Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Empyrean is a company focused on developing proprietary business system platforms. The Senior Platform Engineer will develop, test, implement, and maintain these platforms while ensuring system stability and improving existing applications.
Responsibilities
- Work within an agile development team working in sprints with deliverables and demonstration of results
- Participate in architectural design meetings
- Work closely with principal/staff engineers when implementing/changing platform features
- Perform code reviews and uphold coding standards
- Implement and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform (primarily AWS), applying reusable IaC module patterns, policy guardrails, and environment promotion standards
- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure delivery, including plan/apply workflows, promotion gates, rollback strategies, and release evidence collection
- Drive pipeline quality by implementing automated checks for security, compliance, policy-as-code, testing, and deployment reliability across team owned and adjacent delivery environments
- Maintain and enhance cloud tooling and shared platform services while implementing improvements to reliability, developer experience, and operational efficiency
- Share platform improvements/changes with the development teams
- Ensure proper documentation of standard procedures
- Maintain existing tools and infrastructure as necessary
- Provide production environment support, including troubleshooting and ensuring system stability
- Mentor other engineers and help raise the skill level of the team
- Stay current with industry trends and making recommendations to help the organization innovate and excel
Skills
- Advanced AWS engineering experience across core services (for example: VPC, IAM, EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, Route53, KMS, and networking/security controls)
- Advanced Terraform experience designing reusable IaC modules, managing remote state, implementing environment strategies, and supporting safe promotion workflows
- Strong understanding of infrastructure-as-code patterns, including module versioning, drift detection, immutable infrastructure, and policy/compliance guardrails
- Advanced CI/CD expertise for both application and infrastructure delivery, including automated validation, promotion gates, rollback/rollback-forward strategies, and release traceability
- Strong automation and scripting skills (for example: Bash, PowerShell, Python) to support platform operations, deployment workflows, and reliability tasks
- Effective cross-functional collaboration with Product, Engineering, QA, Security, and Operations to align priorities, manage risks, and deliver reliable outcomes
- Strong observability and operational troubleshooting skills, including metrics/logging/alerting patterns, incident triage, root-cause analysis, and long-term remediation planning
- Strong understanding of platform reliability, performance, security, and maintainability tradeoffs in cloud-native systems
- Advanced time-management and multi-tasking skills
- Advanced written, verbal communication skills, specifically documentation
- Detail-oriented, quality conscious yet flexible to other's ideas and suggestions
- 5-10 years of experience as a software engineer
- Proven hands-on experience with AWS platform engineering and infrastructure automation at scale
- Proven experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines for both infrastructure and application delivery, including promotion controls, rollback strategies, and release quality checks
- Experience supporting production systems with observability, incident response, root-cause analysis, and long-term remediation ownership
- Experience implementing security and compliance controls in cloud and deployment workflows (for example IAM, secrets management, policy validation, and auditability)
- C# skills with familiarity in .NET Core/.NET ecosystem
- Bachelor's degree preferred (or equivalent years of experience in computer science or completion of related boot camp program)
- Experience with enterprise application environments and cross-functional delivery contexts is preferred
- Experience with benefits administration and Health & Welfare domains is a plus; equivalent combinations of education, experience, and training will be considered
Company Overview
Established in 2006, Empyrean is a leading technology SaaS company empowering organizations with innovative technology and a service-first approach that accelerates employers’ benefits and employee retention strategies. It was founded in 2006, and is headquartered in Houston, Texas, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is http://www.goempyrean.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Empyrean has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2025, 3 in 2024, 1 in 2022, 5 in 2021, 2 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.