Senior Platform Engineer (Remote, Contract)

About the role

We are looking for a senior platform engineer to design and operate realistic cloud infrastructure tasks. The role focuses on distributed systems, networking, security, scalability, and reliability in a fully remote, contract‑based environment.

Key responsibilities

• Create realistic cloud infrastructure tasks covering distributed systems, networking, security, scalability, and reliability.
• Build reproducible, containerized environments with reference solutions and intentionally defective variants.
• Define measurable requirements for infrastructure configuration, topology, and runtime behavior.
• Develop deterministic integration, load, security, failure‑injection, deployment, and recovery tests.
• Debug environments, document technical decisions, and review tasks created by other experts.

Required profile

• Senior‑level experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, systems engineering, or SRE with ownership of a production platform.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, scalable APIs, queues, autoscaling, durable storage, and partial‑failure scenarios.
• Practical experience with IAM, private networking, least‑privilege access, and service‑to‑service security.
• Experience with observability, measurable SLOs, rolling deployments, rollback strategies, and disaster recovery.
• Ability to write infrastructure automation or testing tools and debug containerized environments using a programming language.

Required skills

• Cloud infrastructure design and automation
• Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes or similar)
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Private networking and least‑privilege security
• Observability and SLO measurement
• Rolling deployments and rollback strategies
• Disaster recovery planning
• Infrastructure testing and debugging tools