Platform Engineer

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🕒 March 20

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Virtasant

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51 - 200 employees

🏢 Enterprise

🤝 B2B

Enterprise • B2B

Virtasant is a cloud services and optimization company that helps businesses migrate to, manage, and build on public cloud platforms. They combine a proprietary automation platform with managed services and FinOps expertise to reduce cloud costs (claiming average savings of over 50%), support Cloud FinOps programs, and deliver outcome-based engagements rather than hourly or seat-based billing. Virtasant also provides enterprise AI guidance and partners with major cloud providers (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) to deliver migration, optimization, and 24/7 managed operations.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and maintain reliable and scalable infrastructure solutions. • Partner with engineering teams to ensure platform architecture supports reliability, scalability, and optimal performance. • Evaluate and implement new technologies and tools to enhance the infrastructure. • Set up, maintain, and improve monitoring and alerting systems to detect issues proactively. • Lead incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis efforts for critical platform issues. • Perform post-incident reviews to identify areas for improvement and drive future initiatives. • Develop and implement automation projects (preferably Python, Go, or similar) to streamline platform tasks and minimize manual intervention. • Create scripts for automating system upgrades, health checks, and deployments. • Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Ansible, or Pulumi to manage infrastructure configuration and deployment. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality infrastructure solutions. • Mentor junior engineers and advocate for platform engineering best practices across teams. • Promote a culture of reliability and automation through workshops, documentation, and hands-on guidance. • Drive initiatives to enhance platform reliability, capacity planning, and service performance. • Participate in disaster recovery planning and execution. • Stay updated with industry trends, tools, and technologies to continually improve platform capabilities.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience). • 8+ years of industry experience, including roles as a Software Engineer, SRE, or Platform Engineer. • At least 3+ years of experience in platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure roles with large-scale, mission-critical environments. • Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix systems, networking, and core system internals. • Experience with one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java). • Advanced skills in Bash scripting for task automation. • Proficiency with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes). • Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack). • Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools and workflows (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI).

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements