Cloud Platform Engineer (Civil Aviation)

Air Space Intelligence

$120K — $150K *
Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in production-grade cloud infrastructure.
  • Proficient in AWS or other cloud platforms (GCP, Azure).
  • Expertise in Kubernetes and managing containerized applications.
  • Skilled with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Helm.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines to ensure reliable production releases.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems and their scalability challenges.
  • Familiarity with observability tools like Grafana and Prometheus.
  • Experience maintaining operation in 24/7 production environments.

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate cloud infrastructure for aviation systems.
  • Develop and improve infrastructure-as-code solutions.
  • Deploy services and improve observability in production.
  • Debug production issues and enhance system resilience.
  • Automate operations to reduce manual toil and maintain performance.
  • Collaborate across teams to tackle complex technical challenges.
  • Contribute to architectural decisions and design reviews.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on mission-critical aviation systems.
  • Hands-on experience in a dynamic production environment.
  • Collaboration with cross-disciplinary engineering teams.
  • Contributions directly impacting system reliability and performance.
  • Simulated interview process designed to reflect workplace dynamics.
Full Job Description
What You Will Do:

As a Cloud Platform Engineer on the Civil Aviation team, you will build and operate the cloud infrastructure powering mission-critical aviation systems used in real-world operations. This is a deeply hands-on role where you'll work directly in production environments, ensuring systems are scalable, resilient, and continuously deployable.

You'll develop and improve the core infrastructure that engineers rely on every day-shipping infrastructure-as-code, working with Kubernetes-based systems, and contributing to deployment pipelines that enable fast, safe releases. Your work will directly impact system reliability, performance, and uptime in a 24/7 environment.

You will partner closely with backend, product, and platform engineers to deploy services, improve observability, and respond to real production challenges-debugging issues, strengthening system resilience, and continuously raising the bar for reliability. Expect to work on problems like scaling distributed systems, improving release safety, and building automation that reduces operational toil and keeps systems running smoothly.

What We Value:
  • Strong experience building and operating production-grade cloud infrastructure
  • Experience with AWS (preferred) or other cloud providers (GCP, Azure)
  • Proficiency with Kubernetes and containerized environments
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Helm)
  • Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for reliable, frequent production releases
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems and scalability
  • Experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus)
  • Familiarity with production safety practices, including testing, rollout strategies, and rollback mechanisms
  • Experience operating and supporting 24/7 production systems
  • Ability to contribute to design reviews and architectural decisions
  • Strong collaboration skills and ability to work across teams in a mission-critical environment
  • Exposure to regulated cloud environments (e.g., FedRAMP) and familiarity with progressive deployment techniques (e.g., canary releases) is a plus
  • Exposure to high-availability systems (e.g., "four nines" reliability) is a strong plus
  • Proficient in leveraging modern LLM tools to accelerate development workflows and enhance code quality


How We Hire:

We look at the interview process not as a screening or test, but rather as an opportunity to simulate what it would look like working together. We build the interview process around you.

ASI works with export-controlled technology and restricted U.S. Government data, including on contracts mandating U.S. immigration status and location restrictions for performing personnel. Employment offers are contingent on ability to timely obtain all required authorizations for contemplated job duties.

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