AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

About the role

This role focuses on designing, building, and managing cloud platform environments across multiple providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP. The candidate will also be responsible for developing and maintaining cloud platform services and landing zones, implementing IaC, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, collaborating with various teams, monitoring and optimizing platform performance, enforcing security controls, supporting cloud migrations, and documenting platform architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available cloud platform environments across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
• Develop and maintain cloud platform services and landing zones, including networking, identity, compute, and storage components.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Bicep to automate infrastructure provisioning.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and platform automation frameworks to enable consistent and repeatable deployments.
• Collaborate with application, DevOps, and security teams to onboard workloads and define platform standards, guardrails, and best practices.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize platform performance, cost, and reliability using observability tools (logs, metrics, tracing).
• Implement and enforce security and compliance controls aligned to federal standards (e.g., NIST, FedRAMP).
• Support cloud migrations and modernization efforts, including rehost, re-platform, and re-architect initiatives.
• Develop reusable platform modules, templates, and self-service capabilities for engineering teams.
• Document platform architecture, configurations, and operational procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Minimum of four (4) years of IT experience, with at least 1+ years in cloud platform engineering or DevOps environments.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, etc.).
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, etc.).
• Knowledge of cloud networking fundamentals (VPC/VNet, subnets, routing, security groups).
• Experience with container platforms such as Kubernetes and Docker.
• Working knowledge of scripting/programming (Python, Bash, PowerShell).

Qualifications

• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

• Cloud certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Engineer/DevOps, GCP Professional).
• Experience designing enterprise landing zones and platform architectures.
• Knowledge of observability and SRE practices (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.).
• Experience implementing Zero Trust security models and governance controls.
• Familiarity with federal environments and compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, NIST 800-53).
• Experience with hybrid cloud and multi-cloud deployments.

Benefits

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Group Term Life and Travel Assistance
• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
• Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities
• Employee Referral Program
• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
• Care.com annual membership
• Employee Assistance Program
• Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)

Pay

Competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package.

Schedule

Flexible schedule to accommodate the needs of the role and the team.