Senior Platform Engineer

🚨 HIRING: Senior Platform Engineer | Python | Kubernetes | Terraform
🏢 Client: Starbucks
📍 Location: Seattle, WA
🏠 Work Mode: Hybrid
💼 Experience: 8–15 Years
🎯 Role: Senior Platform Engineer
We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Platform Engineer with a strong software engineering and programming mindset to build, automate, and support enterprise-scale cloud platforms. This is a hands-on production role focused on platform engineering, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, automation, reliability, troubleshooting, and cloud technologies.
🔑 MUST-HAVE SKILLS
✅ Advanced Python programming / scripting
✅ Strong Kubernetes, Docker amp; Helm experience
✅ Strong Terraform / Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
✅ Hands-on experience with Azure / AWS / GCP
✅ CI/CD – Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or ArgoCD
✅ GitOps amp; automated deployment workflows
✅ Platform automation, reusable APIs, scripts amp; components
✅ Production-grade platform engineering amp; developer enablement
✅ Monitoring amp; Observability – Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, Datadog, or Splunk
✅ Strong understanding of Networking, Security, IAM amp; Cloud Architecture
✅ Production troubleshooting, incident response amp; RCA
✅ Strong software engineering practices – code reviews, testing, automation amp; documentation
⭐ NICE TO HAVE➕ Kafka➕ Databricks➕ NoSQL Databases➕ Data migration experience➕ Performance tuning➕ High Availability / Disaster Recovery➕ On-call / production support experience➕ Monitoring amp; observability➕ AI fundamentals
🎯 IDEAL CANDIDATE
We are looking for someone who can code, automate, architect, troubleshoot, and operate production platforms — not just someone with infrastructure administration experience. Strong candidates should have experience building scalable, secure, highly available platform solutions and working closely with application, security, architecture, and operations teams.
📩 Interested candidates Please DM me