Platform Engineer

Job#: 3043407

Job Description:
Platform Engineer

Location: Greenwood Village, Colorado (Remote)

Role Overview

As a Platform Engineer, you will design, build, and maintain the AWS infrastructure that underpins a large-scale data lake, agent runtime environments, and CI/CD pipelines. This role ensures production environments are stable, scalable, and secure, enabling data science and agentic AI workloads to operate reliably. You will support a Network Analytics team project that is moving from proof-of-concept to production, with a focus on enhancing the security and operational efficiency of enterprise networks.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and manage AWS infrastructure for a data lake, including S3, Glue, Athena, and EMR clusters.
• Manage cross-account AWS architectures, VPC networking, security groups, and IAM roles to ensure secure data flow.
• Implement and manage infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or CloudFormation for repeatable environment provisioning.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for AI agent deployments using tools like GitLab CI/CD, Docker, and Artifactory.
• Develop and maintain application code, scripts, and automation utilities, primarily in Python, to support data ingestion, deployment, and operational workflows.
• Ensure production environment stability through monitoring, alerting, and incident response, maintaining SLAs for data pipeline availability.
• Support and maintain existing ETL pipelines written in Scala/Spark, including troubleshooting and onboarding new data sources.
• Coordinate with upstream data teams and other platform teams on connectivity, firewall requests, and integration requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Experience as a senior-level resource working in large-scale environments.
• Expert-level experience with AWS services, including EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Glue, Athena, EMR, Secrets Manager, and CloudWatch.
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code, preferably Terraform.
• Experience managing cross-account AWS architectures, including VPC peering, PrivateLink, and transit gateway configurations.
• Proficiency with IAM policy design, least-privilege access patterns, and service account management.
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and container orchestration.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitLab CI.
• Proficiency in Python or a comparable language for building automation and tooling.
• Solid software engineering fundamentals, including Git-based workflows and writing maintainable code.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience. A Bachelor's degree should be accompanied by 5+ years of platform/infrastructure engineering experience, while a Master's degree requires 3+ years.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with graph databases such as AWS Neptune or Neo4j.
• Experience with Apache Kafka, Apache Spark (Scala preferred), and Airflow.
• Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure requirements.
• Experience in the telecommunications industry or other large-scale network operations environments.
• AWS certifications, such as Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer.
• Experience developing and operating small services or APIs using frameworks like FastAPI or Flask.

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