Junior Platform Engineer

About the nOps

nOps is a Series A FinOps platform managing over $5B in cloud spend across AWS, Azure, and GCP. We help engineering and finance teams gain real-time cloud cost visibility and achieve autonomous optimization.

The Role

nOps is looking for a Platform Engineer to help own our core cloud infrastructure and platform engineering function. This is a high-autonomy, high-impact role: working alongside our lead software engineer, you'll be responsible for keeping our multi-cloud platform running, secure, and scalable — with an eye toward building infrastructure resilient enough to largely take care of itself. You'll work directly with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams to help drive infrastructure strategy, not just execute tickets. This role suits someone who wants deep ownership over a broad, consequential piece of the stack rather than a narrow slice of a much larger platform team.

What You'll Do

• In this role, you'll spend as much energy building the automation and guardrails that prevent problems as you will responding to the ones that slip through.

• Own and evolve multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including compute, networking, storage, and cost/billing systems

• Design and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (OpenTofu/Terraform) for provisioning, tagging, and governance across environments

• Manage IAM and access controls at scale: trust policies, service control policies (SCPs), role chaining, and OIDC federation

• Operate and scale container orchestration platforms, including EKS, GKE, and ECS clusters supporting production workloads

• Build and maintain data pipelines, including billing/cost data pipelines (e.g., GCP BigQuery, Databricks, CUR/FOCUS exports)

• Support and extend internal AI agent tooling used for DevOps and platform workflows

• Own observability tooling and practices: metrics, logging, and alerting across the platform

• Lead incident response for platform and infrastructure issues, from triage through resolution and postmortem

• Partner with engineering leadership to set technical direction for platform investments and priorities

• Document systems and processes to support knowledge continuity across the org

What We're Looking For

• 3+ years of experience as a platform or infrastructure engineer

• Deep, hands-on experience with AWS IAM (trust policies, SCPs, role chaining, OIDC federation) and broader AWS architecture

• Experience with OpenTelemetry and observability instrumentation

• Strong experience operating Kubernetes in production, ideally EKS or GKE

• Experience with GCP, including billing/cost data and BigQuery

• Proficiency with OpenTofu or Terraform for infrastructure-as-code at scale

• Experience owning CI/CD tooling and pipelines

• A track record of leading or heavily contributing to incident response

• Comfort operating as an autonomous individual contributor who owns infrastructure end to end — someone who can set direction, not just follow it

• Motivated to build systems stable and well-automated enough that they run themselves — your input should be needed only when something actually fails, not for routine upkeep

• Strong written communication skills; this role requires clear documentation and cross-functional coordination

• Bonus: experience with cloud cost management/FinOps domains

• Bonus: experience building or integrating internal AI/agent tooling

Why This Role Matters

This is a foundational role at nOps. Whoever fills it will inherit and shape the infrastructure, tooling, and practices that the entire engineering org depends on daily.