[Remote] Sr. Platform Engineer II
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Smarsh empowers its customers to manage risk and unleash intelligence in their digital communications. They are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer with expertise in AWS cloud networking to design, automate, and operate secure, scalable network infrastructure while supporting FedRAMP compliance requirements.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement secure, scalable AWS network architectures
- Architect hybrid cloud connectivity solutions between on-premises and AWS
- Design high-availability and disaster recovery network architectures
- Define multi-tenant isolation, routing boundaries, and segmentation strategies
- Create and maintain network and architecture diagrams
- Develop and maintain Terraform-based infrastructure for AWS networking resources
- Orchestrate and automate end-to-end infrastructure provisioning across multiple environments
- Design and maintain reusable, environment-aware Terraform modules
- Implement promotion workflows for infrastructure changes across environments
- Ensure consistency, traceability, and auditability of infrastructure changes
- Identify and remediate configuration drift across environments
- Support network designs aligned with FedRAMP and NIST 800-53 requirements
- Implement and review network security controls including NACLs and Security Groups
- Partner with Security and GRC teams to support audits and compliance activities
- Assist in investigating and resolving security incidents involving network systems
- Maintain documentation required for regulated environments
- Optimize AWS network performance, resiliency, and availability
- Design and implement network monitoring and alerting using DataDog, Prometheus, and AWS-native tools
- Participate in troubleshooting and root cause analysis of complex network issues
- Participate in on-call rotation and operational support
- Act as a networking subject matter expert across Platform and Infrastructure teams
- Contribute to architecture reviews, standards, and best practices
- Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance
- Maintain runbooks, SOPs, and operational documentation
Skills
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 8+ years of experience in cloud or platform engineering, with a strong focus on AWS networking
- Knowledge of supporting FedRAMP-compliant environments, including familiarity with compliance controls, audit processes, and security documentation
- Advanced understanding of AWS networking services (VPCs, subnets, routing, Transit Gateway, Route 53, Direct Connect, VPNs)
- Extensive experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
- Proven experience orchestrating and automating infrastructure provisioning across multiple environments (dev, staging, production)
- Experience integrating infrastructure provisioning into CI/CD pipelines
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or Java
- Strong Linux and networking fundamentals
- Excellent system design, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
- Hands-on experience operating or delivering FedRAMP Moderate or High environments
- AWS Advanced Networking – Specialty certification
- Experience with Kubernetes and service mesh networking (Istio, Envoy)
- Familiarity with zero-trust networking models
- Experience supporting multi-account AWS organizations or hybrid-cloud environments
Benefits
- Healthcare insurance: We provide medical, dental, and vision insurance, and a flexible spending account that allows you to set aside pre-tax dollars to pay for eligible out-of-pocket expenses.
- Stock options.
- Personal time off: A healthy work-life balance is critical to your success at the office. Smarsh offers a “take-what-you-need” time off policy as well as flexible work arrangements.
- 401K Match: Smarsh provides a 4% 401K match for which employees are fully vested on day one.
- Sabbatical: The Smarsh sabbatical programme provides a time to recharge, study or simply do something you are passionate about away from the workplace. Employees are eligible after six years of service.
- Recognition: We’re big on kudos for a job well done. Our employee-recognition programme enables co-workers to nominate their peers who best embody our core values for recognition.
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