Senior Platform Engineer (Grade 8)
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What you will do at GoHenry:
Design, implement, and own infrastructure systems end-to-end, from initial design through to production operation.
Write high-quality, well-tested infrastructure code using Terraform, Helm charts, and CI/CD pipelines, actively contributing to team-wide standards.
Take ownership of complex production incidents—diagnosing, resolving, and driving blameless post-incident reviews to prevent recurrence.
Contribute to architectural discussions with well-reasoned proposals backed by practical experience.
Stay current with the cloud ecosystem and bring concrete, considered recommendations for tooling and approaches to the team.
Platform Quality & Reliability
Maintain a consistently high bar for scalability, resilience, and reliability across your areas of ownership.
Implement and improve observability using meaningful metrics, structured logging, and actionable alerting that surfaces real signals.
Ensure all infrastructure is version-controlled, reviewable, and reproducible, following infrastructure-as-code principles throughout.
Design and operate systems with security and compliance in mind—ensuring adherence to industry best practices and supporting audit requirements such as PCI-DSS and SOC 2.
Cross-Team Collaboration
Work closely with tech squads to help them consume platform capabilities effectively and unblock their delivery.
Partner with backend, data, and security engineers to align on shared infrastructure patterns and standards.
Communicate clearly about infrastructure changes, risks, and ongoing work to the teams that depend on the platform.
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