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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Platform Engineer - **Company:** Stream Companies - **Location:** West Chester, PA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), PHP (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Automation of Tests, Microsoft Azure, Command-Line Interface, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, Identity and Access Management, Laravel, Linux Servers, Software Systems, Load Balancing, Delivery Pipeline, Snowflake, Technical Debt, Vue.js, Amazon Relational Database Service, Playwright, Functional Programming, Network Server, Data Pipelines - **Published:** July 9, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=93a224c1d105c1d2 ## About the Role * Cloud Mastery: 5+ years of deep professional experience with AWS. You should be comfortable designing failover architectures and managing complex cloud networking. Bonus for experience in Azure Cloud Environment. * Systems Expertise: Hands-on experience configuring and maintaining Linux servers. You are a power user of the command line for debugging and system health monitoring. * CI/CD & Automation: Experience managing deployment workflows and an interest in (or exposure to) automated testing frameworks like Pest or Playwright. * Functional Code Awareness: You don't need to be a Senior Full-Stack Dev, but you should be "literate" in PHP and JavaScript. You can read a stack trace, understand a pull request, and help troubleshoot application issues within a Laravel/Vue environment. * Bonus Points: Experience with AWS Glue, Snowflake, or migrating legacy identity systems to modern solutions like AWS Cognito. ## Description Stream Companies is seeking a Platform Engineer to serve as the primary guardian of our infrastructure and deployment stability for our best-in-class marketing technology platform that serves the automotive retail sector. This role is a strategic evolution development functions -designed for an engineer who prioritizes AWS architecture but understands that a "bulletproof" platform requires healthy CI/CD and automated quality checks. If you are a cloud specialist who wants more autonomy and less red tape, this is your seat at the table. You will lead our infrastructure strategy while collaborating with our dev team to ensure our deployment pipelines and testing suites are second to none. The Mission Your primary objective is the stability, security, and cost-efficiency of our AWS ecosystem. While your "home base" is the cloud, you will play a vital role in supporting our Quality Control (QC) and CI/CD processes to ensure that when we ship code, it stays shipped. What you'll do * AWS & Infrastructure Authority (The Priority) * Architect & Optimize: Take full ownership of our AWS environments (EC2, RDS, S3, ELB, Lambda) to ensure peak performance and 99.9% availability. * Financial Stewardship: Proactively monitor and optimize cloud spend, treating vendor costs with a high degree of strategic ownership. * Security & Governance: Maintain servers, load balancers, and security protocols (IAM, AWS Cognito) to ensure a secure, high-availability cloud presence. Deployment & Quality Support * CI/CD Management: Maintain and harden our deployment pipelines to ensure seamless, low-risk releases. * Quality Guardrails: Act as the technical steward for our automated testing tools (Pest PHP and Playwright). You aren't necessarily writing every test, but you are ensuring the "machine" that runs them is fast and reliable. Engineering Collaboration * Technical Debt Mitigation: Work alongside the dev team to identify infrastructure-related bottlenecks or framework issues that impact performance. * Platform Support: Provide a "systems-eye view" during sprints, helping the team troubleshoot environment-specific bugs or data pipeline optimizations (Snowflake/Aurora). ## Related Videos - [Lessons learned from building a thriving Vue.js SaaS application](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1666-lessons-learned-from-building-a-thriving-vue-js-saas-application) - [The Laravel Core - Demystify The Beast](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/98-the-laravel-core-demystify-the-beast) - [WeAreDevelopers LIVE - CSS is DOOMed](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1838-wearedevelopers-live-css-is-doomed) - [Seriously gaming your cloud expertise: from cloud tourist to cloud native](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/373-seriously-gaming-your-cloud-expertise-from-cloud-tourist-to-cloud-native) - [Navigating the Corporate Jungle: Life as a Developer in a large Company](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/621-navigating-the-corporate-jungle-life-as-a-developer-in-a-large-company) - [Building Systems that Last](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1389-building-systems-that-last) ## Related Articles - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Why Upskilling And Reskilling is Important For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/428-why-upskilling-and-reskilling-is-important-for-developers) - [The 7 Most Popular Backend Frameworks for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/403-the-7-most-popular-backend-frameworks-for-developers) - [7 Most Popular Web Developer Jobs in Europe](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/163-7-most-popular-web-developer-jobs-in-europe)