Senior Platform Engineer

As a Senior Platform Engineer , you will help build and maintain the systems churches rely on every day. You’ll contribute to cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, and platform reliability while supporting both existing systems and new platform initiatives. Working closely with the Platform Engineering Manager and engineering teams, you’ll help build secure, scalable infrastructure that empowers churches to stay connected, engaged, and supported in their ministry.

Cloud Infrastructure & Operations Provision and manage cloud infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, and managed databases Maintain consistency across development, staging, and production environments Plan and execute workload migrations across cloud providers with minimal disruption Identify and implement infrastructure cost optimization opportunities CI/CD & Automation Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines across a multi-repository environment Implement deployment strategies such as blue/green, canary, and rolling deployments Develop automation tooling and scripts to reduce manual effort and improve delivery speed Infrastructure as Code Write and maintain Terraform infrastructure across multi-account, multi-environment systems Establish IaC standards, module reuse patterns, and state management practices Drive infrastructure changes through version-controlled, peer-reviewed workflows Reliability & Incident Response Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response efforts Maintain observability through dashboards, alerting, logging, and SLO tracking Conduct post-incident reviews and implement long-term remediations Security & Compliance Manage secrets, certificates, and access controls using least-privilege principles Apply security best practices across infrastructure, containers, and CI/CD pipelines Support audit and compliance initiatives through documentation and access reviews Collaboration & Documentation Partner with engineering teams on infrastructure guidance and service design Create architecture documentation, runbooks, and operational guides Help build self-service platform capabilities for engineering teams A Successful Candidate Will: Be Tech Savvy by anticipating and adopting innovations in business-building digital and technology applications. Be a Nimble Learner by actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder. Drive Results by persisting in accomplishing objectives despite obstacles and setbacks Collaborate by building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.

Communicates Effectively by developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences. Manages Complexity by making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.

Qualifications

: 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering Strong AWS experience with EC2, EKS/ECS, VPC, Route 53, IAM, S3, EBS, and CloudWatch Deep Terraform experience across multi-environment configurations Experience with Kubernetes, ECS, Docker, ArgoCD, and Helm in production environments Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions or similar tools Strong observability and monitoring experience (Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, New Relic, etc.) Solid networking fundamentals including DNS, TLS, VPNs, load balancing, and VPC design Preferred Technical

: Experience as a network engineer Experience with postgres and mysql compatible database administration Experience working with Google/Azure cloud Kubernetes, AWS or Terraform certification Office

Requirements

: We are a fully distributed team (100% remote) with travel sometimes required 1-2 times per year. A stable work environment with designated workspace and access to high-speed internet.