Sr. Platform Engineer

Scion Staffing has been engaged to conduct a search for a Senior Platform Engineer for a rapidly growing streaming media and advertising technology company that delivers cloud-based entertainment solutions to businesses. This is a direct-hire, hybrid position based in Austin, Texas , with an onsite schedule Monday through Thursday and work from home Fridays.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Senior Platform Engineer will serve as the dedicated platform and DevOps lead supporting a large-scale, cloud-based streaming environment. This hands‑on position will strengthen infrastructure, delivery pipelines, observability, and AI-enabled engineering workflows while establishing consistent platform practices across multiple development teams. The ideal candidate is a curious and collaborative engineer who is excited about using AI coding tools and comfortable taking ownership across DevOps, cloud infrastructure, SRE, and developer enablement.

PERKS

Competitive base compensation with flexibility up to approximately $190,000 for a highly qualified candidate Employer-sponsored benefits package, along with a 10-15% annual bonus.

High-impact opportunity to become the organization's dedicated Platform and DevOps lead Hybrid Austin schedule with remote flexibility on Fridays Potential relocation assistance for qualified candidates moving to the Austin area

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own and improve cloud infrastructure across a primarily AWS environment with some GCP services, emphasizing scalability, reliability, and operational simplicity.
• Lead the infrastructure-as-code practice by developing reusable Terraform patterns and ensuring declared configurations remain aligned with production environments.
• Design, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines, build infrastructure, deployment processes, and the overall path from code commit to production.
• Create AI-enabled engineering workflows that strengthen automated testing, code review, development velocity, and software quality before production releases.
• Establish shared platform and deployment standards across three engineering teams to improve consistency and reduce duplicated solutions.
• Strengthen observability and resilience through effective metrics, tracing, logging, alerting, safe deployment practices, incident response, and root-cause remediation.
• Participate in an on-call rotation of approximately one week per month, support escalated production issues, and troubleshoot application code when platform concerns extend into the application layer.

QUALIFICATIONS

• At least 5+ years of professional Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure experience; Hands‑on experience operating production cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, with exposure to GCP beneficial.
• Strong Terraform expertise or comparable infrastructure-as-code experience, including reusable patterns, standards, state alignment, and deployment consistency.
• Demonstrated experience designing, building, or significantly improving CI/CD systems and automated software delivery workflows.
• Experience supporting containerized or serverless production workloads and implementing observability through metrics, tracing, logging, and alerting.
• Daily, enthusiastic use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, GitHub Copilot, or similar tools to accelerate engineering, testing, learning, and code review.
• Comfortable reading and debugging application code, with Python experience beneficial; strong ownership, technical communication, curiosity, and a collaborative approach are essential.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

This position offers competitive base compensation with flexibility up to approximately $190,000 annually for a highly qualified candidate, depending on experience, skills, and overall alignment with the position. The selected candidate will also receive an employer-sponsored benefits package, with complete plan details provided during the interview process, and relocation assistance may be available for qualified candidates moving to the Austin area.