Sr. Staff Platform Engineer
ELLKAY, LLC (company site, opens in a new tab)12+ yrsRemoteDirect career pageEst. 35–60 LPA
Posted on 13 Sept
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About This Role
- Own the design, build, and operational health of infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and on-premises environments with a focus on platform engineering and Site Reliability Engineering initiatives.
- Lead development and standardization of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform modules), CI/CD pipelines for containerized/Kubernetes services, and configuration management across hybrid environments.
- Act as senior escalation point for production incidents, drive cost governance and security posture, and mentor engineering teams while influencing organizational infrastructure architecture.
Minimum Requirements
- 12+ years experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles with staff-level scope and impact.
- Deep hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, and managing on-premises infrastructure in hybrid environments.
- Expert-level Terraform experience including module design, state management, and workspace strategy at scale.
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes/Docker, configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or equivalent), observability stacks, production incident response, cloud cost governance, and security frameworks.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experienced senior platform engineer skilled in hybrid cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and on-prem with a strong operational and engineering leadership focus.
- Proficient in Infrastructure as Code, deployment automation, configuration management, and observability to drive reliability and scalability at organizational scale.
- Strong cross-functional communicator able to collaborate with SRE, security, and leadership teams while mentoring and influencing technical roadmaps.