Job Title: Staff Platform Engineer
Location: Denver, CO | Hybrid - 4 days in office, Friday WFH
Full-Time Direct Hire W2
Salary: $190K-$220K Base + 20% Bonus
Company Overview:
Our client is a global leader in connected TV (CTV) and cross-screen advertising. They pride themselves on delivering state-of-the-art advertising solutions that integrate seamlessly with today’s ever-evolving digital media landscape.
Job Overview:
Our client is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Staff Engineer - Platform to join their growing team. This role will focus on architecting scalable, secure, and resilient cloud solutions while playing a key part in building and maintaining a federated architecture. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with AWS cloud platforms and DevOps best practices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and Implement Cloud Solutions: Design and deploy scalable, reliable, and secure cloud-based infrastructure solutions using AWS.
- Internal Developer Platform (IDP) and Portal Development: Lead efforts in building and maintaining an IDP that enhances developer productivity, ensuring self-service access to development environments, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure.
- DevOps Practices: Define and implement best practices for CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), and infrastructure automation using tools like Pulumi, Ansible, or others.
- Performance Monitoring and Optimization: Implement systems for monitoring, logging, and incident response to ensure high availability and performance of the infrastructure.
- Security and Compliance: Ensure all cloud infrastructure and DevOps processes adhere to industry-standard security and compliance regulations.
- Collaboration & Leadership: Collaborate closely with development, operations, and security teams to align architecture and operational efficiency with business goals.
Required Skills and Experience:
- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Advanced degrees are a plus.
- Experience: DevOps, platform engineering, or infrastructure management.
- AWS Expertise: Expertise in architecting and managing AWS solutions with deep knowledge of cloud-native services and infrastructure.
- Internal Developer Platform (IDP) and Portal: Experience designing, building, or maintaining IDPs for development teams, enabling self-service environments and CI/CD capabilities.
- Observability: Establish robust observability frameworks, including monitoring, logging, and tracing, to ensure the health and performance of all systems.
- Networking: Design and manage secure and optimized networking solutions within AWS, including VPCs, subnets, and network security.
- DevOps Tools and Automation: Extensive hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Argo, Github Actions), infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi), and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
- Scripting and Automation: Proficiency in at least one scripting language (Bash, Python, Go) to automate operational tasks.
- Security and Compliance: Familiarity with cloud security best practices, identity and access management (IAM), and data protection in the cloud.
- Agile Methodologies: Experience working in Agile and DevOps-focused organizations.
- Leadership Experience: Experience in leading cross-functional teams or mentoring junior engineers in cloud and DevOps practices.
Preferred Qualifications:
- On-Prem to Cloud Migration: Prior experience in migrating large-scale infrastructure or applications from on-premise to the cloud is highly desirable.
