Platform Engineering Specialist
Posted 14hrs ago
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Platform Engineering Specialist building Boldr’s AWS platform, CI/CD, security, and observability. Shipping full-stack applications and integrations for Boldr’s global client-experience services.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build and maintain web applications, API services, serverless functions and scheduled background jobs across front end and back end.
- Build custom RESTful APIs, middleware and third-party integrations using webhooks, websockets and queues.
- Design and manage databases and collaborate with data teams to improve software functionality.
- Own projects end to end across the Software Development Life Cycle, from design to deployment.
- Debug production issues, identify root causes and distinguish code problems from data problems.
- Test and optimize applications for performance and user experience.
- Review code and infrastructure changes to enforce coding standards and engineering best practices.
- Own a multi-account AWS organization, including IAM, networking, DNS, certificates and account guardrails.
- Define and manage infrastructure as code for platform environments.
- Monitor and optimize cloud costs and report on them.
- Build reusable GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines.
- Design environment promotion across development, sandbox and production with automated checks.
- Automate application provisioning, including builds, databases, health checks, sign-in checks and DNS.
- Own GitHub organization security, including access, branch and Actions policies, AWS OIDC federation and secret scanning.
- Integrate security, secrets and sensitive-data scanning into delivery workflows.
- Implement consistent authentication and access control with the central identity provider.
- Set up logging, monitoring and alerting across platform environments.
- Lead incident response, identify root causes and prevent recurrence.
- Maintain runbooks and platform documentation.
- Cross-train teammates and prepare platform areas for handover.
- Pair with engineers, participate in technical design, architecture discussions and roadmap planning.
- Create and manage kanban tickets and participate in Agile Scrum grooming and planning.
- Adopt emerging practices, including AI/LLM-assisted engineering workflows.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years in software engineering, including production full-stack development, with 3+ years in cloud infrastructure, DevOps or platform engineering.
- Strong full-stack skills in TypeScript, JavaScript or Python, with front-end and back-end frameworks (NodeJS, NestJS, Vue/Nuxt or similar).
- Experience building RESTful APIs, third-party integrations and relational database designs (SQL).
- Strong hands-on AWS experience: Organizations and multi-account setups, IAM, VPC, ECS or other container services, RDS, CloudWatch, Route 53.
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, AWS CDK or CloudFormation).
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, ideally GitHub Actions.
- Experience with Docker and containerized deployments.
- Experience with secrets management and security scanning in the delivery path.
- Experience implementing authentication and authorization across systems, ideally with a central identity provider (OIDC/OAuth2).
- Experience with database administration, backups and scaling in production.
- Demonstrated understanding of secure and ethical use of LLMs in software development.
- Thorough functional knowledge and coding experience.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for complex, multi-system issues.
- Architectural thinking and ability to design scalable, robust, maintainable software solutions.
- Ability to work collaboratively, communicate effectively, multitask and prioritize in a fast-paced environment.


















