Senior Platform Engineer – Contract Contract

About This Opportunity

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will take ownership of large-scale cloud infrastructure and DevOps operations supporting high-traffic, revenue-generating applications.

This role focuses heavily on Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD architecture, platform reliability, observability, and cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP environments.

This is a hands-on senior engineering role ideal for someone experienced in scalable cloud-native infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code, Kubernetes operations, and developer platform optimization in modern distributed systems environments.

Company: Verve
Accepting Applicants From: Remote from Anywhere

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*Please apply if you genuinely think you meet the requirements.*

What You Will Do

• Own and optimize Kubernetes clusters (GKE) at scale
  Design and implement Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform
  Build and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and ArgoCD
  Design and maintain Helm charts across multiple environments
  Improve platform scalability, availability, and disaster recovery strategies
  Implement observability standards using Grafana, New Relic, and OpenTelemetry
  Lead incident response and contribute to post-mortems
  Mentor engineers and guide development teams on infrastructure best practices
  Participate in on-call rotations and platform reliability initiatives
  Collaborate closely with US-based engineering teams during business hours
• Technologies Used
  Kubernetes (GKE, EKS)
  Terraform
  GitHub Actions
  ArgoCD
  Helm
  AWS & GCP
  Grafana
  New Relic
  OpenTelemetry
  Python
  Ruby/Rails
  Elixir
  JavaScript
  Redis
  MySQL
  PostgreSQL
  BigQuery
  Cloud Functions
  Dataflow

What They’re Looking For

• 7+ years of Platform, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering experience
• Deep production experience with Kubernetes (especially GKE)
• Strong Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code expertise
• Experience designing scalable CI/CD pipelines
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, IAM, and cloud security
• Experience with GitOps workflows
• Strong troubleshooting and systems-thinking mindset
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing engineering culture
• Ability to work independently on complex infrastructure problems

Ideal Candidate

• Senior DevOps or Platform Engineer with strong cloud-native expertise
• Experienced in large-scale Kubernetes environments
• Passionate about automation, reliability, and infrastructure scalability
• Comfortable working in distributed remote teams
• Strong communicator and technical mentor
• Able to take ownership of critical production infrastructure
• Proactive engineer who improves systems, processes, and developer experience

Benefits

• Fully remote contract opportunity
• $40–$75 per hr
• Flexible global work environment
• Opportunity to work on large-scale advertising infrastructure
• Exposure to modern cloud-native technologies
• Collaborative international engineering team
• High-impact infrastructure ownership

Tagged as: AWS Engineer, CI/CD Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, DevOps Architect, DevOps Engineer, GCP Engineer, GitOps Engineer, GKE Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Kubernetes, Kubernetes Engineer, Platform Architect, Senior Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, SRE, Terraform Engineer