Senior Platform Engineer

Foresight

. Design and run the cloud foundation, infrastructure, delivery pipelines and observability for Foresight's platform .

Posted 11/7/2026full-timeUnited StatesSenior💰 $180,000 - $240,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and managing AWS cloud infrastructure, including infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud security practices. Proficient in observability and incident response, ensuring uptime and cost management while adhering to enterprise standards.

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AWS Infrastructure ManagementInfrastructure-As-Code with TerraformCI/CD Pipeline DevelopmentCloud Security PracticesObservability and Incident Response

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Hard Skills

AWSTerraformCI/CDPythonGoECSEKSIAMSecrets ManagementEncryption

Soft Skills

Calm CommunicationPragmatic Decision-Making

Tools & Technologies

OpenTelemetryGrafanaPrometheusLoki

Certifications & Qualifications

SOC 2ISO 27001

Industry Keywords

Cloud InfrastructureProduction InfrastructureCost ManagementMulti-Region DeploymentsData Residency

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudGrafanaPrometheusPythonTerraformGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and run the cloud foundation, infrastructure, delivery pipelines and observability for Foresight's platform
Design AWS environments as code, including networking, compute, managed databases and storage
Build CI/CD pipelines with automated tests, security scanning, preview environments and fast rollback
Build logging, metrics, tracing and alerting while controlling monitoring costs
Implement identity and access controls, secrets management, encryption and audit trails for enterprise standards such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001
Build autoscaling, backups, disaster recovery and incident response capabilities
Deploy in regions where customers' data must remain
Build paved roads, templates and self-service tools for engineers
Automate production changes and avoid manual changes to live systems
Make cloud spend visible by service and customer and manage costs as the company grows
Lead incident response and blameless postmortems, addressing root causes
Help establish infrastructure standards and shape the new platform team

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience building and running production infrastructure on AWS, with ownership of uptime and cost
Strong infrastructure-as-code skills with Terraform, CDK or similar, including reusable modules
Experience running containerized services on AWS, such as ECS, EKS or Lambda
Experience building and owning CI/CD pipelines, including automated testing, deployment strategies and rollback
Hands-on observability experience with logs, metrics, traces, SLOs and alerting
Solid grounding in cloud security: IAM least privilege, network design, secrets management and encryption
Comfortable writing code in Python, Go or a similar language for tooling and automation
Calm and clear communication during incidents and comfort making pragmatic trade-offs on a small team
Preferred locations: New York, San Francisco, and Montreal
Bonus qualifications are optional: OpenTelemetry; Grafana, Prometheus or Loki; SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audits; GitOps; progressive delivery; supply-chain security; multi-region or data-residency deployments; ML and AI infrastructure; FinOps; early-stage or founding-team experience

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health
Dental
Vision
401(k)
PTO
Occasional travel may be required