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Helpware

Senior Platform Engineer – DevOps

Helpware

. Rearchitect and codify AWS and Azure infrastructure using OpenTofu/Terraform and Ansible .

Posted 10/26/2026full-timeRemote • Mexico, Brazil, ArgentinaSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive expertise in AWS and Azure infrastructure management, utilizing OpenTofu/Terraform for automation and compliance. Proficient in CI/CD practices, observability tools, and security-first methodologies to enhance platform reliability and efficiency.

Highest-signal resume keywords
AWS Infrastructure ManagementOpenTofu/Terraform ProficiencyKubernetes Operations ExperienceCI/CD Platform ExperienceObservability Tools Expertise

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Hard Skills
OpenTofuTerraformKubernetesCI/CDPolicy-as-CodeObservabilityGitOpsCapacity PlanningInfrastructure as CodeSecurity Practices
Soft Skills
Strong CommunicationDocumentation SkillsMentoring
Tools & Technologies
AWSAzureGitHub ActionsPrometheusGrafanaDatadogOpenTelemetryBackstageHelmArgoCD
Certifications & Qualifications
AWS CertificationKubernetes CertificationAzure CertificationTerraform Certification
Industry Keywords
DevOps EngineeringFinOpsChaos EngineeringIncident CommandError Budget Management

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AnsibleAWSAzureCloudFluxGrafanaKubernetesPrometheusPythonTerraformGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Rearchitect and codify AWS and Azure infrastructure using OpenTofu/Terraform and Ansible
  • Establish module standards, remote state, and GitOps-based plan/apply pipelines
  • Audit cloud estates against AWS and Azure Well-Architected Frameworks and drive remediation
  • Implement policy-as-code security, tagging, and compliance guardrails
  • Build reusable Terraform modules for compute, networking, storage, databases, and identity
  • Define FinOps standards, cost allocation dashboards, rightsizing recommendations, and reserved capacity planning
  • Design and implement observability across metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and OpenTelemetry
  • Define SLIs and SLOs, error budget dashboards, and burn-rate alerting
  • Establish SRE practices, including runbooks, post-incident reviews, and chaos engineering exercises
  • Partner with engineering teams on service instrumentation, alerts, and operational dashboards
  • Build capacity planning models for compute and storage
  • Deploy and operate a developer portal with service catalog, scaffolding templates, runbooks, API documentation, and on-call ownership
  • Build golden paths for service creation, Kubernetes deployment, database provisioning, secrets management, and CI/CD setup
  • Own CI/CD platform templates, reusable workflow libraries, container build and scan pipelines, and environment promotion workflows
  • Operate EKS and/or AKS clusters, Helm standards, admission controllers, RBAC, network policies, and service mesh
  • Build self-service provisioning with Backstage scaffolder actions and Terraform automation
  • Measure platform adoption and iterate on golden paths using engineering feedback
  • Support workload migrations onto the platform
  • Embed security through IaC scanning, secrets management, RBAC, and container hardening
  • Write technical documentation, ADRs, and runbooks
  • Mentor junior platform engineers and contribute to architecture reviews and build-vs-buy decisions

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 5+ years in platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering with direct production ownership on AWS and/or Azure
  • Deep OpenTofu/Terraform proficiency, including module authoring, state management, workspace strategy, remote backends, and CI/CD integration
  • Strong Kubernetes operations experience with EKS and/or AKS cluster lifecycle, Helm, admission controllers, RBAC, network policies, and autoscaling
  • Hands-on observability experience with at least two of Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry, including SLI/SLO definition and alert engineering
  • CI/CD platform experience with GitHub Actions pipeline authoring, reusable workflow design, and container build/scan pipeline ownership
  • GitOps experience with ArgoCD or Flux for Kubernetes continuous delivery
  • IDP experience with Backstage or an equivalent developer portal, GitHub, scaffolding templates, service catalog design, or self-service provisioning tooling
  • Security-first experience with policy-as-code, IaC scanning, secrets management, container hardening, and shift-left security practices
  • Strong communication and documentation skills; comfortable presenting architecture decisions to engineering peers and leadership
  • Desirable: chaos engineering, error budget management, incident command, and capacity planning
  • Desirable: Istio or Linkerd, including mTLS, traffic management, and observability integration
  • Desirable: FinOps tooling and reserved capacity planning experience
  • Desirable: familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure basics, LLM API integration, or model serving
  • Desirable: AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, or Terraform certifications
  • Desirable: Python or Go for platform tooling and CLI development

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Remote work within Mexico, Brazil, or Argentina
  • Full-time employment