# Senior Platform Engineer

**Company:** [inKind](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/inkind)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $190k – $200k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Amazon Ec2, Amazon Ecs, Amazon Eks, Amazon Vpc, Aws Iam, Amazon Rds, Amazon Elasticache, Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, CloudWatch, Infrastructure As Code, Observability, Ruby on Rails
**Posted:** 2026-08-28

> Own and evolve AWS cloud infrastructure, deployment, reliability, observability, and security for a growing financial and hospitality technology platform. The hands-on role requires 8+ years operating production cloud infrastructure, strong AWS and container orchestration expertise, and experience with migrations and incident response.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### Platform and Cloud Infrastructure
- Own and evolve AWS infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, and managed services.
- Design and maintain highly available infrastructure with predictable performance and financial correctness.
- Lead platform architecture decisions, service migrations, and runtime changes, such as Redis to Valkey and EKS to ECS/Fargate.
- Balance reliability, cost, and operational simplicity when making infrastructure decisions.

### Deployment, Reliability, and Operations
- Design and maintain safe, repeatable, and observable deployment pipelines.
- Own reliability through capacity planning, failure modeling, and controlled change management.
- Lead incident response and root-cause analysis for infrastructure failures.
- Participate in on-call rotations and improve operational processes.

### Observability, Security, and Governance
- Build and maintain observability across infrastructure and services, including metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting.
- Secure AWS resources through appropriate IAM policies, secrets management, and network boundaries.
- Identify and address infrastructure risks involving scale, cost, and security.

### Technical Leadership and Collaboration
- Partner with application engineers to communicate platform capabilities and constraints.
- Implement infrastructure changes hands-on.
- Establish infrastructure, deployment, and operations standards as the team grows.
- Mentor platform engineers and improve organizational operational maturity.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure in cloud environments.
- Deep experience with AWS core services, including EC2, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, ElastiCache, ALB/NLB, and CloudWatch.
- Strong understanding of containerized workloads and orchestration tradeoffs.
- Experience designing systems for high availability, fault tolerance, and controlled failure.
- Hands-on infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or an equivalent tool.
- Experience planning and executing infrastructure migrations safely.
- Experience debugging production incidents involving networking, scaling, or service degradation.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience operating infrastructure for financial systems or other high-reliability domains.
- Experience scaling infrastructure during periods of rapid growth.
- Strong observability and operational hygiene practices informed by past incidents.
- Experience simplifying, retiring, or rearchitecting over-engineered infrastructure.
- Comfort working with a Rails-based application stack while remaining tool-agnostic.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Salary: $190,000–$200,000, depending on experience, plus benefits.
- Generous paid time off and company holidays.
- Company-paid short-term disability.
- Employer-covered health and dental insurance for direct employees; higher-tier and dependent coverage may involve additional employee cost.
- Vision plan available at additional employee cost.
- Child care benefits and parental leave.

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