Platform Engineer VI – Data Services

Location: Denver, CO – Onsite
Local candidates only

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced Platform Engineer VI – Data Services to serve as a senior platform engineering lead supporting data platforms, AI/agent infrastructure, production operations, and automation.

The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in AWS, Terraform, Python, data pipelines, monitoring, containerization, CI/CD, and Linux, along with the ability to make independent technical decisions and lead engineering teams across time zones.

Key Responsibilities

Production Support & Operations

• Own production support for infrastructure, data pipelines, and AI/agent platforms.
• Monitor pipeline health, data freshness, infrastructure availability, and system performance.
• Triage and resolve production incidents independently.
• Maintain monitoring dashboards, alerts, and operational processes.

Cloud & Cost Optimization

• Manage and optimize AWS infrastructure across compute, storage, networking, and related services.
• Monitor AWS infrastructure and AI/compute costs and identify optimization opportunities.
• Develop cost dashboards and support capacity and cost modeling initiatives.
• Right-size infrastructure based on usage patterns and performance requirements.

Data Pipeline & Platform Engineering

• Monitor data availability, freshness, quality, and pipeline performance.
• Support pipeline recovery, backfills, and troubleshooting.
• Work with data engineering teams to establish health checks and SLA monitoring.
• Support batch and streaming data pipeline architectures.

Application Development & Automation

• Develop Python-based scripts, CLIs, services, and automation utilities.
• Build integration services connecting data platforms with upstream and downstream systems.
• Develop solutions using REST APIs and AWS SDKs such as boto3.
• Create automated tests for application and infrastructure code.

Leadership

• Lead and mentor platform engineering teams.
• Establish runbooks, escalation procedures, and operational standards.
• Coordinate effectively with engineering, data, and data science teams.
• Participate in architecture and infrastructure design decisions.

Required Skills

• Expert experience with AWS, including:
  • EC2
  • S3
  • IAM
  • VPC
  • Glue
  • Athena
  • EMR
  • Secrets Manager
  • CloudWatch
• Strong Terraform experience; CloudFormation is acceptable.
• Strong production monitoring, alerting, and incident response experience.
• Experience with AWS cost monitoring and optimization.
• Experience with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong Linux and shell scripting skills.
• Proficiency in Python or a comparable programming language.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including Git, code reviews, modular design, dependency management, and maintainable code.
• Experience writing unit and integration tests and integrating them into CI/CD.
• Experience developing integrations using REST APIs and AWS SDKs.
• Strong understanding of batch and streaming data pipelines.
• Experience leading and mentoring engineering teams.
• Ability to make independent technical decisions and troubleshoot production issues.

Preferred Skills

• Apache Spark, preferably Scala.
• Apache Kafka or similar streaming technologies.
• Airflow or similar workflow orchestration platforms.
• Graph databases such as AWS Neptune or Neo4j.
• AI/ML infrastructure and model-serving environments.
• LLM/AI agent deployment infrastructure and observability.
• Telecommunications or large-scale network operations experience.
• FastAPI, Flask, or similar production API frameworks.
• AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of platform/infrastructure engineering experience with a bachelor's degree, including 2+ years in a lead or senior role.
• With a master's degree, 6+ years of platform/infrastructure engineering experience, including 2+ years in a lead or senior role.