Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Kansas City, MO (Onsite)

Contract Through December 2026

No C2C • No Third Parties • No Sponsorship Available

Are you the engineer everyone calls when infrastructure needs to be automated, deployments need to be simplified, or developer productivity needs to improve?

We're looking for a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to help build and scale an internal developer platform that enables engineering teams to deploy faster, automate more, and operate more reliably.

This role is heavily focused on cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, platform automation, and developer experience. You'll work on complex engineering challenges, build reusable solutions, improve software delivery processes, and help establish engineering standards used across the organization.

What You'll Be Doing

• Designing and automating cloud infrastructure at scale
• Building reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform or Pulumi
• Creating and improving CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Partnering with development teams to improve developer experience
• Building self-service infrastructure and platform capabilities
• Driving reliability, observability, monitoring, and operational excellence
• Leading technical initiatives and mentoring other engineers
• Evaluating and implementing modern platform engineering and DevOps tools
• Helping teams reduce deployment risk and improve delivery speed

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of Platform Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or SRE experience
• Strong experience with GCP, Azure, or AWS
• Advanced Terraform and/or Pulumi experience
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, PowerShell, Go, or similar languages
• Experience building and maintaining enterprise CI/CD pipelines
• Strong understanding of Git, code reviews, branching strategies, and release management
• Experience with cloud networking, DNS, certificates, and security best practices
• Experience creating reusable platforms, modules, templates, and engineering standards
• Strong troubleshooting, architecture, and problem-solving skills

Ideal Backgrounds

• Platform Engineer
• Senior DevOps Engineer
• Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
• Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
• Infrastructure Automation Engineer
• Developer Platform Engineer
• Cloud Platform Architect

This position is ideal for engineers who enjoy building the platforms, automation, and tooling that make development teams more productive and systems more reliable.