Senior Platform Engineer

Insight Global
New York, NY, United States
9 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
7 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services Amazon S3 JIRA Cloud Engineering DevOps Github Identity and Access Management Software Tools Systems Integration Datadog Cloud Platform System Grafana
+5 more
Amazon Relational Database Service Kubernetes Infrastructure Automation Frameworks Terraform Pagerduty

Job description

We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer / DevOps Engineer to lead the productionization and expansion of our Backstage Developer Portal. This role will be responsible for hardening the existing Backstage platform, automating software catalog ingestion, implementing golden-path templates, integrating engineering tools, and creating a scalable self-service developer experience across 400+ AWS accounts. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes, AWS, developer experience (DevEx), and infrastructure automation.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering
  • Strong hands-on experience with Backstage and developer portal implementations.
  • Deep AWS expertise, including EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, and cloud-native architectures.
  • Extensive Kubernetes and container platform experience.
  • Experience with Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD automation.
  • Experience integrating GitHub, Datadog, PagerDuty, Jira, identity providers, and observability tools.
  • Strong understanding of software developer experience (DevEx) and platform engineering best practices.
  • Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.

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