Platform Engineer - Client Solutions
Tensure
- Location
- Onsite (Remote (United States))
- Compensation
- $172k - $186k/yr
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior Level
About the Role
Tensure is a modern tech consultancy focused on helping clients build and scale cloud platforms. This role involves both hands-on platform engineering for clients and partnering with the sales team to design technical solutions.
Skills
Benefits
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Prescription Benefits
- Short-term Disability
- Long-term Disability
- AD&D Insurance
- Life Insurance
- 401k Contribution
- Paid Time Off
- Company Holidays
Perks
- Transparent pay
Full job details
Where You'll Come In
As a Platform Engineer - Client Solutions you'll split your time between helping our clients build modern cloud platforms and partnering with our Sales team to design technical solutions for prospective customers.
Approximately 50% of your time will be billable, working directly with clients on platform engineering engagements. The remaining time will focus on supporting go-to-market efforts by leading technical discovery, solution design, scoping projects, and helping customers understand how Tensure can solve their infrastructure challenges.
You'll serve as the technical expert during the sales process while remaining hands-on enough to stay current with modern cloud technologies and delivery best practices.
Core Responsibilities
Client Delivery (50%)
- Design and implement cloud infrastructure and platform engineering solutions
- Build Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or similar tools
- Design Kubernetes-based platforms
- Build and improve CI/CD pipelines
- Improve developer experience through modern platform engineering practices
- Work directly with client engineering teams to deliver successful engagements
Go-To-Market & Sales (50%)
- Partner with Sales during technical discovery calls
- Lead architecture and solution design discussions
- Translate customer challenges into practical technical solutions
- Develop Statements of Work and project estimates
- Present technical solutions to engineering leaders and executive stakeholders
- Serve as the technical expert throughout the sales cycle
Requirements
- 8-10+ years building cloud infrastructure and platform engineering solutions
- Strong experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Deep Kubernetes experience
- Terraform (or equivalent Infrastructure as Code)
- CI/CD pipelines
- Containers and orchestration
- Observability and monitoring platforms
- Experience working in consulting or customer-facing technical roles
- Comfortable presenting technical concepts to both engineers and executives
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
Some of our Perks
- Medical, dental, vision & prescription benefits starting day 1!
- Company paid short-term/long-term disability, AD&D and life insurance
- We contribute 3% of your base salary to a 401k (regardless of your contribution)
- 5 weeks Paid Time Off + 11 Company Holiday
- A transparent pay structure with a clear path to promotion
Understanding the interview journey
- An initial screening interview
- A Technical Assessment
- A technical interview (pairing - code challenge, case studies and/or hypothetical questions about how you would solve certain challenges)
- A culture and values interview
- Offer Letter sent via email (or a decline with feedback)
Salary: $172,500 - $186,000