Lead Platform Automation Engineer (AWS/Terraform)

Location: Hybrid in Owings Mills, Maryland, with two days per week on-site and up to three days per week from home. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship.

Base salary: $122,000–$209,000 annually for Maryland, Colorado, Washington, and remote workers; other ranges apply to Washington, D.C., New York, and California.

Company

hirify.global is a global asset management organization providing equity, fixed income, multi-asset, and investment solutions to individuals, advisors, institutions, and retirement plan sponsors.

What you will do

• Design and maintain reusable automation patterns for databases, integration, middleware, messaging, and shared enterprise services.
• Build self-service developer workflows, platform interfaces, templates, onboarding paths, and Terraform infrastructure-as-code modules for AWS services.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines for provisioning, testing, promotion, release, configuration, and ongoing platform changes.
• Automate platform lifecycle activities including provisioning, patching, scaling, backup integration, policy enforcement, decommissioning, and technical debt remediation.
• Embed security, resiliency, observability, compliance, tagging, cost management, and operational standards into automation.
• Collaborate with application, platform, cloud, security, architecture, and product teams; troubleshoot complex issues, document solutions, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

• Typically 7+ years of experience designing, building, automating, or operating enterprise technology platforms.
• Experience building self-service developer workflows, reusable modules, templates, platform APIs, or internal developer platform capabilities.
• Extensive hands-on experience with CI/CD, including pipeline design, automated testing, controlled promotion, release automation, and secure deployment patterns.
• Strong Terraform and infrastructure-as-code experience covering provisioning, configuration, policy enforcement, and lifecycle management.
• Broad experience automating AWS infrastructure and platform services using AWS-native capabilities, APIs, scripting, and integration patterns.
• Working knowledge of multiple enterprise platform domains, including databases, integration, middleware, messaging, eventing, observability, and shared runtime services.
• Strong scripting or programming skills in one or more of Python, Groovy, Java, Go, or TypeScript.
• Understanding of cloud networking, identity and access management, secrets management, logging, monitoring, and platform security fundamentals.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Agile delivery experience and familiarity with Jira, backlog refinement, story delivery, and iterative engineering improvements.
• AWS, Terraform, DevOps, or platform engineering certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work schedule with up to three days per week from home.
• Annual bonus eligibility and competitive compensation.
• Retirement plan, health and wellness benefits, and online therapy.
• Paid time off for vacation, illness, medical appointments, and volunteering.
• Family care resources, including fertility and adoption benefits.
• Inclusive work environment with equal opportunity and emphasis on collaboration, diversity, and professional development.