Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer | $180k | 20% Bonus | 14% Pension Contribution | Boston | AWS | Kubernetes

Role: Platform Engineer

Location: Boston, MA (3 days on site)

Salary: $160,000 - $180,000 + 20% Bonus + 14% Pension Contribution

A well-established investment and financial services organization is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to help manage and support its mission-critical AWS and Kubernetes environments.

This is a highly technical, operations-focused position for someone who enjoys owning production infrastructure, solving complex platform issues, and driving reliability at scale. Rather than building internal developer platforms, this role centers on operational excellence, cloud governance, incident response, and the day-to-day management of cloud-native environments.

You'll play a key role in maintaining platform stability, supporting internal stakeholders, improving automation, and participating in an on-call rotation.

Cloud & Platform Operations

• Manage day-to-day operations across AWS and Kubernetes environments.
• Ensure platform availability, performance, security, and reliability.
• Perform upgrades, patching, capacity planning, and lifecycle management.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, and container platform issues.
• Drive continuous improvements through automation and operational best practices.

Kubernetes Administration

• Operate and maintain production Kubernetes clusters.
• Perform cluster upgrades, patching, and version management.
• Troubleshoot control plane, worker node, networking, storage, ingress, and workload issues.
• Improve cluster performance, resiliency, and resource utilization.
• Support and optimize containerized application deployments.

AWS Operations & Governance

• Manage AWS infrastructure, IAM, networking, and cloud resources.
• Implement governance controls, security policies, and access management frameworks.
• Support compliance requirements and infrastructure standards.
• Assist with cloud cost management and optimization initiatives.
• Partner with security teams to remediate risks and vulnerabilities.

Incident Response & Reliability

• Participate in production support and on-call rotations.
• Lead troubleshooting efforts during service interruptions and outages.
• Conduct root cause analysis and implement preventative measures.
• Support a ticket-driven operational environment with a strong service mindset.
• Maintain and improve monitoring, logging, and alerting capabilities.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with engineering teams on deployment and infrastructure challenges.
• Support internal stakeholders with platform and cloud-related requests.
• Partner with networking, security, and development teams to improve service delivery.
• Contribute to operational planning and strategic infrastructure improvements.

Required Experience

• 5+ years supporting cloud infrastructure in production environments.
• Strong hands-on Kubernetes administration experience, including:
• Cluster lifecycle management
• Upgrades and patching
• Networking (CNI)
• Ingress controllers
• Persistent storage
• RBAC and security
• Cluster and workload troubleshooting
• Strong AWS experience, including:
• IAM
• VPC
• EC2
• EKS
• Route 53
• CloudWatch
• Load Balancers
• EFS
• Experience implementing AWS governance and security best practices.
• Strong Linux administration skills.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or other Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
• CI/CD pipeline and deployment automation experience.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog or similar tools.
• Proven success supporting production incidents and on-call environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to Have

• Enterprise-scale Kubernetes experience.
• GitOps experience (ArgoCD or similar).
• Policy management tools such as Kyverno.
• Container security and vulnerability management experience.
• AWS or Kubernetes certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, AWS SysOps, CKA, etc.).
• Experience working in highly regulated or security-conscious environments.

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