Platform Engineer - Remote USA
Hybrid • Posted 8 hours ago • Updated 8 hours agoContract Independent
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$65/hr C2C
Merican Inc
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Skills
- Kubernetes
- Python
- Terraform
- CI/CD
- Port.io
Summary
Platform Engineer - Remote (USA) Job Summary:
We are seeking a highly skilled Platform Engineer to help build, automate, and maintain our scalable, secure, and resilient cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have deep experience with AWS and Azure, strong infrastructure-as-code skills using Terraform, and hands-on familiarity with IAM, automation, monitoring, and incident management. You'll be part of a cross-functional team implementing SRE best practices, improving platform reliability, and enabling fast, secure delivery through automated pipelines and platform tooling. Key Responsibilities:
We are seeking a highly skilled Platform Engineer to help build, automate, and maintain our scalable, secure, and resilient cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have deep experience with AWS and Azure, strong infrastructure-as-code skills using Terraform, and hands-on familiarity with IAM, automation, monitoring, and incident management. You'll be part of a cross-functional team implementing SRE best practices, improving platform reliability, and enabling fast, secure delivery through automated pipelines and platform tooling. Key Responsibilities:
- Automate provisioning, scaling, and management of infrastructure using Terraform, ensuring security, compliance, and reusability of components.
- Set up and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging systems to ensure platform health, availability, and performance using tools like Dynatrace.
- Participate in the incident response lifecycle, including detection, diagnosis, resolution, and postmortem analysis, in collaboration with SRE and DevOps teams.
- Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles such as SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets to ensure reliability and scalability of critical systems.
- Manage IAM, RBAC, and directory services using tools like Entra ID, and handle access requests securely across cloud environments.
- Operate and manage services across AWS and Azure, including:
- Serverless & PaaS services
- Compute resources: EC2, VMs
- Kubernetes: EKS, AKS
- Load Balancers: ALB, NLB, Azure equivalents
- Secrets Management
- Work with GitHub Actions to automate infrastructure deployment and operations workflows.
- Implement security best practices, perform compliance checks, and optimize infrastructure performance.
- Manage and optimize CDN platforms such as Cloudflare, Akamai, or similar for enhanced performance and availability.
- Proficient with AWS and Azure cloud platforms and services.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform: writing, reusing, and managing modules and infrastructure state.
- Solid understanding of IAM, RBAC, access control, and identity federation using Entra ID (Azure AD) or equivalents.
- Experience with Kubernetes (EKS/AKS) and containerized platforms.
- Familiarity with GitHub Actions and CI/CD automation.
- Knowledge of monitoring tools like Dynatrace.
- Experience with CDNs such as Cloudflare or Akamai.
- Understanding of SRE principles and modern operational practices.
Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.
- Dice Id: RTX1ca091
- Position Id: 2025-1764/23713
- Posted 8 hours ago
Company Info
With our diverse collection of skilled and committed consultants, technology companies, businesses and digital experts, we provide our subject expertise and our unique client service approach, a best-in-class global model of delivery suited to the business demands of our clients. We ensure that we implement future-oriented solutions for our clients via investments in people, solutions, technologies, competencies and infrastructure.
Our full-service offering and flexible delivery choices that combine cost, quality, effort, and risk are focused on addressing future issues for our customers. Our worldwide delivery method enables our customers to select the optimal supply plan for them.
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