Senior Platform Engineer (Remote, Contract)

About the role

We are looking for a senior platform engineer to design, build, and maintain realistic cloud infrastructure tasks for distributed systems. This contract role is fully remote and offers flexible weekly hours.

Key responsibilities

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

Required profile

• Senior‑level experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, systems engineering, or SRE with ownership of a production platform.
• Strong understanding 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.

Required skills

• Cloud infrastructure
• Distributed systems
• Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• IAM and private networking
• Least‑privilege and service‑to‑service security
• Observability and SLO measurement
• Rolling deployments and rollback strategies
• Disaster recovery planning
• Infrastructure automation and testing tools
• Debugging containerized environments using a programming language