Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer

8am is a company focused on empowering professionals with innovative technology. They are seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to build and maintain their next-generation platform, ensuring the availability, performance, and security of core service layers that support their payments platform and practice management software.

Responsibilities:

• Automate deployment, monitoring, and management for 100% AWS cloud based infrastructure
• Develop, implement and own developer focused internal tooling and automation as your product
• Share in new feature design as the cloud SME supporting container/k8s first designs
• Create and maintain automated Ci/CD pipelines that streamline the release process and ensure high-quality code is delivered rapidly and continuously in a safe and compliant manner
• Leverage agentic and generative AI and AI tooling in the development, management and enhancement of the Internal Developer and Production Platforms
• Collaborate with developers to identify pain points and bottlenecks in the development process and design and implement solutions that improve the developer experience and increase overall productivity
• Put together comprehensive onboarding programs and training resources to seamlessly integrate new developers into the organization
• Participate in an on-call rotation and provide emergency support occasionally outside of normally scheduled hours as needed
• Evolve and extend observability tools and systems to determine and resolve performance and usability issues

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional technical experience in software engineering, cloud operations, or a related function
• 3+ years of professional experience implementing and maintaining infrastructure in a public cloud environment such as AWS (heavily preferred), Google Cloud Platform, or Azure
• Experience and demonstrated proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• Experience implementing and maintaining Kubernetes clusters (EKS preferred)
• Demonstrated proficiency with networking as it pertains to cloud infrastructure (VPCs, subnets, route tables, NACLs, security groups, peering connections, etc)
• Experience implementing and maintaining relational database systems/clusters (RDS or Aurora preferred)
• Experience with security systems such as Web Application Firewall, HIDS/FIM, intrusion detection systems, and vulnerability detection systems
• Experience developing and maintaining internal tooling consumed by others
• Experience with Linux container technologies, such as Docker, OCI, LXC and ability to administer, build and deploy images in an automated manner
• Proficiency in at least two of the following programming or scripting languages: Ruby, Python, Java, Javascript (NodeJS), Bash
• Working understanding of relational database systems such as MySQL (preferred) and PostgreSQL
• Experience with Kafka is a plus (MSK preferred)
• Experience with generative and agentic AI in an infrastructure management and implementation capacity is a plus
• Experience working in a PCI DSS environment is a plus
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools and technologies to improve workflows, enhance decision-making, or drive innovation