About the Role We're looking for a motivated Platform Engineer who wants to influence their own development and contribute to shaping the future of our company. You will be accountable for building and evolving our internal developer platform, enabling engineering teams to self-serve infrastructure and deployments efficiently. You bring to Applaudo the following competencies: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. - 4+ years of experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Infrastructure Engineer with focus on developer enablement. - Deep expertise in AWS, especially working with services like ECS, IAM, and supporting microservices architectures. - Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform to automate cloud infrastructure provisioning. - Hands-on experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions, and CI/CD pipeline orchestration in production environments. - Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or configuration formats like YAML and JSON for automation. - Experience building internal developer platforms, ideally using frameworks like Backstage. - Strong understanding of Platform as a Service (PaaS) principles and creating self-service tools to streamline developer workflows. - Experience developing modular, reusable infrastructure templates to enable scalable and consistent resource provisioning. - Familiarity with automatic provisioning logic, such as conditional resource deployment based on developer inputs. - Excellent communication and collaboration skills; fluent in English (advanced). Responsibilities: - Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, ensuring secure, automated delivery across services. - Create reusable infrastructure templates for provisioning environments like ECS, based on dynamic developer inputs. - Automate resource provisioning workflows, including conditional logic and default resource allocation. - Develop self-service tools and dashboards that reduce support tickets and empower development teams. - Contribute to the evolution of the platform by continuously implementing updates and integrating new cloud-native technologies. - Collaborate with security and compliance teams to integrate guardrails and standards into platform tooling. - Support internal adoption of Backstage or similar developer portal frameworks to centralize resources and documentation. - Drive initiatives to reduce manual operations and increase developer velocity through automation and platform reliability. About Us At Applaudo Studios, we value trust, communication, respect, excellence, and teamwork. We believe in treating each other with respect and admiration without asking. We offer a range of benefits to show our appreciation for your hard work and commitment, including work from home options, celebrations, entertainment area, great work environment, and private medical insurance. Our team is passionate about what they do, and we're excited about the opportunity to welcome you to our community. This is a mid-senior level, full-time position within the IT Services and IT Consulting industry.