilities

Build and operate multi-region AKS platforms; Develop and maintain Terraform modules for Azure; Own AKS lifecycle (scaling, upgrades, networking, security); Implement GitHub Actions pipelines and FluxCD-based deployments; Optimize Front Door, CDN, ingress, WAF, and traffic routing; Define SLOs, improve observability, and lead incident response; Embed Zero Trust, workload identities, and supply chain security; Mentor engineers and define platform standards; Automate compliance and security standards through Azure Policy and OPA.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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