4 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain core platform infrastructure supporting engineering teams across the organization.
- Design and deliver AWS cloud infrastructure, containerized platforms, and cloud-native architectures using ECS and Kubernetes.
- Develop and operate CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code modules, reusable patterns, templates, and automation solutions.
- Create standardized cloud infrastructure patterns that support security, compliance, scalability, and rapid deployment.
- Improve software delivery practices, feedback cycles, observability, and operational excellence.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to refine requirements and deliver developer-productivity solutions.
- Troubleshoot complex distributed-system issues across networking, compute, storage, and application layers.
- Monitor and optimize cloud spend through cost governance and right-sizing recommendations.
- Maintain SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs; improve uptime and reliability engineering practices.
- Participate in incident management, on-call rotations, post-mortems, design reviews, and technical leadership.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and promote knowledge sharing across the platform team.
- Work with emerging technologies including AI, MCP, and RAG.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of hands-on AWS experience focused on infrastructure as code.
- At least 4 years of experience managing and maintaining Linux systems.
- At least 3 years of Python experience for automation and scripting.
- At least 3 years of hands-on Terraform experience, including module development, state management, and multi-environment workflows.
- Practical experience with Git and automated workflows.
- Familiarity with AWS security practices, DNS, secure VPCs, and database security for PostgreSQL or MySQL.
- Experience troubleshooting distributed systems using packet captures, log analysis, performance profiling, and production-failure diagnosis.
- Knowledge of networking fundamentals including VPCs, load balancers, DNS, CDNs, service mesh, and network troubleshooting.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and ELK stacks.
- Incident-management experience, including PagerDuty, on-call rotations, and post-mortem practices.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Preferred qualifications include AWS certifications, experience with scalable application environments and event-driven architectures, Docker and Kubernetes security or orchestration, AI-related services, open-source or internal platform-tool contributions, AWS Organizations, Control Tower, Landing Zones, chaos engineering, game days, and Backstage.
Benefits
- External candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview at a VERSANT Media location before a hiring decision.
- The posting states that compensation may include health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and additional forms of compensation and benefits.
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About Versant
Versant is a Milwaukee-based, privately held branding and marketing services firm that helps employers and consumer brands with strategy, research, and creative execution. Its offerings include brand development, video production, employer branding, internal communications, and recruitment marketing, delivered on a project or retainer basis. Founded in 1962, the company supports organizations seeking to clarify their brand and improve talent and customer communications.