The Aspen Group
Healthcare
SeniorPlatformEngineer
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“Senior Platform Engineer at The Aspen Group. Skills: Platform Engineering, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, AI Operationalization. Set technical direction for platform. Drive architecture decisions”
What You'll Achieve.
Ship safely and quickly; Make AI workloads production-grade
Industry & Context.
Evaluate trade-offs; Root cause analysis
On call
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7+ years cloud engineering, 3+ years GCP, Expert-level Terraform skills, Deep production Kubernetes experience, Solid grasp of serverless patterns, Working knowledge of IAM, CI/CD experience, Proficient in Python, Proficient in Go, Proficient in shell, Understanding of AI operationalization
Nice to Have
Hands-on Vertex AI experience, Hands-on Agent Engine experience, Experience operating multi-cloud, Experience with FinOps, Experience building internal developer platforms, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert, CKA / CKAD / CKS, HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
What You'll Do.
Set technical direction for platform
Drive architecture decisions
Design platform services on GCP
Build platform services on GCP
Operate platform services on GCP
Cover networking on GCP
Cover observability on GCP
Cover CI/CD integrations on GCP
Author Terraform modules
Maintain Terraform modules
Manage state strategy
Import legacy infrastructure
Refactor legacy infrastructure
Clean up legacy infrastructure
Manage workload identity
Manage GKE networking
Manage GKE autoscaling
Manage GKE cost controls
Stand up serverless patterns
Stand up PaaS patterns
Operationalize agents
Operationalize models
Deploy Vertex AI Agent Engine
Deploy model endpoints
Implement eval pipelines
Implement observability pipelines
Manage prompt secrets
Implement secure-by-default CI/CD
Use Workload Identity Federation
Contribute to Azure work
Contribute to AWS work
Improve developer experience
Mentor other engineers
Provide design feedback
Lead incident response
Lead post-incident reviews
Mature on-call operations
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Application teams; AI / Software Engineers; Internal developers; Cross-team decisions
Communication Scope
Written communication; Verbal communication; Design docs; Leading reviews; Influencing engineers
Process & Methodology
Roadmap planning
Full Job Description
The Aspen Group (TAG) is one of the largest and most trusted retail healthcare business support organizations in the U.S. and has supported over 20,000 healthcare professionals and team members with close to 1,500 health and wellness offices across 48 states in four distinct categories: dental care, urgent care, medical aesthetics, and animal health. Working in partnership with independent practice owners and clinicians, the team is united by a single purpose: to prove that healthcare can be better and smarter for everyone. TAG provides a comprehensive suite of centralized business support services power the impact of five consumer-facing businesses: Aspen Dental, ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers, WellNow Urgent Care, Chapter Aesthetic Studio, and Lovet Pet Health Care. Each brand has access to a deep community of experts, tools and resources to grow their practices, and an unwavering commitment to delivering high-quality consumer healthcare experiences at scale. We're hiring a Sr. Platform Engineer to help lead the design, build, and operation of the cloud foundation that the rest of our engineering organization builds on. You'll work primarily in GCP, setting direction on landing zones, hardening IAM, automating infrastructure with Terraform, running workloads on GKE and Cloud Run, and standing up the platform capabilities our application teams need to ship safely and quickly. You'll also be a key technical leader for operationalizing AI workloads (Vertex AI Agent Engine, model endpoints, agentic services) and making them production-grade. This is a senior, hands-on engineering role on a small, high-trust team. You'll write code, own systems end-to-end, set technical direction for the platform, mentor other engineers, and help shape how internal developers experience the cloud. **Responsibilities:** * Set technical direction for the platform: drive architecture decisions, write ADRs, evaluate trade-offs, and bring the team along. * Design, build, and operate p
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