Spectrum Equity

Senior Platform Engineer

Location: [Remote]

Reports To: [e.g., Chief Architect]

Overview

CINC Systems is seeking a highly skilled Senior Platform Engineer to strengthen our infrastructure, deployment, and reliability practices across our SaaS platform. This individual will be instrumental in delivering secure, observable, and cost-effective solutions using modern DevOps tooling and AWS-native services. We're looking for someone who thrives on automation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

· Architect and maintain scalable and secure cloud infrastructure in AWS, including compute, storage, networking, and security services.

· Design CI/CD strategies that improve deployment velocity, reliability, and developer experience at scale

· Deep expertise in infrastructure as code at scale, leveraging terragrunt for modular, maintainable multi-account/multi-environment architectures

· Administer containerized applications using ECS (Fargate and EC2 launch types)

· Implement observability and telemetry with tools like Datadog, CloudWatch, and centralized logging solutions.

· Integrate automated tests into the CI/CD pipeline to ensure safe and reliable releases.

· Proactively monitor infrastructure health, identify anomalies, and participate in on-call incident response with focus on reliability and resilience.

· Promote FinOps culture by optimizing cloud spend, using tools like AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, Trusted Advisor, and Compute Optimizer.

· Maintain technical documentation in Confluence, track work using JIRA, and participate in Agile development cycles.

Qualifications

Required Skills & Experience

· 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or cloud engineering roles.

· 5+ years of experience working with AWS Cloud Services, including VPC, EC2, RDS, IAM, ALB/NLB, CloudFormation, and Security Hub/GuardDuty.

· 5+ years of experience with container orchestration: ECS (preferred), Docker, Kubernetes, or Swarm.

· Experience with version control and CI workflows using Git, Bitbucket, GitHub, or GitLab.

· Proficiency in scripting and automation (e.g., Python, Golang, Bash, PowerShell).

· Hands-on experience with SQL and integrating database schema deployment into CI/CD.

· Deep understanding of IaC with tools like Terraform (preferred)

Preferred Experience

· Experience with Datadog for metrics, traces, logs, and dashboards.

· Familiarity with observability best practices: structured logging, alerting, and telemetry pipelines.

· Knowledge of secrets rotation, audit, and lifecycle management using Secrets Manager/SSM.

· Working knowledge of AWS FinOps practices: cost monitoring, forecasting, and optimization using native tooling.

· Experience participating in incident management, root cause analysis (RCAs), and blameless postmortems.

· Exposure to security controls and compliance frameworks (e.g., CIS Benchmarks, SOC 2, ISO 27001).

Soft Skills

· Strong ownership mindset with attention to operational excellence.

· Clear communication and documentation skills.

· Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and mentor junior engineers.

· Comfortable operating in a fast-paced and evolving environment.