Sr Platform Engineer

Requirements:

• At least 3 years of experience in cloud platform engineering, software engineering, systems engineering, or DevOps, with hands-on work across IaaS, PaaS, AI, and containers.
• Experience designing and implementing Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and automated platform provisioning, with proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language.
• Experience contributing to DevOps or DevSecOps practices and collaborating across teams.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex systems and improve platform reliability.
• Working knowledge of identity and access management and cloud platform security.
• Experience implementing or supporting observability, including logging, monitoring, and performance diagnostics.
• Strong background in secure cloud architectures for internet-facing applications.
• Strong leadership, interpersonal, influencing, collaboration, and negotiation skills.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience; a high school diploma is required when equivalent experience is substituted.
• Applicants must be willing and able to work on a W-2 basis.
• Must be able to work from home in a designated workspace with a reliable internet connection of at least 50 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload; 100/20 Mbps is recommended.
• Preferred: exposure to cloud migration and modernization from on-premises environments, AI/ML platform services, platform security and compliance controls, developer self-service, and cost optimization.
• Preferred: experience with microservices architectures and asynchronous integration using queuing and messaging platforms, as well as Microsoft Azure IaaS and PaaS.
• Preferred: Microsoft Azure certifications, such as Azure Administrator, Developer, Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, Azure AI Engineer Associate, or AI Fundamentals, within 1.5 years.

Responsibilities:

• Implement and help design cloud platform environments across compute, storage, networking, and runtime layers using Azure IaaS and PaaS.
• Deploy and operate containerized, platform-native runtime services.
• Provision infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code.
• Develop, maintain, and improve reusable platform components and automation frameworks aligned with platform patterns and standards.
• Apply security controls and policy enforcement, and implement identity, access, and secrets-management patterns.
• Enable compliance and governance through automated guardrails.
• Implement monitoring and logging solutions and support observability.
• Build and support redundant, fault-tolerant systems and automated recovery using zonal and multi-region patterns.
• Monitor platform performance and contribute to cost optimization.
• Enable consistent application deployment patterns and workflows.
• Build, support, and enhance developer tooling and CI/CD platform capabilities.
• Maintain self-service templates and contribute to golden paths, abstraction layers, and APIs for infrastructure and platform services.
• Troubleshoot platform and infrastructure issues and conduct root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with colleagues and share knowledge.
• Implement and support messaging, eventing, and API capabilities, including event-driven and asynchronous communication across systems.
• Use and contribute reusable integration patterns for application and platform services.
• Perform other assigned duties and comply with applicable policies and standards.

Technologies:

• AI
• API
• Architect
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevSecOps
• DevOps
• IaaS
• Support
• PaaS
• Security
• microservices

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We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer I to join our Platform Engineering and DevOps organization in a full-time, permanent, remote role. The position supports secure, scalable public cloud adoption, developer self-service, cloud reliability, automation, and improved software delivery. We provide company equipment and remote training. The stated salary is $138,000–$143,000 per year on a W-2 basis. Eligible W-2 employees regularly scheduled for at least 30 hours per week may receive medical, dental, and vision coverage, pre-tax accounts, voluntary life and disability insurance, a 401(k) with match, and sick time where required by law. We use AI tools in initial application screening and hiring, with human recruiters reviewing AI-assisted evaluations and responses. Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm providing technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions; we value a diverse and inclusive workplace and make employment decisions based on merit, performance, and business needs. A referral award of $1,000 may be available for a referred candidate we hire.

last updated 43 week of 2026