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# Platform Engineer

- **Company:** STAND 8
- **Location:** Englewood, CO, United States
- **Salary:** $156,000.0 - $176,800.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Computer Programming, Continuous Integration, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, Role-Based Access Control, Data Logging, Cloud Platform System, Delivery Pipeline, Terraform
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.com/details/5929325453

## About the Role

Programming and automation: strong Python skills, with real experience automating workflows and working against APIs
Cloud and containers: hands-on experience with a major cloud provider (AWS or Azure) and building on containerized infrastructure
CI/CD and delivery practices: solid experience designing and running pipelines, with modern, identity-based authentication for deployments
Infrastructure as code: experience automating provisioning and configuration with Terraform or similar tools
Security mindset: treats security, secrets management, and access control as a core part of the build
Cost awareness: comfortable tracking cloud spend and applying FinOps or similar cost-management practices to help the team make informed tradeoffs
Reporting and transparency: experience exposing performance or usage metrics through APIs or dashboards that people outside the immediate team can see and use
Working with developers: comfortable treating the platform's users as customers: gathering feedback, explaining tradeoffs, and adjusting course based on what actually helps them ship
Preferred (Optional):

Experience building or maintaining self-hosted CI/CD infrastructure across cloud and on-premises environments
Experience with observability or log management platforms
Familiarity with hybrid on-premises and cloud environments
Exposure to cloud cost management or FinOps practices
Certifications are a plus but not weighted heavily. Hands-on experience matters more.

## Description

Build the internal developer platform (IDP): create and maintain self-service workflows, often called Golden Paths, that let developers provision infrastructure and ship code on their own
Manage infrastructure as code: automate provisioning and configuration with Terraform or similar tools, so environments stay consistent and repeatable
Run CI/CD pipelines: design and maintain the build, test, and deployment pipelines that let engineering ship reliably and often, applying GitOps-style practices where it fits
Build in observability: set up monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting so teams can see what is happening in their own services
Report on platform performance: build metrics endpoints and dashboards that make cost, reliability, and delivery performance visible to the rest of the organization on a regular cadence
Bake in security and access control: integrate secrets management, least-privilege access, and role-based access control (RBAC) directly into the platform
Manage cost: track platform spend and help the team make informed tradeoffs on cloud costs
Support containerized workloads: build and maintain the container-based infrastructure most services deploy onto