Platform Engineer
Stream Companies · United States
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- Full-time
- $110,000 / year
- United States
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Platform Engineer
Stream Companies · United States
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Job highlights
- Own AWS infrastructure, ensuring performance and availability.
- Manage CI/CD pipelines and automated quality checks.
- Optimize cloud spend and ensure security protocols.
- Collaborate with developers on technical debt mitigation.
- Support platform stability for marketing technology.
About the role
About Stream Companies
Stream Companies is a full-service, fully integrated advertising agency built for brands that want to move forward. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, we partner with clients to launch, position, and manage brands through both full-service relationships and project-based work. We operate with an entrepreneurial mindset—collaborative, curious, and always pushing what’s next. By combining strategic planning, creative development, media planning and buying, digital, interactive, television, production, and co-op management with cutting-edge technology, we deliver integrated solutions designed for today’s marketing challenges.About The Role
Stream Companies is seeking a Platform Engineer to serve as the primary guardian of our infrastructure and deployment stability for our best-in-class marketing technology platform that serves the automotive retail sector. This role is a strategic evolution development functions —designed for an engineer who prioritizes AWS architecture but understands that a "bulletproof" platform requires healthy CI/CD and automated quality checks. If you are a cloud specialist who wants more autonomy and less red tape, this is your seat at the table. You will lead our infrastructure strategy while collaborating with our dev team to ensure our deployment pipelines and testing suites are second to none.The Mission
Your primary objective is the stability, security, and cost-efficiency of our AWS ecosystem. While your "home base" is the cloud, you will play a vital role in supporting our Quality Control (QC) and CI/CD processes to ensure that when we ship code, it stays shipped.What You'll Do
AWS & Infrastructure Authority (The Priority)
- Architect & Optimize: Take full ownership of our AWS environments (EC2, RDS, S3, ELB, Lambda) to ensure peak performance and 99.9% availability.
- Financial Stewardship: Proactively monitor and optimize cloud spend, treating vendor costs with a high degree of strategic ownership.
- Security & Governance: Maintain servers, load balancers, and security protocols (IAM, AWS Cognito) to ensure a secure, high-availability cloud presence.
Deployment & Quality Support
- CI/CD Management: Maintain and harden our deployment pipelines to ensure seamless, low-risk releases.
- Quality Guardrails: Act as the technical steward for our automated testing tools (Pest PHP and Playwright). You aren't necessarily writing every test, but you are ensuring the "machine" that runs them is fast and reliable.
Engineering Collaboration
- Technical Debt Mitigation: Work alongside the dev team to identify infrastructure-related bottlenecks or framework issues that impact performance.
- Platform Support: Provide a "systems-eye view" during sprints, helping the team troubleshoot environment-specific bugs or data pipeline optimizations (Snowflake/Aurora).
Qualifications
- Cloud Mastery: 5+ years of deep professional experience with AWS. You should be comfortable designing failover architectures and managing complex cloud networking. Bonus for experience in Azure Cloud Environment.
- Systems Expertise: Hands-on experience configuring and maintaining Linux servers. You are a power user of the command line for debugging and system health monitoring.
- CI/CD & Automation: Experience managing deployment workflows and an interest in (or exposure to) automated testing frameworks like Pest or Playwright.
- Functional Code Awareness: You don’t need to be a Senior Full-Stack Dev, but you should be "literate" in PHP and JavaScript. You can read a stack trace, understand a pull request, and help troubleshoot application issues within a Laravel/Vue environment.
- Bonus Points: Experience with AWS Glue, Snowflake, or migrating legacy identity systems to modern solutions like AWS Cognito.
Key skills/competency
- Platform Engineer
- AWS Architecture
- CI/CD
- Infrastructure
- Cloud Security
- Linux Servers
- Automated Testing
- PHP
- JavaScript
- System Monitoring
Skills & topics
- Platform Engineer
- AWS
- Cloud
- Infrastructure
- DevOps
- CI/CD
- Linux
- PHP
- JavaScript
- Automation
How to get hired
- Tailor your resume: Highlight your AWS expertise, CI/CD experience, and PHP/JavaScript literacy.
- Showcase cloud projects: Quantify your impact on infrastructure stability and cost optimization.
- Prepare for technical questions: Be ready to discuss AWS services, Linux systems, and deployment strategies.
- Demonstrate collaboration: Emphasize your ability to work with development teams on troubleshooting and improvements.
- Research Stream Companies: Understand their culture and how your skills align with their mission.
Technical preparation
Master AWS services: EC2, RDS, S3, ELB, Lambda, IAM.,Practice Linux command line for debugging.,Configure and maintain CI/CD pipelines.,Understand PHP/JavaScript for troubleshooting.
Behavioral questions
Describe a complex AWS architecture you designed.,How do you ensure platform security and availability?,How do you collaborate with development teams?,Explain your approach to optimizing cloud costs.
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Frequently asked questions
- What are the core responsibilities of a Platform Engineer at Stream Companies?
- The Platform Engineer at Stream Companies is primarily responsible for the stability, security, and cost-efficiency of the AWS ecosystem. This includes architecting and optimizing AWS environments, managing CI/CD pipelines, and supporting automated testing to ensure seamless code releases.
- What specific AWS services will I be working with as a Platform Engineer at Stream Companies?
- As a Platform Engineer at Stream Companies, you will have ownership of AWS environments including EC2, RDS, S3, ELB, and Lambda. You will also work with security protocols like IAM and AWS Cognito, and potentially AWS Glue and Snowflake.
- What is the expected level of coding proficiency for this Platform Engineer role?
- While not expected to be a Senior Full-Stack Developer, the Platform Engineer should be 'literate' in PHP and JavaScript. This means being able to read stack traces, understand pull requests, and assist in troubleshooting application issues within a Laravel/Vue environment.
- What kind of experience is considered a bonus for the Platform Engineer position at Stream Companies?
- Bonus points for the Platform Engineer role include experience with Azure Cloud Environment, AWS Glue, Snowflake, or migrating legacy identity systems to modern solutions like AWS Cognito.
- How does the Platform Engineer role contribute to Stream Companies' marketing technology platform?
- The Platform Engineer ensures the stability, security, and performance of the marketing technology platform's infrastructure, playing a vital role in supporting Quality Control (QC) and CI/CD processes to guarantee reliable code deployment.
- What is the work environment like for a Platform Engineer at Stream Companies?
- Stream Companies fosters an entrepreneurial, collaborative, and curious mindset. The Platform Engineer role offers autonomy and a direct impact on infrastructure strategy, working closely with the development team in a full-service advertising agency setting.