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# Platform Automation Engineer

- **Company:** NINJA HOLDINGS LLC
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Configuration Management, Databases, Web Development, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Github, Python (Programming Language), Linux System Administration, NoSQL, Ruby, Service Pack, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Software Vulnerability Management, Web Applications, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, 3-tier Architectures, Terraform, Programming Languages
- **Published:** November 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/platform-automation-engineer-ninjaholdings-10751617

## About the Role

* 3+ years of technical experience in an engineering organization
 * Extensive experience building highly available, fault tolerant cloud-based systems
 * Excellent technical understanding of distributed system design and development
 * Experience implementing automated CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and IaC
 * Experience in container-based architectures using Kubernetes
 * Solid fluency in Linux-based environments and network engineering
 * Demonstrated excellence in multiple programming languages
 * Excellent analytical, written and verbal communication skills

Additional Pluses:

 * Experience setting up modern 3-tier web application platforms on AWS
 * Experience with Ruby, Python, Terraform, GitHub Actions and/or Kubeflow
 * Experience in multiple SQL and NoSQL database technology stacks
 * Interest in AI technologies and experience supporting or enabling their adoption across engineering and business teams
 * Excellent technical understanding of modern web application development practices
 * Passion for security, observability, and failover

## Description

Platform Engineers in this role are part of the Operations department and will be primarily focused on the design, development and automation of our cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. This person will work closely with the Software and Risk Engineering teams across our brands to streamline our environments and deployment processes.

Successful candidates for this role will be highly motivated self-starters with a proven track record of using modern technology and software engineering practices to design and deploy robust, cloud-native solutions at scale., * Develop, and maintain automation for managing scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure

 * Automate infrastructure lifecycle management, including upgrades, dependency management, security patching, and vulnerability remediation
 * Identify and eliminate repetitive manual processes through automation, improving operational efficiency, consistency, and reliability
 * Collaborate with engineering and business teams to improve platform capabilities, enable emerging technologies, and document technical solutions