[Remote] Sr. Platform Ops Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Versant Media is an industry-changing media and entertainment business home to trusted brands that shape culture and inform audiences. They are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to build and maintain core platform infrastructure that supports their engineering teams, driving platform enhancements and enabling developer productivity.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain core platform infrastructure that serves as the foundation for engineering teams across the organization
• Drive and participate in solution architecture and delivery across diverse domains, offering expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure and resources, containers (ECS/Kubernetes) and cloud-native architectures
• Develop, enhance, and operate platform capabilities including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, reusable patterns, and automation solutions that enable rapid, reliable, and secure deployments
• Design and implement standardized, reusable cloud infrastructure patterns and templates that help teams adopt best practices while maintaining security and compliance requirements
• Demonstrate, enable, and promote consistent adoption of software delivery practices and solutions that optimize for fast feedback, observability, and operational excellence
• Proactively collaborate with product and engineering teams, taking technical leadership in areas of cross-functional projects while sharing knowledge and best practices
• Evaluate existing standards and practices, identify gaps, and implement improvements to strengthen Development, Security, and Operational practices across the organization
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills through proactive status updates, clear documentation, knowledge sharing, and effective collaboration when facing technical challenges
• Partner closely with engineering teams to understand their needs, refine requirements, and deliver solutions that enhance developer productivity while meeting project objectives
• Work with emerging technologies around AI, MCP, and RAG
• Cost optimization - Monitor and optimize cloud spend, implementing cost governance strategies and right-sizing recommendations
• Service reliability Maintain SLOs/SLIs/SLAs, improve uptime targets, and help implement reliability engineering practices
• Mentorship - Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, conduct design reviews, and raise the technical bar across the platform team

Skills

• AWS Expertise: 6+ years of hands-on experience with AWS, with a focus on Infrastructure as Code
• Linux Proficiency: Minimum of 4 years of experience managing and maintaining Linux systems
• Automation/Scripting: 3+ years of experience with Python for automation and scripting
• Git and GitOps: Practical experience and comfortable using Git and automated workflows
• AWS Security Knowledge: Familiarity with AWS security best practices, including DNS, secure VPCs, and database security (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• Communication & Collaboration: Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
• Problem-Solving Mindset: Eagerness to learn, grow, and tackle challenges in a fast-paced environment
• Troubleshooting & debugging: Proven ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems issues across networking, compute, storage, and application layers. Comfortable with packet captures, log analysis, performance profiling, and diagnosing intermittent failures in production
• Terraform / Infrastructure as Code: 3+ years of hands-on experience with Terraform, including module development, state management, and multi-environment workflows. Comfortable writing, reviewing, and maintaining IaC that provisions and manages cloud infrastructure at scale
• Networking fundamentals: VPCs, load balancers, DNS, CDNs, service mesh, network troubleshooting
• Monitoring/Observability: Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK stacks
• Incident management experience: PagerDuty, on-call rotations, post-mortem culture
• AWS Certifications: Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
• Background in building or maintaining systems that support scalable application environments and event-driven architectures
• Understanding of container security and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Fundamentals of running AI-related services
• Experience contributing to open-source projects or internal platform tools
• Multi-account AWS strategy (Organizations, Control Tower, Landing Zones)
• Chaos engineering / game days
• Platform-as-a-product thinking (internal developer portals, Backstage)

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement plans
• Paid time off

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