What are the responsibilities and job description for the Platform Engineer position at Placed?
Our valued client in the Denver Tech Center is seeking two (2) Platform Engineers on a six-month contract to hire basis. This is hybrid position that requires you to reside in the Denver Metro Area.
Position Summary
We are seeking a platform engineer who designs, builds, and runs the internal developer platform the rest of engineering runs on, so other teams can provision infrastructure, ship code, and get the data they need on their own. Treat the platform itself like a product built to cut down on developer friction and busywork, and the rest of the role follows from there.
Key Responsibilities
• Build the internal developer platform (IDP): create and maintain self-service workflows, often called Golden Paths, that let developers provision infrastructure and ship code on their own
• Manage infrastructure as code: automate provisioning and configuration with Terraform or similar tools, so environments stay consistent and repeatable
• Run CI/CD pipelines: design and maintain the build, test, and deployment pipelines that let engineering ship reliably and often, applying GitOps-style practices where it fits
• Build in observability: set up monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting so teams can see what is happening in their own services
• Report on platform performance: build metrics endpoints and dashboards that make cost, reliability, and delivery performance visible to the rest of the organization on a regular cadence
• Bake in security and access control: integrate secrets management, least-privilege access, and role-based access control (RBAC) directly into the platform
• Manage cost: track platform spend and help the team make informed tradeoffs on cloud costs
• Support containerized workloads: build and maintain the container-based infrastructure most services deploy onto
Required Qualifications
• Programming and automation: strong Python skills, with real experience automating workflows and working against APIs
• Cloud and containers: hands-on experience with a major cloud provider (AWS or Azure) and building on containerized infrastructure
• CI/CD and delivery practices: solid experience designing and running pipelines, with modern, identity-based authentication for deployments
• Infrastructure as code: experience automating provisioning and configuration with Terraform or similar tools
• Security mindset: treats security, secrets management, and access control as a core part of the build
• Cost awareness: comfortable tracking cloud spend and applying FinOps or similar cost-management practices to help the team make informed tradeoffs
• Reporting and transparency: experience exposing performance or usage metrics through APIs or dashboards that people outside the immediate team can see and use
• Working with developers: comfortable treating the platform's users as customers: gathering feedback, explaining tradeoffs, and adjusting course based on what actually helps them ship
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience building or maintaining self-hosted CI/CD infrastructure across cloud and on-premises environments
• Experience with observability or log management platforms
• Familiarity with hybrid on-premises and cloud environments
• Exposure to cloud cost management or FinOps practices
• Certifications are a plus but not weighted heavily. Hands-on experience matters more.