Platform Engineer VI

Title: Platform Engineer VI

Location: CO-Greenwood Village

Job Description:

he data they need. Monitor data availability, freshness, and quality for all sources feeding the IIA Data Lake.

Handle upstream data availability issues: identify when sources stop landing, coordinate with upstream data owners for resolution.

Support data pipeline backfills and recovery when issues are detected.

Coordinate with data engineering team on pipeline health checks and SLA monitoring.


Leadership

Lead and grow the offshore platform engineering team. Mentor junior engineers and establish operational standards.

Define and enforce runbooks, escalation procedures, and operational best practices for the offshore team to follow during production support.

Coordinate across time zones with onshore platform engineers, data engineers, and data scientists to ensure smooth handoffs.

Participate in architectural decisions and provide input on infrastructure design based on operational experience.

Perform other duties as required.

This is a fully remote position and will pay between 30-40 LPA

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Required Skills & Experience

Strong communication skills with ability to lead across time zones and coordinate with onshore teams

Expert-level experience with AWS services: EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Glue, Athena, EMR, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch

Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred, CloudFormation acceptable)

Experience with production monitoring, alerting, and incident response at scale

Experience with cost monitoring and optimization in AWS environments

Experience with containerization (Docker) and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI preferred)

Proficiency with Linux-based operating systems and shell scripting

Experience managing and mentoring engineering teams

Demonstrated ability to make independent technical decisions and triage production issues without escalation

Understanding of data pipeline architectures (batch and streaming) and common failure modes

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

Experience with Apache Spark (Scala preferred) for distributed data processing

Experience with Apache Kafka or similar streaming platforms

Experience with Airflow or similar workflow orchestration platforms

Experience with graph databases (AWS Neptune, Neo4j)

Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure requirements (model serving, token cost monitoring, artifact management)

Experience in the telecommunications industry or other large-scale network operations environments

Experience with LLM/agent deployment infrastructure and observability

AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or similar)

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.