Senior Platform Engineer

HCL Global Systems, Inc.

$120K — $160K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in AWS, with strong knowledge of foundational services like VPC and IAM.
  • Deep expertise in EKS and ECS for managing containerized workloads.
  • Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tools like AWS CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation.
  • Strong skills in CI/CD pipeline development and environment orchestration.
  • Experience in observability tools such as Datadog or Prometheus for monitoring solutions.
  • Programming skills in TypeScript, Python, Go, or Bash for automation purposes.
  • Understanding of cloud security best practices and zero-trust principles.
  • Background in multi-region cloud system operations is preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design of scalable AWS cloud infrastructure tailored for high-speed environments.
  • Build and manage compute platforms utilizing EKS and ECS.
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code to standardize cloud environments.
  • Own CI/CD processes and ensure observability throughout the development lifecycle.
  • Collaborate with software engineers and product leaders to deliver features efficiently.
  • Mentor software developers and DevOps engineers to foster a culture of technical excellence.
  • Drive continuous improvement and reliability practices across the team.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a hybrid environment balancing startup flexibility and enterprise reliability.
  • Collaborative team culture focused on learning, experimentation, and rapid prototyping.
  • Exposure to cutting-edge cloud technologies and DevOps practices.
  • Mentorship and growth opportunities within a dynamic team.
Full Job Description
The Role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will lead the design, automation, and operation of secure, scalable AWS cloud infrastructure in a fast?paced, startup-style environment. You will build and manage modern compute platforms using EKS and ECS, implement Infrastructure?as?Code to standardize and evolve our environments, and own CI/CD, observability, and reliability across the full development lifecycle. Working closely with software engineers, product leaders, and security partners, you will help deliver high-quality features quickly and safely while strengthening our cloud and operational foundations. You will also mentor both software developers and fellow DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring
  • 10+ years of proven experience building and operating large-scale systems on AWS, with strong familiarity across foundational services including VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, RDS, S3, KMS, Route53, and networking.
  • Deep experience operating containerized workloads using EKS (Kubernetes) and ECS (Fargate and EC2 launch types).
  • Proficiency with Infrastructure?as?Code tools such as AWS CDK (TypeScript), Terraform, or CloudFormation to define and manage cloud environments.
  • Strong DevOps and platform engineering capabilities, including CI/CD pipeline design, deployment automation, release management, and environment orchestration.
  • Hands?on experience implementing observability-metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting-using tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, or OpenTelemetry.
  • Strong programming or scripting skills in TypeScript, Python, Go, or Bash for automation and platform tooling.
  • Excellent understanding of cloud security, least privilege, encryption, identity management, and zero'trust principles.
  • Highly desirable: Experience operating multi'region, globally deployed cloud systems, including cross'region redundancy, data strategies, and regional compliance considerations.
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor and guide both software developers and DevOps engineers, elevating the team's cloud literacy, reliability practices, and automation mindset.
  • Effective communicator with the ability to collaborate across engineering, product, security, and leadership teams.
  • Experience in agile development, rapid iteration cycles, and continuous improvement.

The Team
We operate in a hybrid environment that combines the speed, autonomy, and hands-on building of a startup with the strong engineering principles, reliability expectations, and security foundations of an enterprise-scale organization. Our team works closely across engineering, product, design, and security to deliver end-to-end solutions that are cloud-native, scalable, and resilient. We value experimentation, rapid prototyping, shared ownership, and learning through iteration.

Preferred Experience
  • Experience working in regulated or high-security industries such as FinTech, crypto, or healthcare.
  • Background supporting highly available, large-scale distributed systems or performance-sensitive architectures.
  • Familiarity with AWS cost optimization practices and the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
  • Contributions to cloud-native, DevOps, or Kubernetes'related open-source communities.

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