Senior Cloud Platform Engineer
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Senior Cloud Platform Engineer designing, building, and evolving cloud infrastructure platforms at Strategic Education, Inc. Collaborating with development teams to enhance agility and security in their cloud environments.
Responsibilities:
- Working under the direction of the Platform Engineering Manager, the Senior Cloud Platform Engineer will:
- Advanced experience using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Design, implement, and operate cloud infrastructure platforms that support application teams across multiple workloads and environments
- Build and maintain Terraform-based infrastructure as code, emphasizing modularity, reusability, and consistency
- Experience supporting and deploying a range of public cloud computing services, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS deployments
- Demonstrable skill and understanding of the concepts of Infrastructure as Code, idempotency, and repeatable tooling
- Strong ability to troubleshoot complex issues stemming from both automation and cloud infrastructure
- Advanced experience and understanding of high-availability, high-performance, multi-regional systems
- Develop and manage GitLab CI pipelines used to plan, validate, and deploy infrastructure and platform components
- Create self-service capabilities that enable development teams to provision and manage infrastructure safely with minimal manual intervention
- Partner with application teams to shift infrastructure and operational concerns left, embedding best practices early in the development lifecycle
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across automation pipelines, infrastructure code, and cloud environments
- Participate in on-call rotation, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews to continuously improve platform reliability
- Contribute to compliance, security, and operational reviews by designing guardrails directly into platform tooling
- Continuously improve internal tooling, standards, and documentation to support platform adoption and developer productivity
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in cloud or platform engineering roles
- Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, with Terraform as a primary tool
- Proven experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Experience building or operating internal platforms or shared infrastructure tooling used by multiple development teams
- Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts (compute, networking, storage, identity, and security), independent of provider
- Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, automation, and deployment pipelines
- Familiarity with containerized workloads and orchestration concepts (e.g., Kubernetes), even if not a primary specialization
- Ability to collaborate effectively with developers and translate platform capabilities into practical, usable solutions
- Strong communication skills and a pragmatic, engineering-first approach to problem solving
- Exposure to platform engineering concepts such as: Golden paths, Opinionated templates, Guardrails vs. gates
Benefits:
- Medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans
- Well-being incentives
- Parental leave
- Paid time off
- Certain paid holidays
- Tax saving accounts (FSA, HSA)
- 401(k) retirement benefit
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Tuition assistance
- Entertainment and retail discounts
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