About the role

What will you do at Photon?

We are seeking a highly skilled Platform Engineer to design, build, automate,

and manage enterprise-grade cloud platforms that enable developers to deliver

secure, scalable, and reliable applications. The ideal candidate will have

expertise in cloud-native technologies, APIs, DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines,

platform automation, observability, identity and access management, and secure

software engineering.

This role focuses on creating and maintaining modern platform capabilities that

improve developer productivity, operational efficiency, system reliability, and

security across cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

* Design, build, and maintain cloud-native platform services and
infrastructure.
* Develop and manage reusable platform components, APIs, and developer
self-service capabilities.
* Implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines to support rapid and reliable
application delivery.
* Manage source control repositories, branching strategies, and development
workflows using GitHub.
* Design and implement Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions to ensure
secure access to applications and infrastructure.
* Develop infrastructure automation and configuration management solutions.
* Build and maintain platform observability capabilities, including monitoring,
logging, alerting, and tracing.
* Collaborate with development, security, architecture, and operations teams to
deliver platform solutions.
* Ensure platform reliability, scalability, performance, and availability.
* Implement platform security controls and enforce secure engineering
practices.
* Support incident management, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and
continuous service improvement.
* Drive platform modernization initiatives and adoption of cloud-native best
practices.
* Maintain technical documentation, architecture artifacts, and operational
runbooks.
Required Qualifications
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering,
or a related field.
* 6-10 years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering,
or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
* Strong experience with cloud-native architectures and modern application
platforms.
* Hands-on experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines.
* Expertise with GitHub and modern source control practices.
* Strong understanding of API design, development, integration, and management.
* Experience implementing Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions.
* Experience with infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
* Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
* Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
Compensation, Benefits and Duration
Minimum

Compensation

USD 37,000

Maximum

Compensation

USD 132,000

Compensation

is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate.

The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role.

Medical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable

pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full-time

employees.

This position is not available for independent contractors

No applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date

of this post

Which skills does this role require?

Platform engineeringDevOpsCloud engineeringSite reliability engineeringCloud-native architecturesCI/CD pipelinesGitHubAPI designIdentity and access managementInfrastructure as codeObservabilityAutomationConfiguration managementTroubleshootingStakeholder managementPlatform EngineeringCloud-nativeCI/CDAPIIAMInfrastructure as CodeMonitoringLoggingAlertingTracingConfiguration ManagementSRECloud EngineeringSecurityScalabilityReliabilityREST APIs

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