Lead Platform Infrastructure Engineer at Jobgether
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Jul 16, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior infrastructure engineering role focused on designing, deploying, and operating a containerized platform built for regulated, on-premises, and customer-managed environments. Day-to-day work spans Infrastructure-as-Code, Kubernetes-based deployments, CI/CD pipelines, secrets and certificate management, GPU/AI workload infrastructure, and security hardening. Best suited to a hands-on engineer with deep production Kubernetes experience who has also set direction for a platform or infrastructure function.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 7,200 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,500–10,800
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The title 'Lead Platform Infrastructure Engineer' carries no standard seniority level word (Lead here describes a functional role, not a career band), so the title states no level. The 8–12+ years requirement and the expectation of at least 2 years leading or defining direction for a platform function support a Senior classification — the scope is deep but scoped to a single platform function, not org-wide technical authority.
SOC classification is Medium-confidence. The role writes and ships IaC, automation code, and CI/CD systems (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but also has a strong operational mandate — on-call, SLOs, incident response, capacity planning — that overlaps with 15-1244. The primary deliverable is building and owning the platform (code and architecture), so 15-1252 is the primary pick with 15-1244 as the runner-up.
The Requirements section lists a broad set of technologies together ('technologies such as Kubernetes, K3s, Helm, Terraform, Packer, Ansible, CI/CD platforms, Vault, SOPS, PKI/mTLS, networking tools, object storage, and observability platforms'). Because this list sits under the hard Requirements heading and uses 'such as' only to introduce the enumeration (not to make the whole block optional), all named tools are treated as hard gates. 'Networking tools', 'object storage', and 'observability platforms' are generic categories with no specific product named and are therefore omitted from the skills list.
AWS is called out as 'beneficial' (preferred) in the Requirements section, so it is marked preferred. Azure and GCP are listed as alternatives as common peer cloud platforms.
Kubernetes network policies, namespace isolation, multi-environment rollouts, GPU scheduling, and AI workload optimization are explicitly called 'a plus' and are marked preferred. GPU scheduling is retained as the most concrete named capability from that list; namespace isolation and multi-environment rollouts are operational practices rather than named tools and are omitted.
Experience in regulated industries (financial services, banking, healthcare, government) is 'strongly preferred' per the posting — this is a soft gate and is not representable as a named technology skill, so it is captured here instead.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree … or equivalent practical experience,' which means a degree is not a hard gate; the degree requirement is set to None.
No compensation figures are provided beyond 'competitive compensation and benefits package.'
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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