Staff Platform Engineer

Job Title: Staff Platform Engineer

Location: Denver, CO | Hybrid - 4 days in office, Friday WFH

Full-Time Direct Hire W2

Salary: $190K-$220K Base + 20% Bonus

The client is not offering relocation assistance at this time and is prioritizing Denver Metro Area candidates. If you are out of state, you must finance your own relocation and be in Denver on day one.

Company Overview:

Our client is a global leader in connected TV (CTV) and cross-screen advertising. They pride themselves on delivering state-of-the-art advertising solutions that integrate seamlessly with today’s ever-evolving digital media landscape.

Job Overview:

Our client is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Staff Platform Engineer to join their growing team. This role will focus on architecting scalable, secure, and resilient cloud solutions while playing a key part in building and maintaining a federated architecture. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with AWS cloud platforms and DevOps best practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and Implement Cloud Solutions: Design and deploy scalable, reliable, and secure cloud-based infrastructure solutions using AWS.
• Internal Developer Platform (IDP) and Portal Development: Lead efforts in building and maintaining an IDP that enhances developer productivity, ensuring self-service access to development environments, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure.
• DevOps Practices: Define and implement best practices for CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), and infrastructure automation using tools like Pulumi, Ansible, or others.
• Performance Monitoring and Optimization: Implement systems for monitoring, logging, and incident response to ensure high availability and performance of the infrastructure.
• Security and Compliance: Ensure all cloud infrastructure and DevOps processes adhere to industry-standard security and compliance regulations.
• Collaboration & Leadership: Collaborate closely with development, operations, and security teams to align architecture and operational efficiency with business goals.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Advanced degrees are a plus.
• Experience: DevOps, platform engineering, or infrastructure management.
• AWS Expertise: Expertise in architecting and managing AWS solutions with deep knowledge of cloud-native services and infrastructure.
• Internal Developer Platform (IDP) and Portal: Experience designing, building, or maintaining IDPs for development teams, enabling self-service environments and CI/CD capabilities.
• Observability: Establish robust observability frameworks, including monitoring, logging, and tracing, to ensure the health and performance of all systems.
• Networking: Design and manage secure and optimized networking solutions within AWS, including VPCs, subnets, and network security.
• DevOps Tools and Automation: Extensive hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Argo, Github Actions), infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi), and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Scripting and Automation: Proficiency in at least one scripting language (Bash, Python, Go) to automate operational tasks.
• Security and Compliance: Familiarity with cloud security best practices, identity and access management (IAM), and data protection in the cloud.
• Agile Methodologies: Experience working in Agile and DevOps-focused organizations.
• Leadership Experience: Experience in leading cross-functional teams or mentoring junior engineers in cloud and DevOps practices.

Preferred Qualifications:

• On-Prem to Cloud Migration: Prior experience in migrating large-scale infrastructure or applications from on-premise to the cloud is highly desirable.