Platform Engineer

• Security Tooling & Compliance Codification: Partner with the Security Team to intake defined compliance baselines and translate them into automated configuration management playbooks for enterprise tools.
• IaC Deployment & Configuration Automation: Build, maintain, and scale automated IaC deployments to ensure operational environments and tools are managed as code.
• Access & Identity Automation: Collaborate with Security and Platform team members to automate user provisioning and access through existing application features, APIs and IaC methodologies.
• DevSecOps: Embed security concepts and tooling into the development and deployment pipeline to facilitate early identification and remediation opportunities.
• Cloud Network Security: Implement and harden automated security groups, network policies, and cloud infrastructure to securely segment dataflows across environments following Zero Trust principals.
• Secure Package Management: Deploy, configure, and maintain secure package management proxies and local repos to safeguard infrastructure pipelines and the software supply chain.
• Hands-on Engineering (70%): Write clean, reusable infrastructure code, configuration scripts, and API integrations, setting the technical pattern for secure-by-default platform architecture.
• Cross-Functional Alignment (30%): Collaborate with engineering and security teams to embed security tools directly into core infrastructure pipelines, breaking down work and resolving deployment bottlenecks.

Senior Platform Engineer, Security

• Lead a global team of 20+ engineers, including managers and technical leads, across embedded Linux, CI/CD, build infrastructure, and developer tooling.
• Develop and execute the strategic vision, translating it into actionable roadmaps and plans.
• Optimize developer throughput and cycle times by measuring the end-to-end pipeline, setting targets, and implementing improvements.
• Identify and eliminate blockers and dependencies, automate repetitive tasks, and streamline workflows.
• Integrate AI and LLM tools into engineering processes, including code generation, testing, review, and specification work, assessing value and setting appropriate boundaries.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement: reducing friction and toil, enhancing quality, and ensuring reliable releases.
• Experiment with innovative workflows, learn from failures, and scale successful practices.
• Own the CI/CD and build strategies, ensuring automated pipelines, reproducible builds, and robust test automation.
• Maintain the security and maintainability of embedded Linux and kernel projects.
• Track key engineering metrics to inform decisions and prioritize investments.
• Hire, mentor, and develop managers and senior engineers.

Senior Director, Compute Platform Engineering

• Build the tool surface an agent acts through, the retrieval and context layer that grounds it in the right clinical and operational data, the serving path product teams call to reach a model, and the evaluation that catches a regression before a customer does.
• Take over shared components that every team depends on, providing interfaces worth depending on, and clarify the seams between the legacy platform and the newer services.
• Enhance the messaging backbone; take the event bus the rest of the way, adding contract testing for service verification.

Senior Software Engineer, Platform

• Own the technical roadmap for Platform Engineering.
• Architect, build, and operate highly scalable backend services using Ruby on Rails.
• Design and operate our Kubernetes infrastructure, cloud architecture, and deployment pipelines.
• Improve developer productivity through CI/CD, automation, internal tooling, and engineering best practices.
• Build and evolve the platform powering our AI products, including LLM orchestration, agent infrastructure, prompt management, evaluation pipelines, model routing, and AI observability.
• Own our billing platform, including subscriptions, licensing, payments, usage metering, invoicing, and Stripe integrations.
• Design and maintain secure, scalable integrations with HRIS platforms, identity providers, and enterprise customers using REST APIs, OAuth, SAML, SCIM, and webhooks.
• Build best-in-class observability through logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and performance monitoring.
• Improve the scalability, security, reliability, and operational excellence of our platform.
• Lead architectural decisions that impact multiple engineering teams.
• Mentor engineers through technical leadership, design reviews, and engineering best practices.
• Diagnose and resolve complex production issues across infrastructure, applications, and distributed systems.
• Help establish and grow the Platform Engineering function as EasyLlama scales.

Staff Software Engineer – Platform

• Designing, building, and operating cloud platform and DevOps capabilities across AWS and GCP
• Enabling reliable, secure, and scalable delivery by developing Kubernetes and Infrastructure-as-Code foundations
• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Driving automation, observability, and operational best practices across engineering teams

Senior Engineer, Internal Developer Platform

• Build, operate, and maintain containerized platform services using Kubernetes and related orchestration technologies.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting automated build, test, and deployment across multiple development teams.
• Develop and manage infrastructure-as-code using tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Implement platform monitoring, logging, and observability solutions to ensure availability and performance.
• Apply security hardening, patching, and compliance controls across platform components.
• Support development team onboarding, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of platform services.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and coordinate platform enablers with cross-functional teams.

Senior Platform Engineer

• Design and build the next-generation bare metal deployment pipeline to achieve sub-60-second provisioning times
• Develop and maintain Vultr’s bare metal automation and management toolkit
• Implement automated firmware update workflows across the bare metal fleet using IPMI/BMC protocols
• Build and optimize kexec-based fast boot and provisioning flows to minimize deployment latency
• Integrate cloud-init and instance metadata service for bare metal, enabling consistent configuration across VM and BM products
• Develop Puppet and Ansible modules for bare metal server configuration and lifecycle management
• Architect and implement VPC networking for bare metal instances, including network attach and routing automation
• Collaborate with the Provisioning and Orchestration teams to unify OS image pipelines and ensure bare metal integrates cleanly with Vultr’s reservation and assignment systems

Platform Engineer – Bare Metal

• Drive Enterprise Hierarchies M2-M3 to completion, partnering with the platform architect to define data models, account structures, and system dependencies, then translating those decisions into implementation-ready specifications
• Own all processor certification work with full accountability for external deadlines you cannot negotiate
• Manage PCI DSS compliance requirements and translate them into actionable engineering work
• Build and maintain a quarterly product backlog that sequences platform work based on external deadlines, dependencies, and cost of delay
• Lead backlog refinement sessions, ensuring platform stories have unambiguous acceptance criteria that reflect processor specifications and compliance requirements
• Own external processor relationships, be the single point of contact for certification requirements and timeline management
• Coordinate cross-domain dependencies (Hierarchies enables merchant structures and partner account growth)
• Present platform roadmap to leadership showing how infrastructure work connects to company revenue and growth objectives

Product Manager, Platform Infrastructure – Compliance

• Design, build, and operate cloud platform and DevOps capabilities across AWS and GCP.
• Enable reliable, secure, and scalable delivery by developing Kubernetes and Infrastructure-as-Code foundations.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Drive automation, observability, and operational best practices across engineering teams.

Lead Engineer, Internal Developer Platform

• Collaborate with operations team members and Principal and Staff Engineers to understand desired system level outcomes and operational requirements.
• Manage scalable cloud network topologies, including transit gateways, VPCs, subnets, security groups, and route tables.
• Design and maintain automated delivery pipelines (Infrastructure as Code).
• Provide technical input and guidance regarding responsible components during planning and design sessions with Principal and Staff Engineers.
• Provide hands-on technical contributions to the infrastructure design and deployment with approximately 80% on solving technical problems and 20% mentoring and coordinating.
• Act as the second escalation point for complex incidents, leading thorough root cause analysis (RCA) and implementing systemic, long-term fixes.

• Join a senior, distributed team: Become part of a closely-knit group of senior engineers at the intersection of application and infrastructure, working asynchronously with ongoing communication in public Slack channels.
• Architect and build platform infrastructure: Design, build, and operate foundational components of our multi-cell platform, including service routing, cloud networking, and the control plane for managing account lifecycles.
• Drive seamless migrations: Develop and automate the tooling to migrate customer accounts from legacy environments to the new multi-cell architecture at scale.
• Develop scalable backend services: Write robust, high-quality backend services and infrastructure code, primarily in Go and Python, with opportunities to work with Rust.
• Tackle cloud networking challenges: Collaborate on network architecture design, including VPC management, load balancing, DNS, PrivateLink, and service mesh configurations to support single-tenant and multi-tenant deployments.
• Automate for scale: Design and implement automation using tools like Argo Workflows, Kubernetes, and Terraform to enhance the reliability, efficiency, and scalability of our platform.
• Collaborate and mentor: Work closely with product engineering teams, security, and customer support to unblock feature conformance, define technical direction, and mentor other engineers.
• Own and troubleshoot: Take strong ownership of distributed systems, troubleshoot complex issues across application and network layers, and participate in an on-call rotation to maintain high availability.

Senior Platform Software Engineer, Transport

• Support deployment and operation of services in FedRAMP High-aligned environments
• Work with compliance platforms and partners to support secure deployment workflows, controls, evidence collection, and operational readiness
• Assist with security and compliance requirements for defense, government, and regulated customers
• Translate compliance obligations into practical engineering work
• Design, deploy, operate, and support cloud infrastructure across AWS and AWS GovCloud
• Build and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code, primarily Terraform
• Operate Kubernetes-based services and Helm-based deployment workflows across multiple environments
• Improve reliability, observability, access controls, operational runbooks, and supportability of platform systems
• Support regular release operations across multiple environments
• Maintain and improve Helm charts, deployment pipelines, CI/CD workflows, and operational automation
• Create and maintain runbooks, operational documentation, and escalation paths for regulated deployments

Staff Platform Engineer

• Design, develop and maintain data warehouses with scalable architectures to support BI applications
• Analyze business intelligence data and recommend solutions
• Support and guide IT and business customers in designing data warehouse architecture
• Lead and consult on the implementation of data warehouses
• Ensure the solutions align with organizational standards

Senior Data Engineer – Big Data Platform Team

• Lead the strategy and delivery of modern infrastructure and cloud platforms that support the company’s growth and technology roadmap
• Drive large-scale platform and infrastructure initiatives, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with business objectives
• Oversee the engineering and operational excellence of datacenters, hybrid cloud environments, core IT systems, and cloud-based services
• Implement strong governance and compliance practices across infrastructure and platform domains
• Lead, mentor, and develop high-performing engineering and IT operations teams
• Build strong partnerships with technology leaders, business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams

Senior Manager, IT Platform Engineering – Governance

• Develops database models to meet business requirements.
• Defines data requirements and business rules.
• Performs physical data modeling.
• Implements and tests database design.
• Plans for collection method, data cleansing, and normalization of enterprise data to support decision-making and reporting.
• Ensures integrity of data, software, and hardware.
• Coordinates data models, dictionaries, and other database documentation across multiple applications.
• Partners with data transformation teams to ensure design is properly communicated.
• Develops policies and procedures related to development and support of new and ongoing systems.

Senior Data Modeler/Platform Engineer

• Champion a "platform as a product" mindset, regularly gathering feedback from engineering teams and iterating to improve the developer experience
• Design, build and maintain scalable, reliable infrastructure on Google Cloud to support our growing product needs
• Collaborate closely with developers to streamline local and CI/CD workflows, and champion platform best practices
• Evolve our observability stack - ensuring teams have the monitoring, logging and alerting they need to move quickly and confidently
• Implement and maintain secure-by-default patterns for networking, secrets management, IAM, and workload isolation
• Accelerate and complete the adoption of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and GitOps to achieve consistent and auditable infrastructure changes

Senior/Staff Platform Engineer

• Lead the design, development, deployment and operational management of automated, resilient, high availability, self-healing, secure platforms with native-AI capabilities for IT needs, serving both internal as well as customer business capabilities.
• Lead, Build and manage the Platform Engineering team and function — hiring, mentoring, performance management, and technical roadmap ownership.
• Plan, build and operate an OpenTelemetry Observability platform with technologies including Grafana, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Alertmanager on Kubernetes/RKE2 using Helm and ArgoCD.
• Build an automated federated Observability Edge Stack — Prometheus + OTel collector nodes deployed per site and Zabbix auto-discovery configuration and Prometheus scrape profile library for 10+ device classes (Cisco, Juniper, Dell, NetApp, etc.).
• Design, develop and manage engineering lifecycle platforms for high-velocity secure SDLC using Gitlab and similar / related technologies.
• Build and operate iaC and CI/CD platforms including GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Ansible AWX, Helm, and ArgoCD for automated provisioning and application deployment.
• Own, enhance and operate critical IT platform technologies e.g Boomi for integrations , AWS for Cloud environments, including their hosted infrastructure.
• Establish and enforce platform security posture: secrets management via CyberArk/ Conjur , RBAC, mTLS , compliance boundary design, and zero inbound telemetry architecture.
• Build and integrate ITSM capabilities for various platforms e.g automated incident creation, CI enrichment, and CMDB correlation
• Define and implement extensibility patterns including AIOps : e.g anomaly detection hooks, event correlation pipeline design, and integration with future ML/AI tooling.
• Partner with other IT and business teams for App Dev, requirements capture, delivery validation and integration needs.
• Represent platform engineering in cross-functional architecture reviews and executive-level program updates.
• Perform other management and technical duties as required and assigned for team and operational resilience e.g team building, on-call rotation, etc.

Senior Manager, Platform Engineering

• Design, develop and operationally manage automated, resilient, high availability, self-healing, secure platforms with native-AI capabilities for IT needs, serving both internal as well as customer business capabilities
• Develop , and manage the Observability OpenTelemetry Central Backend Stack: Grafana Enterprise, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Alertmanager on Kubernetes/RKE2 via Helm and GitLab CI -CD .
• Build and manage iaC and CI-CD for automated provisioning and deployment, including Terraform modules for Infra/ VM/storage provisioning, Ansible AWX playbooks for OS/ App bootstrap, ArgoCD and Helm for Kubernetes configuration .
• Develop and manage OpenTelemetry Prometheus scrape profile library including SNMP exporters, REST API exporters, and cloud provider exporters (CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, GCP) for multiple device classes.
• Develop AIOps capabilities on platforms for e.g Observability use-cases : anomaly detection integrations, event correlation rules in Alertmanager , and synthetic monitoring patterns to reduce alert noise.
• Configure and maintain Zabbix auto-discovery: network range scanning, device classification, and Prometheus service discovery integration.
• Build and harden Edge Stack deployments (Prometheus + OTel collector) per data center site using GitOps templates.
• Integrate Alertmanager with ServiceNow: webhook routing, ticket enrichment, auto-close logic, and escalation policy configuration.
• Maintain platform security: Conjur /CyberArk secret injection at runtime, mTLS between stack components, RBAC in Grafana Enterprise.
• Author and maintain Grafana dashboards in JSON/GitLab — facility overview, network health, RED metrics, application telemetry.
• Mentor mid-level engineers, lead code reviews, and establish engineering standards for the team.
• Represent platform engineering in cross-functional architecture reviews and executive-level program updates.
• Perform other duties as required and assigned

• Collaborate with operations team members and Principal and Staff Engineers to understand desired system level outcomes and operational requirements.
• Investigate, design, test, deploy and support core cloud platform components, including networking, security and resilience features, logging, monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) features, to ensure success.
• Design and maintain automated delivery pipelines (Infrastructure as Code) to ensure repeatable, secure feature deployments.
• Manage scalable cloud network topologies, including transit gateways, VPCs, subnets, security groups, and route tables, ensuring low-latency and secure communication between distributed services.
• Provide technical input and guidance regarding responsible components during planning and design sessions with Principal and Staff Engineers to ensure the success of the larger integrated system.
• Provide hands-on technical contributions to the infrastructure design and deployment with a time allocation of approximately 80% on solving technical problems and 20% mentoring, coordinating with Staff and Principal Engineers, and supporting operations.
• Proactively identify repetitive manual tasks and engineer automated solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Act as the second escalation point for complex incidents, leading thorough root cause analysis (RCA) and implementing systemic, long-term fixes.

Senior Platform Engineer, Connectivity

• Collaborate with data platform architects to design and specify platform tooling, services, and integrations
• Build data lake and lake house architectures
• Build streaming data architectures to support data platform tooling and services
• Collaborate with software teams to integrate streaming and batch architectures with software products
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders to MVP optimal solutions
• Collaborate with data governance teams and data platform architects to build governance into technical solutions
• Maintain systems and services that provide transparency and observability into our critical systems
• Implement and promote engineering and architectural patterns, perform code reviews, and collaborate in architectural reviews
• Collaborate with product team data engineers and architects to MVP data products, maintain data models, and promote data modeling best practice
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to product and data engineers, guiding their growth and professional development and enabling their ability to use platform tooling and services
• Lead by example through hands-on contributions to designing, coding, and troubleshooting complex data systems
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks and optimization opportunities within data pipelines, databases, and processing frameworks
• Optimize data processing workflows to improve efficiency and reduce latency
• Lead efforts to diagnose and resolve data-related incidents in a timely manner
• Will participate in the grooming of stories
• Will be responsible for their own tasking towards the completion of stories
• Will mentor junior members of the team and guide junior members on best practice
• Will participate in design
• Will be responsible for the quality of their own code and will participate in code review of others product
• Will be responsible for integrating their own code with the team's DevOps plan and implementation

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