About the role

What will you do at Tensure?

Where You'll Come In

As a Platform Engineer - Client Solutions you'll split your time between helping our clients build modern cloud platforms and partnering with our Sales team to design technical solutions for prospective customers.

Approximately 50% of your time will be billable, working directly with clients on platform engineering engagements. The remaining time will focus on supporting go-to-market efforts by leading technical discovery, solution design, scoping projects, and helping customers understand how Tensure can solve their infrastructure challenges.

You'll serve as the technical expert during the sales process while remaining hands-on enough to stay current with modern cloud technologies and delivery best practices.

Core Responsibilities

Client Delivery (50%)

Design and implement cloud infrastructure and platform engineering solutions

Build Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or similar tools

Design Kubernetes-based platforms

Build and improve CI/CD pipelines

Improve developer experience through modern platform engineering practices

Work directly with client engineering teams to deliver successful engagements

Go-To-Market & Sales (50%)

Partner with Sales during technical discovery calls

Lead architecture and solution design discussions

Translate customer challenges into practical technical solutions

Develop Statements of Work and project estimates

Present technical solutions to engineering leaders and executive stakeholders

Serve as the technical expert throughout the sales cycle

Requirements

8-10+ years building cloud infrastructure and platform engineering solutions
Strong experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure
Deep Kubernetes experience
Terraform (or equivalent Infrastructure as Code)
CI/CD pipelines
Containers and orchestration
Observability and monitoring platforms
Experience working in consulting or customer-facing technical roles
Comfortable presenting technical concepts to both engineers and executives
Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
Some of our Perks
Medical, dental, vision & prescription benefits starting day 1!
Company paid short-term/long-term disability, AD&D and life insurance
We contribute 3% of your base salary to a 401k (regardless of your contribution)
5 weeks Paid Time Off + 11 Company Holiday
A transparent pay structure with a clear path to promotion
Understanding the interview journey
An initial screening interview
A Technical Assessment
A technical interview (pairing - code challenge, case studies and/or hypothetical questions about how you would solve certain challenges)
A culture and values interview
Offer Letter sent via email (or a decline with feedback)
Salary: $172,500 - $186,000

Which skills does this role require?

Cloud InfrastructurePlatform EngineeringTerraformKubernetesCI/CD PipelinesAWSGCPAzureContainersOrchestrationObservabilityMonitoringSolution DesignTechnical DiscoveryConsultingStakeholder ManagementInfrastructure as CodeCI/CDCloud PlatformsSolution ArchitectureStatements of WorkDeveloper Experience

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