Cloud Platform Engineer

Remote · North America · USD 126,000-213,000 · 3-5 years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 14, 2026

At a glance

We are looking for a skilled Cloud Platform Engineer to join our Runway team.
In this role, you will help design, build, and maintain the infrastructure and developer tooling that powers our engineering organization.
You will play a key role in advancing our Kubernetes-based platform, maturing our GitOps practices, and driving infrastructure-as-code adoption across the business.

Operate, maintain, and improve production-grade Kubernetes clusters across cloud environments; manage cluster lifecycle including upgrades, scaling, and reliability.
Own and extend our ArgoCD-based GitOps workflows; develop and maintain Application Sets, manage sync policies, and enforce deployment standards across environments.
Write, review, and maintain Terraform modules to provision and manage cloud infrastructure; enforce IaC best practices including module reuse, state management, and drift detection.
Monitor platform health, respond to incidents, conduct post-mortems, and drive improvements to availability, performance, and observability.
Collaborate with application teams to onboard services onto the platform; create documentation, runbooks, and self-service tooling that improves developer productivity.
Implement RBAC, network policies, secrets management (e.g., Vault, Sealed Secrets, External Secrets Operator), and ensure infrastructure meets security and compliance requirements.
Integrate platform capabilities with CI pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Tekton) to support end-to-end delivery workflows.

3–5 years of experience in a platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE role
Solid hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments (EKS, GKE, or AKS preferred)
Demonstrable experience with ArgoCD or comparable GitOps tooling (Flux, etc.)
Proficiency in Terraform for cloud infrastructure provisioning; familiarity with remote state, workspaces, and module design
Experience working with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Comfortable writing scripts and automation in Python, Bash, or Go
Familiarity with Helm for Kubernetes package management
Understanding of networking fundamentals: DNS, load balancing, ingress, service mesh concepts
Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to document systems clearly and collaborate across teams

Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, Cilium)
Familiarity with policy-as-code tools such as OPA/Gatekeeper or Kyverno
Exposure to observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki)
Knowledge of Crossplane or other Kubernetes-native IaC approaches
Contributions to open-source projects or internal platform tooling
Experience with multi-cluster or multi-region Kubernetes architectures
Relevant certifications: CKA, CKAD, AWS Solutions Architect, HashiCorp Terraform Associate

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