We are seeking a Senior / Lead Platform Engineer to design, build, and evolve a highly scalable, secure, and reliable cloud platform powering large-scale consumer-facing applications. This role will lead the development of our internal platform capabilities, enabling engineering teams to deliver software rapidly and safely through standardized, self-service infrastructure, CI/CD, and runtime services. This position combines deep hands-on engineering with technical leadership, focusing on Azure-native architectures, Kubernetes (AKS), GitOps (FluxCD), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and modern web delivery technologies. Our Platform Engineers play a critical role in building the internal systems and automation that enable fast, reliable software delivery while abstracting infrastructure complexity from product teams. Key Responsibilities • Platform Architecture: Build and operate multi-region AKS platforms for high-availability, consumer-facing workloads • Infrastructure as Code: Develop and maintain Terraform modules for Azure (AKS, networking, App Gateway, API Management) • Kubernetes: Own AKS lifecycle (scaling, upgrades, networking, security, platform standards) • CI/CD & GitOps: Implement GitHub Actions pipelines and FluxCD-based deployments • Web Delivery: Optimize Front Door, CDN, ingress, WAF, and traffic routing for performance and resilience • Reliability: Define SLOs, improve observability, and lead incident response and root cause analysis • Platform Security Engineering: Embed Zero Trust, workload identities, secrets management, supply chain security, container security, and policy-driven guardrails. • Leadership: Mentor engineers and define platform standards and roadmap. Champion cloud technologies by leading learning sessions and outreach within the organization • Platform as a Product: Build and manage the platform as an internal product, focused on developer adoption, business growth, self-service capabilities, and measurable business outcomes • Governance & Policy as Code: Automate compliance, security standards, tagging, networking, and operational guardrails through Azure Policy, OPA, and similar frameworks • AI-Enabled Platform Engineering: Leverage AI-assisted operations, GitHub, Copilot governance, automation, and platform intelligence while maintaining strong operational controls and human oversight. Qualifications • 5+ years in Platform Engineering / SRE / DevOps • Strong Azure expertise (AKS, networking, App Gateway / Front Door) • Deep Kubernetes experience • Hands-on Terraform (IaC) experience • Experience with GitHub + GitHub Actions • Experience with FluxCD or similar GitOps tools • Strong understanding of distributed systems and high availability Preferred • Experience with high-traffic consumer platforms • Observability tools (Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) • Event-driven systems (Service Bus, Kafka) • Experience with multi-region / multi-cluster architectures • Exposure to FinOps and cost optimization Additional Information Benefits: • Paid Holidays and Vacation • Medical, Dental & Vision benefits that start on the first day of employment • No-cost mental health support for employee and dependents • Childcare tuition discounts • No-cost fitness, nutrition, and wellness programs • Fertility benefits • Adoption assistance • 401k matching contributions • 15% off the purchase price of stock • Company bonus