Platform Engineer

Job Title: Platform Engineer

Location: Grand rapids MI (Hybrid)

Duration: 12+ Month Contract

(if not in MI, then remote in IL, IN, WI, OH, KY)

Qualifications

Must-Have Skills
Experience supporting large-scale, distributed systems in a multi-cloud environment.
Solid interpersonal and communication skills to interact across multiple teams; able to influence without authority and work effectively with engineers, product, and architecture.
Designing reusable Terraform modules in both Azure & Google Clouds, including PaaS offerings (not only VMs).
Understanding multi-cloud networking patterns across Azure and Google Cloud Platform (VPC, VNets, peering, private endpoints) and implementing them via Terraform.
Experience managing Terraform state securely and implementing automated testing for IaC (Terratest, Tftest).
Strong scripting skills (PowerShell, Python, Bash) and ability to build automation from the ground up for IaC workflows.
GitHub Actions experience.
Knowledge of cloud cost management and enforcing governance through IaC (tagging strategies, budget alerts).
Experience embedding security controls in IaC (e.g., scanning with Checkov, tfsec, or similar tools).
Experience publishing and maintaining Terraform modules in private registries for reuse across teams.
Ability to design IaC patterns that support high availability and disaster recovery strategies.
Kubernetes GitOps experience (Argo CD, Helm, Kustomize), scaling using KEDA, and container security.
Implemented identity & secrets patterns (OIDC, Azure Key Vault, Kubernetes external-secrets, workload identity federation across Azure/Google Cloud Platform).
Policy as code/governance experience (Azure Policy, OPA Rego policy/Gatekeeper/Kyverno or equivalent).
Observability experience monitoring IaC pipeline health and drift detection (Terraform Cloud, Spacelift, or custom solutions).