Senior Platform Engineer – Cloud Infrastructure

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October 11

🏄 California – Remote

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💵 $160k - $180k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

☁️ Cloud Engineer

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United Talent Agency

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B2B • Entertainment • Media

United Talent Agency is a leading global talent, sports, entertainment, and advisory company. It represents artists, athletes, storytellers, and brands whose voices and vision define culture and shape the world. As a full-service agency, UTA connects clients to opportunities across entertainment, media, and business sectors.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1991

🤝 B2B

📱 Media

📋 Description

• Lead the architecture and automation of cloud infrastructure in AWS using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code principles • Define and maintain platform modules that set security, compliance, and operational baselines for services • Drive the migration of existing Azure infrastructure and applications to AWS with minimal downtime and maximum resiliency • Design and manage secure, scalable infrastructure components including databases (RDS/Postgres), serverless (Lambdas), container platforms (ECS/EKS), authentication (IAM/SSO), and networking • Establish operational patterns for monitoring, logging, and incident response across distributed environments • Champion the use of self-service tooling and ChatOps, enabling teams to manage infrastructure and deployments through Slack-based workflows • Implement robust CI/CD pipelines and release practices that integrate with GitHub Actions, Terraform, and other automation tools • Maintain familiarity with leading cloud monitoring and observability tools—including Datadog, AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, and similar platforms—to ensure effective infrastructure health monitoring, alerting, and incident management across multi-cloud environments • Lead efforts in cost optimization, performance tuning, and scaling strategies across multiple environments • Architect, build, and maintain automation solutions for deploying applications and services using trunk-based GitHub repositories and modern CI/CD tooling • Own end-to-end deployment workflows, ensuring that feature branches are reliably deployed to isolated environments and production deployments occur automatically on merges to main • Develop, support, and improve ChatOps integrations, enabling developers to manage deployments, rollback, and monitor services directly from Slack or other chat platforms • Lead the design and implementation of 'Make New App' vending machine style automations within Slack, enabling self-service provisioning of new applications with standardized infrastructure, security, monitoring, and deployment pipelines. • Provide ongoing support for deployment pipelines, collaborating with application teams to resolve issues and enhance developer experience and deployment reliability • Ensure all automation solutions align with platform security, compliance, and operational standards, partnering closely with Operations and Security teams • Establish and enforce engineering standards for IaC, container management, security configurations, and operational practices • Mentor and coach engineers, sharing best practices in platform automation, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps • Lead technical discussions, design reviews, and knowledge-sharing sessions across teams • Partner closely with application teams, product, and security functions to ensure infrastructure aligns with organizational and business goals • Partner closely with Operations and Security teams to ensure compliance, resilience, and operational excellence across all environments • Evaluate emerging cloud and platform technologies, guiding adoption strategies to maintain modern, efficient, and secure infrastructure • Shape the long-term platform vision, balancing developer experience, system reliability, and organizational scalability

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience • 7+ years in platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering, with at least 3+ years in a senior or technical leadership capacity • Proven expertise with AWS services (ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS/Postgres, API Gateway, S3, IAM) • Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, including building and maintaining reusable modules and operating in monorepo environments • Experience designing, operating, and migrating enterprise-grade platforms with a focus on reliability, scalability, and security • Practical knowledge of modern CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, Terraform Cloud, or similar) • Familiarity with Azure and cloud-to-cloud migrations is a plus. • Demonstrated success in creating or enhancing self-service developer platforms and ChatOps automations • Strong communication and collaboration skills with an ability to influence across technical and business teams • Ability to lead while staying technically hands-on when needed.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive benefits and programs to support your well-being • Experience working in a collaborative environment with room to grow