TELECOMMUTE Sr. Platform Engineer

Platform & Infrastructure

• Architect and maintain AWS-based infrastructure ECS, EKS, ECR, VPC, IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using AWS CDK (preferred), AWS cloud formation and Terraform for modular, reusable patterns.
• Optimize cost, performance, and security across environments.
• Orchestrate containers, observability stacks, and scaling strategies across distributed systems to ensure reliability and high availability.

CI/CD & Developer Experience

• Build and standardize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, reusable workflows, and deployment strategies.
• Integrate GitHub Advanced Security CodeQL, Secret Scanning, Dependabot) into pipelines for proactive security.
• Enable OIDC-based deployments for secure, secretless AWS access.
• Drive adoption of internal developer platform (IDP) such as Atlassian Compass Preferred) or Backstage to enable developer self service, service cataloging, scorecards, and golden paths.

Observability & Reliability

• Implement OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing and metrics.
• Configure APM monitoring tooling (e.g Datadog ), including dashboards, alerts, and SLOs for application health and performance.
• Improve MTTR through automated incident response and runbooks.

Security & Compliance

• Embed security checks in CI/CD pipelines (e.g., SAST, dependency scanning, secret scanning, container image scanning, etc.) to support SOC 2 and PCI compliance
• Experience with Policy as Code using OPA
• Open Policy Agent) and Conftest to validate IaC templates before deployment will be preferred
• Apply AWS Well-Architected Framework principles across all platform designs to ensure security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and operational excellence.
• SBOB Software Bill of Materials): Ensures transparency of all dependencies for compliance and vulnerability management.
• Cosign (Image Signing): Provides cryptographic verification of container images to prevent tampering and supply chain attacks.

AI & Automation

• Work with AI MCP servers to automate operational workflows and enhance developer experience.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Partner with engineering teams to define platform standards and best practices.
• Mentor peers and promote automation-first culture.
• Operate with minimal supervision and deliver solution-oriented outcomes.

We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to architect and scale our AWS-driven ecosystems while championing a “developer-first” culture through self-service Internal Developer Portals (IDPs) like Atlassian Compass. In this role, you will bridge the gap between development and operations by building “golden paths,” standardizing high-velocity CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, and embedding DevSecOps practices to ensure SOC 2 and PCI compliance. We are looking for a solution-oriented expert with 7+ years of experience who can leverage Infrastructure as Code (AWS CDK/Terraform) and AI-driven automation to reduce friction for our engineering teams. If you are passionate about observability, security-by-design, and building platforms that developers actually love to use, we want to talk to you about joining our San Antonio-based or remote team., Cloud: AWS ECS, EKS, ECR, IAM, VPC, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS

• IaC: AWS CDK (preferred), Terraform.

• CI/CD: GitHub, GitHub Actions, GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS).

• Languages: C#, Python, Bash, Go, Java, JavaScript.

• Containers: ECS, EKS, ECR.

• Observability: OpenTelemetry, Datadog.

• IDP: Atlassian Compass (preferred) or Backstage.

• Strong problem-solving and solution-oriented mindset.

• Previous development experience is a plus.

Preferred Skills

• AWS services and observability tools like Datadog.

• Policy-as-Code experience

• OPA, Conftest).

• Secrets management

• AWS Secrets Manager, Vault).

• Experience with developer portals and platform standardization

• Atlassian Compass or Backstage).

Certifications (Huge plus):

• AWS Certification (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or Security Specialty).

• GitHub Certification (GitHub Actions or GitHub Advanced Security).

• OPA/Policy-as-Code Certification (or equivalent governance/security automation credentials).

skills:

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