United Talent Agency · 1 day ago
Senior Platform Engineer – Cloud Infrastructure
Los Angeles, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$160K/yr - $180K/yr
7+ years expUnited Talent Agency (UTA) is a leading global entertainment company representing iconic artists and creators. They are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to drive the design, automation, and scalability of their cloud infrastructure, ensuring systems are resilient and secure while mentoring peers and shaping engineering best practices.
Digital EntertainmentDigital MediaGaming
Responsibilities
Lead the architecture and automation of cloud infrastructure in AWS using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code principles
Define and maintain platform modules that set security, compliance, and operational baselines for services
Drive the migration of existing Azure infrastructure and applications to AWS with minimal downtime and maximum resiliency
Design and manage secure, scalable infrastructure components including databases (RDS/Postgres), serverless (Lambdas), container platforms (ECS/EKS), authentication (IAM/SSO), and networking
Establish operational patterns for monitoring, logging, and incident response across distributed environments
Champion the use of self-service tooling and ChatOps, enabling teams to manage infrastructure and deployments through Slack-based workflows
Implement robust CI/CD pipelines and release practices that integrate with GitHub Actions, Terraform, and other automation tools
Maintain familiarity with leading cloud monitoring and observability tools—including Datadog, AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, and similar platforms—to ensure effective infrastructure health monitoring, alerting, and incident management across multi-cloud environments
Lead efforts in cost optimization, performance tuning, and scaling strategies across multiple environments
Architect, build, and maintain automation solutions for deploying applications and services using trunk-based GitHub repositories and modern CI/CD tooling
Own end-to-end deployment workflows, ensuring that feature branches are reliably deployed to isolated environments and production deployments occur automatically on merges to main
Develop, support, and improve ChatOps integrations, enabling developers to manage deployments, rollback, and monitor services directly from Slack or other chat platforms
Lead the design and implementation of "Make New App" vending machine style automations within Slack, enabling self-service provisioning of new applications with standardized infrastructure, security, monitoring, and deployment pipelines
Provide ongoing support for deployment pipelines, collaborating with application teams to resolve issues and enhance developer experience and deployment reliability
Ensure all automation solutions align with platform security, compliance, and operational standards, partnering closely with Operations and Security teams
Establish and enforce engineering standards for IaC, container management, security configurations, and operational practices
Mentor and coach engineers, sharing best practices in platform automation, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps
Lead technical discussions, design reviews, and knowledge-sharing sessions across teams
Partner closely with application teams, product, and security functions to ensure infrastructure aligns with organizational and business goals
Partner closely with Operations and Security teams to ensure compliance, resilience, and operational excellence across all environments
Evaluate emerging cloud and platform technologies, guiding adoption strategies to maintain modern, efficient, and secure infrastructure
Shape the long-term platform vision, balancing developer experience, system reliability, and organizational scalability
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience
7+ years in platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering, with at least 3+ years in a senior or technical leadership capacity
Proven expertise with AWS services (ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS/Postgres, API Gateway, S3, IAM)
Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, including building and maintaining reusable modules and operating in monorepo environments
Experience designing, operating, and migrating enterprise-grade platforms with a focus on reliability, scalability, and security
Practical knowledge of modern CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, Terraform Cloud, or similar)
Demonstrated success in creating or enhancing self-service developer platforms and ChatOps automations
Strong communication and collaboration skills with an ability to influence across technical and business teams
Ability to lead while staying technically hands-on when needed
Preferred
Familiarity with Azure and cloud-to-cloud migrations is a plus
Benefits
The unique and exciting opportunity to work at one of the leading global entertainment companies
Access to the tools, leadership, and resources you will need to create and drive a center of excellence
The opportunity to do the best work of your career
Work in an inclusive and diverse company culture
Competitive benefits and programs to support your well-being
Experience working in a collaborative environment with room to grow
Company
United Talent Agency
United Talent Agency is a talent and literary agency representing actors, writers, directors, producers, recording artists and more.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
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EQT
2022-07-18Secondary Market
2018-08-07Series Unknown
Leadership Team
David Kramer
Chief Executive Officer
Claudia Russo
Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications
Recent News
2025-12-03
The Hollywood Reporter
2025-11-19
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