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Cloud Platform Engineer – Information Security and Networks

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 7 Mar 2025

About the role

Who are we?
Smarsh empowers its customers to manage risk and unleash intelligence in their digital communications. Our growing community of over 6500 organizations in regulated industries counts on Smarsh every day to help them spot compliance, legal or reputational risks in 80+ communication channels before those risks become regulatory fines or headlines. Relentless innovation has fueled our journey to consistent leadership recognition from analysts like Gartner and Forrester, and our sustained, aggressive growth has landed Smarsh in the annual Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing American companies since 2008.
Summary
We are seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to architect, build, and maintain next-generation hybrid cloud platform. This role combines deep technical expertise in Information Security, Identity and Access Management, cloud architecture, data center infrastructure, networks, and DevOps practices while ensuring platform reliability, security, and operational excellence. Periodic international travel may be required.

How will you contribute?

Platform Architecture (40%)
Design and Implementation of Identity and Access Management environments
Design and implement cloud accounts for multiple customers, primarily in AWS
Ensure multi-tenant isolation and resource management
Identify and design system security requirements
Develop standard operating procedures and protocols
Develop technical solutions and new security tools to help mitigate security vulnerabilities and automate repeatable tasks
Monitor and implement security events and alerts of computer systems, infrastructure, and applications
Create and maintain comprehensive architectural diagrams
Lead security incidents
Architect high-availability solutions, ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery
Design and implement security frameworks aligned with compliance requirements
Optimize platform performance and resource utilization across environments
Define integration patterns for microservices architectures
Infrastructure Automation (40%)
Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform for AWS resources
Implement GitOps workflows
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment
Automate routine operational tasks using shell scripting
Manage backup and recovery procedures across the platform
Operations & Observability (20%)
Design and implement monitoring solutions using Prometheus and DataDog
Create and maintain alerting systems and dashboards
Lead troubleshooting of complex platform issues
Participate in on-call rotation
Maintain operational documentation and runbooks

What will you bring?

Core Platform Knowledge
6+ years of experience in platform/cloud engineering
Expert-level experience with AWS enterprise deployments
Deep knowledge of AWS services and best practices, including Control Tower and IAM
Deployment and Delivery expertise, including Kubernetes, Terraform, and Helm
Strong background in infrastructure automation
Expert knowledge of network architecture and security
Knowledge of on-premises and hybrid cloud network design and architecture