Senior Platform Engineer

Veeva Systems

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$115,000–$175,000 / yr
Posted
42 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $182k
This role $145k
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This role pays less than 86% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$213,400 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $145k versus about $182k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Veeva Systems

Veeva Systems is a cloud software company serving the global life sciences industry, providing CRM, clinical, regulatory, quality, and data applications used by pharmaceutical and biotech companies.

Veeva Systems currently has 93 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $80,000–$165,000 across 82 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Platform Engineer

The Senior Platform Engineer joins the NitroAI team as the dedicated owner of the business consulting teams' analytics infrastructure. This role involves managing an AWS and Kubernetes platform where the engineer is responsible for ensuring reliability, cost-efficiency, and performance while maintaining security baselines and access controls. Day-to-day responsibilities include leading GitOps deployments via ArgoCD, managing end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using GitLab with Bash scripting, and establishing platform observability through monitoring and alerting. The ideal candidate possesses expertise in Terraform for infrastructure as code, along with proficiency in AWS services like Lambda, ECR, and VPC networking. The role focuses on solving technical challenges related to analytics infrastructure within a data engineering context, specifically managing production workloads across environments while ensuring compliance-oriented design for the organization's internal consulting platforms.

What does a Platform Engineer earn?

Median $150000 from 32 postings across 22 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Own and operate the AWS and Kubernetes platform focusing on reliability, cost, and performance.
  • Lead GitOps deployments to manage policy synchronization, deployment ordering, and configuration management.
  • Design and maintain end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, including shell and Docker runner management.
  • Manage incident response by diagnosing failures, leading recovery efforts, and documenting post-mortems.
  • Establish platform observability through monitoring, alerting, and log visibility for analytics business consulting.
  • Maintain security baselines, access controls, and secrets management across the infrastructure.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 5+ years of hands-on platform engineering experience focused on automation, tooling, and distributed systems.
  • Must have experience with AWS and Kubernetes (specifically EKS) for production workload management.
  • Requires expert-level GitLab CI/CD skills including shell and Docker runner management.
  • Requires strong Bash scripting skills for deployment orchestration.
  • Must have production experience using ArgoCD and GitOps to manage workloads across environments.
  • Proficiency with Terraform as the primary Infrastructure as Code tool is required.
  • Must possess AWS fluency in services including Lambda, ALB, WAF, CloudFront, Cognito, Secrets Manager, Route53, KMS, ECR, and VPC networking.
  • Requires working knowledge of security baselines and compliance-oriented infrastructure design.

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