Platform Engineer

Carbon Mapper

Posted 2mo ago

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Support, operate, and improve cloud infrastructure
Support AWS cloud services
Deploy, configure, and troubleshoot cloud resources
Identify and implement infrastructure improvements
Maintain, improve, and troubleshoot GitLab CI/CD pipelines
Standardize deployment workflows
Automate repetitive manual tasks
Improve logging, metrics, and dashboards
Participate in incident response and follow-up
Triage and troubleshoot issues
Help implement guardrails for secure and efficient cloud operations
Identify underused, misconfigured, or inconsistent resources
Write and maintain deployment guides, runbooks, and operational references
Partner with software engineers and scientists on effective use of platform tools

3+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, cloud operations, infrastructure, systems administration, software engineering, data engineering, or a related technical role
Hands-on experience with AWS or another major cloud provider
Familiarity with serverless, containerized, or batch-oriented cloud workloads
Experience with CI/CD concepts and tools, preferably GitLab CI/CD
Experience with scripting or software development in Python, Bash, JavaScript, or a similar language
Familiarity with Linux command-line tools and common software development workflows
Basic understanding of networking, IAM/access control, environment configuration, and deployment concepts
Familiarity with observability concepts such as logs, metrics, dashboards, alerting, and incident response
Ability to troubleshoot technical issues using logs, diagnostic tools, documentation, and methodical investigation
Strong writing, documentation, communication, and collaboration skills across engineering and science teams
Interest in learning new tools, improving operational processes, and supporting production systems

Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, Step Functions, ECS, AWS Batch, CloudWatch, S3, IAM, or VPC networking
Experience building or maintaining GitLab CI/CD pipelines
Experience with New Relic, PagerDuty, Grafana, Prometheus, or similar observability and incident management tools
Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as AWS CDK for Python, Pulumi, or similar
Experience with Docker, EKS, Kubernetes, JupyterHub, or related platform technologies
Experience supporting production systems, incident response, or on-call rotations
Experience supporting data pipelines, batch jobs, scientific workflows, geospatial data, or data-intensive cloud environments
Experience with cloud cost monitoring, resource tagging, rightsizing, or infrastructure cleanup

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