Platform Infrastructure Engineer

Platform Infrastructure Engineer

The individual in this role is responsible for designing and delivering infrastructure tools and services that enable business strategies in accordance with architectural governance, standards, and policies. Operating within a platform engineering team, this role focuses on building and evolving a self-service AWS platform that enables internal technology teams to deploy and operate services securely, consistently, and efficiently in a regulated financial environment. This individual continuously seeks opportunities to improve the reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience of the platform and embraces a culture that drives innovation and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in translating business and platform requirements into technical definitions, reference architectures, Terraform modules, and reusable platform patterns.
• Design, build, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) to provision AWS services in a scalable, consistent, and compliant manner.
• Contribute to the development of a self-service AWS platform, creating standardized "golden paths" and templates.
• Develop and maintain automation and CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, including validation, security scanning, and controlled infrastructure deployments.
• Embed security-by-design principles into platform services, ensuring secure defaults through implementation of IAM best practices, encryption standards, and secure network architectures.
• Support implementation of governance and guardrails, ensuring infrastructure complies with internal security, risk, and regulatory requirements.
• Develop software and automation solutions to eliminate manual processes and improve platform usability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Develop and maintain Python-based automation and tooling to support platform capabilities and reduce manual operational effort.
• Act as a subject matter contributor within AWS, Terraform, and platform engineering practices.

Required Qualifications

Education: Minimum of a 7-year degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.

Experience: Minimum 5+ years of Cloud Automation Engineer working experience. Significant experience writing Hashicorp Terraform configurations and modules, including experience with Terraform Enterprise (TFE). Experience in enterprise-scale environments, building highly available IaaS and PaaS solutions.

Technical Skills:

• Experience in DevOps and GitOps models with infra-as-code, config-as-code, policy-as-code.
• Strong knowledge of AWS, cloud adoption framework, and Well-Architected Framework principals.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking concepts, subnets, routing, load balancing, firewalls, and cloud security.
• Experience with container-related technologies and CICD tools such as Jenkins.
• Experience in programming and infra-automation tools including Terraform, Ansible, Java, or Python.
• Proficient in at least one scripting language (i.e. Bash, Python).
• Experience in Cloud logging, monitoring, and observability tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the financial services industry.
• Experience in various public cloud service providers.
• Experience on technology and infrastructure teams.
• Experience in Linux/UNIX system administration.
• Experience with Container technologies (Kubernetes, Openshift, Docker).