You will be the primary technical bridge between Platform Engineering and our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams, setting the standards for how services are deployed, observed, secured, and operated at scale across hybrid cloud and on-prem infrastructure.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Infrastructure as Code
Design, build, and maintain reusable Terraform modules to provision and manage infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and on-prem environments
Establish IaC standards, module versioning strategy, state management practices, and review processes across engineering teams
Drive migration of manually managed infrastructure to fully codified, version-controlled definitions
Deployment Pipelines & Containerized Services
Architect and implement CI/CD pipelines for containerized and Kubernetes-based services, from build through progressive production rollout
Define deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling) and the automation that supports them
Partner with development teams to streamline the path from commit to production while maintaining safety and auditability
Configuration Management
Own configuration management tooling and practices across hybrid environments (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or equivalent) to ensure consistency, repeatability, and drift detection
Standardize secrets management, environment configuration, and golden image/baseline practices across cloud and on-prem fleets
Observability
Design and implement observability patterns (metrics, logging, tracing) that provide actionable signal across distributed, hybrid-cloud services
Define SLIs/SLOs in partnership with SRE and product teams, and build the dashboards and alerting that make them actionable
Reduce mean-time-to-detect (MTTD) and mean-time-to-resolve (MTTR) through better instrumentation, not just more of it
Production Reliability
Act as a senior escalation point for complex production incidents, driving root cause analysis and durable remediation
Lead or contribute to postmortems and translate findings into infrastructure, process, or tooling improvements
Proactively identify and remediate reliability risk before it becomes an incident
Cost & Security Governance
Design and implement cost governance practices — tagging standards, budget alerting, rightsizing, and reserved capacity strategy across AWS, Azure, and on-prem infrastructure
Partner with Security to define and enforce infrastructure security guardrails (IAM least-privilege, network segmentation, secrets handling, compliance controls)
Build automated policy enforcement (e.g., policy-as-code) so governance scales with infrastructure rather than depending on manual review
Cross-Team Leadership
Serve as the primary point of contact between Platform Engineering and SRE teams, aligning on standards, priorities, and shared tooling
Mentor senior and mid-level engineers on infrastructure design, operational excellence, and IaC best practices
Influence infrastructure architecture and technical roadmap at the organizational level
Qualifications
15+ years in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles, with demonstrated staff-level scope and impact
Deep, production-grade experience with both AWS and Azure, plus experience managing on-premises infrastructure in a hybrid model
Expert-level Terraform experience — module design, state management, workspace/environment strategy at scale
Strong experience building CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes and Docker-based workloads
Hands-on experience with configuration management tooling (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or similar)
Proven track record implementing observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, ELK/Splunk) and defining meaningful SLIs/SLOs
Demonstrated experience leading production incident response and driving reliability improvements
Experience designing cloud cost governance and security/compliance frameworks in a multi-cloud or hybrid environment
Strong scripting/programming ability (Python, Go, or Bash) for automation and tooling
Excellent cross-functional communication — able to work directly with SRE, security, and engineering leadership
Preferred
Experience with policy-as-code frameworks (OPA/Gatekeeper, Sentinel)
Relevant certifications (AWS, Azure, CKA/CKAD)
Experience operating infrastructure under regulatory or compliance requirements (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001)
Prior experience in an on-call rotation for critical production systems
History of mentoring engineers or leading infrastructure initiatives across multiple teams
Benefits
ELLKAY offers a comprehensive and competitive benefit package that starts day one!
Including
Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits
Employer-paid Life and LTD
401k w/ matching – once eligibility is met
Work/life balance
Paid Volunteer Program
Flexible working hours
Generous FTO
Remote work options
Employee Discounts
Parental Leave
Gym membership / Exercise class stipends
Our awesome culture includes
Working with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do
Professional growth within
Innovation environment
On site in HQ Free daily lunches
Awards
2025 Top Workplaces Employee Appreciation
2025 Top Workplaces Employee Well-Being
2025 Top Workplaces Professional Development
2025 Top Workplaces Leadership
2026 USA Today Top Workplaces
2026 NJ Top Workplaces
Additional information
At ELLKAY, we are committed to operating as a hybrid workplace, offering employees flexibility in how they structure their time between in-office and remote work. We recognize the significance of fostering connections, collaboration, and creativity within our office culture and its positive impact on our business. Our philosophy of operating as a hybrid workplace underscores our dedication to enabling employees to tailor work-life balance to their individual preferences. For those who do not live within 40 miles of one of our offices, we are open to considering remote work for candidates whose skills and experience strongly align with the role. While we prioritize a hybrid work environment for most roles, we understand the importance of flexibility and are open to remote work for specific positions and specialized skill sets.
For more information on our company, visit www.ELLKAY.com.
ELLKAY LLC is a Smoke-Free Workplace.
ELLKAY, LLC provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Compensation Range: $160,000-$180,000
