Senior Platform Engineer (AWS/Azure)

Location: Remote, US; work across multiple time zones in a hybrid or remote work environment. Travel may be required based on company needs.

Annual US base salary: $110,000–$117,000.

Company

hirify.global develops healthcare payer products supported by multi-account, multi-region cloud platforms.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain AWS and Azure platform automation and reusable, versioned, auditable infrastructure modules.
• Build self-service tooling, deployment templates, guardrails, reference architectures, and CI/CD pipelines for secure, reproducible infrastructure deployments.
• Design cross-account and cross-subscription identity, access, least-privilege, policy, and tagging governance patterns.
• Own infrastructure projects from proposal through production, communicate risks, and mentor engineers through design and code reviews.
• Operate observability tooling, participate in L3 on-call escalation, troubleshoot infrastructure incidents, and convert findings into automation, runbooks, and platform improvements.
• Encode FedRAMP, HIPAA, and SOC 2 controls into infrastructure and policy-as-code, integrate security checks, and contribute to FinOps and AI-assisted engineering practices.

Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on cloud engineering experience, with deep expertise in AWS or Azure and working knowledge of the other.
• Strong AWS CDK experience in Python.
• End-to-end ownership and delivery of multi-month infrastructure projects.
• Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform and/or CloudFormation or Bicep/ARM in addition to CDK.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent.
• Experience designing AWS IAM and Azure Entra ID/RBAC patterns, including cross-account or cross-subscription access and least-privilege enforcement.
• Experience with containerized cloud-native environments and Kubernetes, including EKS and/or AKS.
• Configuration management experience with SaltStack is essential; Ansible, Chef, or Puppet is accepted with willingness to learn Salt.
• Python scripting is required; Bash or PowerShell experience is required as scripting capability.
• Security-first approach, experience integrating security tooling into development and deployment cycles, and strong troubleshooting and communication skills, including escalated L3 infrastructure incident resolution.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Tooling and automation for metrics, dashboards, and alerting using AWS and Azure native monitoring services.
• Mentoring or technical leadership experience.
• Experience with regulated environments and infrastructure implications of FedRAMP, HIPAA, and SOC 2.
• FinOps and cost governance experience; AWS or Azure certifications.
• Healthcare technology or digital health platform experience.
• Comfort with ambiguity, continuous learning, collaboration across teams, early risk identification, production-grade engineering, and learning from incidents.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, permanent position classified as exempt under US FLSA.
• Remote work environment with collaboration across multiple time zones and extended periods using computer and video technology.
• Occasional office movement and possible travel depending on company needs.
• Pre-employment criminal background check may be required.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.