Infrastructure Engineer L2 (contract)

Role Summary

We are seeking a hands-on Backstage Platform Engineer to lead the implementation, configuration, and enablement of an enterprise Backstage developer portal. This individual will own the technical delivery from discovery through production rollout, leveraging Backstage, AWS, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps practices to improve developer experience, service visibility, and platform governance across engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end implementation and evolution of the Backstage platform.
• Design and configure Backstage software catalogs, templates, TechDocs, search capabilities, permissions, and platform integrations.
• Develop and maintain Backstage backend modules and frontend customizations using TypeScript, Node.js, and React.
• Configure and support Backstage plugins while prioritizing upstream open-source capabilities over custom development.
• Deploy and manage Backstage workloads in AWS and Kubernetes environments using Infrastructure as Code.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and platform deployment processes.
• Implement secure authentication and authorization solutions using OIDC, SAML, RBAC, and enterprise identity providers.
• Integrate observability and operational tooling including Datadog, PagerDuty, Jira, and Kubernetes.
• Partner with CloudOps, SRE, Security, Identity Management, and Engineering teams to ensure platform adoption and operational readiness.
• Create architecture documentation, design records, runbooks, onboarding materials, and knowledge transfer sessions.
• Ensure all infrastructure and configuration are delivered as code while adhering to security and governance standards.
• Support platform upgrades, maintenance activities, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps experience.
• Hands-on delivery of at least one production Backstage implementation.
• Strong experience configuring Backstage software catalogs, scaffolder templates, TechDocs, search, permissions, and platform upgrades.
• Experience developing applications and services using TypeScript, Node.js, and React.
• Strong AWS experience including EKS, IAM, IRSA, RDS PostgreSQL, S3, networking, and multi-account environments.
• Hands-on Kubernetes administration and deployment experience.
• Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code methodologies.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar tooling.
• Familiarity with GitHub Apps, containerization technologies, and release automation.

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $39.86/hour - $62.29/hour. Our offered benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis. Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.