Platform Engineer – AWS

Embrace Software Inc

Platform Engineer managing AWS infrastructure and CI/CD processes for a legal technology company. Evolving cloud solutions and improving operational efficiencies in a multi-tenant SaaS environment.

Posted 5/25/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDjangoDNSDockerEC2FlaskGrafanaJenkinsKubernetesLinuxNGINXPostgresPrometheusPythonReactRedisShell ScriptingTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and evolve the AWS infrastructure that underpins our multi-tenant SaaS platform.
Design, provision, and manage production-grade AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, ECR, VPC, IAM, CloudFront, Route 53, and EKS/ECS clusters.
Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or CloudFormation.
Architect and optimize PostgreSQL infrastructure including automated backups, replication, and performance tuning.
Drive high availability, disaster recovery planning, scalability, and cloud cost optimization initiatives.
Build and maintain delivery pipelines for rapid, safe, and reliable deployments.
Design and operate CI/CD workflows for Python (Django/Flask/FastAPI) and React applications.
Implement deployment strategies to reduce production risk.
Manage Docker-based development and production environments.
Design, operate, and optimize our container orchestration platform.
Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability systems using CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana.
Partner with engineering teams to improve deployment reliability and operational efficiency.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of progressive DevOps/SRE experience in SaaS or enterprise environments.
Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (AWS provider, modules, multi-environment state management).
AWS core services: EKS, ECR, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, ALB, EFS, S3, CloudFront, Route 53.
Kubernetes administration: Helm charts, pods, deployments, services, kubectl, autoscaling.
Docker containerization including multi-stage builds and registry operations.
CI/CD pipelines: AWS CodeBuild, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
PostgreSQL production management: backup automation, replication, monitoring, performance tuning.
Linux systems administration (Ubuntu/Amazon Linux) and shell scripting proficiency.
Networking fundamentals: DNS, load balancing, TLS/SSL, firewall rules, VPN configurations.
Monitoring and observability: Datadog, FluentBit, CloudWatch Logs.
Security: AWS Secrets Manager, ACM certificates, security groups, IAM policies.
Application stack: Django, Celery, Redis, PostgreSQL, Nginx.
Git workflows, branching strategies, and pull request review processes.
Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive, ownership-driven approach.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary commensurate with experience.
Opportunities for career advancement and professional development.
Experience collaborating with a diverse, global team within a remote work setting.

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Hard Skills & Tools

AWSTerraformPostgreSQLDockerCI/CDPythonReactKubernetesLinuxNetworking

Soft Skills

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