Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Role Overview

• The Senior Platform Engineer drives developer enablement through infrastructure automation, cloud platform optimization, standardized engineering workflows, strong security practices, and mentorship of junior engineers; as a result, improving the reliability, security, and scalability of Nextech products used by our customers.
• Design, implement, and operate scalable, secure CI/CD workflows and deployment strategies that enable teams to deliver Nextech products to customers with greater speed, reliability, and confidence.
• Lead the creation and maintenance of a robust Infrastructure as Code ecosystem that promotes consistency, reusability, ease of use, cost efficiency, and high engineering quality across the platform.
• Embed security and compliance controls across cloud platforms, pipelines, networking, and infrastructure, partnering with engineering and security teams to ensure the secure delivery of customer‑facing products.
• Lead the design and adoption of monitoring, logging, and alerting capabilities to support proactive performance tuning, improve system visibility, and enhance reliability for customers.
• Own platform stability through on call procedures and incident response, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and continuous operational improvement to minimize customer impact and service disruption.
• Design and support highly available, multi‑region architectures with strong resiliency, recoverability, and disaster recovery (DR) patterns to ensure uninterrupted customer access to Nextech products.
• Develop automation for provisioning, configuration, patching, and performance optimization to improve efficiency, consistency, and operational excellence across environments.
• Provide technical leadership by mentoring junior engineers, modeling engineering best practices, and owning delivery quality across shared platform services.
• Communicate technical decisions clearly to engineering teams and leadership, align platform initiatives with business priorities, and anticipate customer needs to deliver long‑term value.

Requirements

• 5+ years hands-on cloud technologies (IaaS/SaaS/PaaS)
• 3+ years Azure cloud experience
• 3+ years working with CI/CD tools (preferably Azure DevOps or Github Actions)
• 2+ years cloud networking (WAF, routing, vWAN, etc.)
• Scripting (PowerShell, Python, .NET)
• Terraform for IaC
• Configuration management (Ansible/Puppet/Chef)
• Strong Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) understanding
• TCP/IP and OSI fluency
• Certificate management
• Experience with infrastructure, network, and application security best practices
• Experience with APM (Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic)
• Proven experience in both Windows and Linux environments
• Agile experience

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• Azure
• Chef
• Cloud
• Linux
• Puppet
• Python
• TCP/IP
• Terraform
• .NET

Benefits

• Generous annual bonus opportunity
• 401(k) with Employer Match
• Flexible Time Off: take time off when you need it without worrying about available hours
• 11 paid holidays
• Your Day Your Way
• Celebrate a day of cultural or social significance to you
• Insurance: Choice of Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Health Savings Account with employer match
• Flexible Spending Account
• 100% Company-Paid Parental leave (After 6 months with the company)
• 100% Company-Paid Life Insurance and Short/Long Term Disability Insurance
• Nextech Luminary Peer Recognition Program
• Wellness Program including discounts on medical premiums
• Employee Assistance Program with free counseling sessions available
• Corporate Discounts on Retail, Travel, and Entertainment