Summary
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Work remotely as a platform engineer supporting and improving cloud infrastructure, deployment workflows, observability, automation, and operational practices for data-intensive systems. You will work with AWS services, GitLab CI/CD, infrastructure automation, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and developer enablement. The role is designed for someone looking to grow across cloud, reliability, CI/CD, and data platform operations.
Highlights
Remote platform engineering opportunity at an early-to-mid career level, with broad exposure to AWS, CI/CD, reliability, observability, automation, and data platform operations. The role provides room to grow across multiple areas of cloud and platform engineering while contributing to climate-focused work.
Description
Platform Engineer (Early to Mid-level)- Geospatial Data Systems | Carbon Mapper | Remote
Carbon Mapper is looking for a Platform Engineer to support, operate, and improve the cloud infrastructure, deployment workflows, observability systems, automation, and operational practices that power Carbon Mapper’s Data Platform.
The Platform Engineer will work closely with our Engineering and Science teams to support AWS cloud services, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, monitoring and alerting, incident response, operational documentation, and developer enablement.
Carbon Mapper’s current platform uses AWS services including Lambda, Step Functions, ECS, AWS Batch, CloudWatch, S3, IAM, and related networking, along with GitLab, New Relic, and PagerDuty.
This role is well suited for someone who wants to grow across platform engineering, AWS, CI/CD, reliability, and data platform operations- and who is excited to apply that work toward climate action.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Operations
Support AWS infrastructure for Carbon Mapper’s application, data, and platform systems, including Lambda, Step Functions, ECS, AWS Batch, CloudWatch, S3, IAM, and networking Deploy, configure, and troubleshoot cloud resources Identify and implement infrastructure improvements to increase consistency, reliability, security, and cost efficiency across environments
CI/CD, Deployment, and Automation
Maintain, improve, and troubleshoot GitLab CI/CD pipelines for application, data, and infrastructure workflows, including build, test, deployment, and rollback automation Help standardize deployment workflows across services and environments by creating templates and examples Automate repetitive manual tasks and toil
Observability, Reliability, and Incident Support
Improve logging, metrics, and dashboards for services, jobs, and data pipelines Participate in incident response and post-incident follow-up; help improve alerts, runbooks, recovery procedures, and reprocessing workflows Triage and troubleshoot application, data pipeline, infrastructure, deployment, and alerting issues, and turn recurring problems into documentation, automation, or platform improvements
Security, Access, and Cost Awareness
Help implement practical guardrails for secure and efficient cloud operations Identify underused, misconfigured, or inconsistent resources, and work with senior engineers to strengthen security, access, and cost practices
Documentation and Developer Enablement
Write and maintain deployment guides, runbooks, troubleshooting procedures, operational references, and reusable examples for common engineering workflows Partner with software engineers and scientists on effective use of platform tools
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