Contract Type: Full-Time (40 hrs/week – long-term engagement)

Location: 100% Remote – Mexico or India

Experience: 8–10 years of overall IT experience, with 6+ years in DevOps, platform engineering, on prem and cloud-native infrastructure roles. 

Role Overview

Defines cloud platform strategy, drives engineering standards across DevSecOps, and leads the design of enterprise-scale infrastructure, security, and automation systems. This is a deeply technical and highly influential role — you will set the direction for how we build, secure, and operate cloud infrastructure at scale. You will be the go-to engineering authority for the most complex platform challenges. 

Core Responsibilities

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Own and evolve enterprise-wide IaC strategy using Terraform; establish standards for modularity, policy enforcement, drift management, and reusability across teams. 
• CI/CD Pipeline Architecture: Define and govern the CI/CD platform strategy; drive GitOps adoption, pipeline standardization, and developer experience improvements across all engineering teams. 
• Cloud Platform Strategy: Own the cloud architecture roadmap across AWS/Azure/GCP; drive decisions on multi-cloud strategy, landing zone design, cost optimization, and enterprise governance. 
• Containerization & Orchestration: Lead Kubernetes platform engineering (EKS/AKS), including cluster architecture, Helm chart standards, network policies, and long-term orchestration strategy. 
• Monitoring & Incident Response: Define the observability strategy — standardizing on tools, defining SLOs/SLAs, leading post-incident reviews, and driving proactive reliability improvements across the platform. 
• Security & Compliance: Own the DevSecOps security architecture: IAM governance, policy-as-code (OPA), OIDC federation, compliance automation, and security posture management at scale. 
• Teaming & Collaboration: Serve as technical anchor across engineering, security, and platform teams. Define DevOps engineering standards, mentor senior engineers, and represent the platform function in architecture and leadership forums. 

Experience (Must Have) 

• 8–10 years of overall IT experience, with 6+ years in DevOps, platform engineering, on prem and cloud-native infrastructure roles. 
• Proven track record of defining and owning on prem and cloud platform architecture and DevSecOps standards at enterprise scale. 
• Deep experience driving automation strategy across CI/CD, infrastructure provisioning, security, and operational workflows. 

Technical Skills (Must Have & Recent Experience) 

• OnPrem / Cloud (AWS/Azure) – compute, networking, storage, IAM, security services, and multi-cloud governance. 
• Containers: OnPrem Kubernetes implementation experience. Expert in Kubernetes platform engineering (EKS, AKS), Helm, service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), and container security.  
• IaC: Expert-level Terraform at enterprise scale; module design, policy enforcement, drift management, and state governance. 
• Configuration Management: Deep expertise in Ansible or similar; applies configuration management at scale with governance and auditability. 
• CI/CD: Expert across GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins; GitOps tooling (ArgoCD, Flux); pipeline security and supply chain integrity. 
• Observability: Defines observability strategy using Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor; distributed tracing and SLO frameworks. 
• Programming: Strong Python/Node.js for complex automation, platform tooling, internal developer platforms, and AI-assisted infrastructure workflows. 
• Security: Expert in cloud IAM design, RBAC, OIDC federation, OPA, policy-as-code, zero-trust networking, and compliance automation. 

Soft Skills 

• Visionary and outcome-driven; able to translate business goals into platform strategy. 
• Strong design thinking and structured approach to complex, ambiguous problems. 
• Highly effective communicator with engineering peers, product leadership, and executive stakeholders. 
• Able to set technical direction, build consensus, and drive alignment across teams. 

Nice to Have 

• Deep background in multi-cloud or hybrid cloud platform design. 
• Experience with FinOps tooling and cloud cost governance at scale. 
• AI Exposure: Practical experience integrating GenAI tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude, etc.) into platform engineering workflows — infrastructure generation, runbook automation, incident analysis. 
• Experience building internal developer platforms (IDPs) with tools like Backstage or Port. 
• Open-source contributions to DevOps/platform tooling. 

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