Senior Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Alma's Platform Infrastructure team as a Senior Platform Engineer and play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and maintaining the cloud infrastructure that supports our application architecture. You will contribute to our shift to a service-oriented architecture, build infrastructure-as-code solutions with Terraform, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and enable observability for cloud infrastructure. This role requires 5-7 years of experience in cloud infrastructure engineering, proficiency in Terraform and AWS services, and strong communication skills. Alma offers a remote-first work environment and a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, 401k, wellness stipends, and generous paid time off.

Requirements

• Have 5-7 years of experience in cloud infrastructure engineering, with extensive understanding and application of solutions that align with the AWS Well-Architected Framework – especially those that include ECS, EC2, Route53, RDS, Arora, SQS, Lambda, S3, Secrets Manager
• Have experience with containerization and orchestration, especially within AWS ECS
• Be proficient in Terraform and have implemented complex infrastructure-as-code for multi-account ecosystems hosting environments from Development to Production. This includes creation of custom modules for infrastructure management and community consumption
• Have experience with automation and configuration management tools, such as GitHub Actions, Ansible, and Celery
• Be skilled in observability, with hands-on experience in configuring, monitoring and tuning alerting using tools like Datadog and PagerDuty to provide actionable insights and maintain high availability
• Have deep experience with Linux system administration, including managing configurations, monitoring, and security for production systems
• Be knowledgeable in cloud-native service-oriented architecture design and best practices, with experience enabling application migration from monolithic architectures
• Be pragmatic and able to balance theory with practical solutions, prioritizing security, performance, and cost-efficiency
• Have knowledge of AWS pricing and budgeting tools, and experience enabling cost management solutions within cloud environments
• Have strong communication skills and are comfortable collaborating across domain boundaries to drive infrastructure projects that meet both technical and business needs
• Have a passion for mentorship and sharing knowledge and best practices with others in a collaborative and supportive manner

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud architecture solutions that support our shift to a service-oriented architecture
• Create infrastructure-as-code solutions with Terraform, enabling infrastructure consistency, scalability, and manageability
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Security, Developer Experience, Data Engineering, and application feature teams, to build and scale cloud-native solutions that support the growth of our products and services
• Enable observability for cloud infrastructure, implementing monitoring, alerting, and logging to ensure uptime and reliability
• Contribute to cost-management strategies by optimizing resource use and leveraging AWS pricing models
• Drive improvements in security posture by implementing and managing configurations, secrets, and access controls for cloud resources
• Automate deployment and configuration processes, streamlining infrastructure management while ensuring compliance and scalability
• Provide mentorship to other Platform Infra engineers, encouraging best practices in infrastructure design, security, and automation

Benefits

• We’re a remote-first company
• Health insurance plans through Aetna (medical and dental) and MetLife (vision), including FSA and HSA plans
• 401K plan (ADP)
• Monthly therapy and wellness stipends
• Monthly co-working space membership stipend
• Monthly work-from-home stipend
• Financial wellness benefits through Northstar
• Pet discount program through United Pet Care
• Financial perks and rewards through BenefitHub
• EAP access through Aetna
• One-time home office stipend to set up your home office
• Comprehensive parental leave plans
• 11 paid holidays, 1 Alma Mental Health Day, and 1 Alma Volunteering Day
• Flexible PTO