Senior AWS Platform Engineer
Apex Systems · Plano, TX · Yesterday
EngineeringContract
About the role
The Senior AWS Platform Engineer will support cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, AI initiatives, and secure enterprise applications within AWS.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and support AWS cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes (EKS) environments.
- Manage EKS upgrades, lifecycle management, vulnerability remediation, and platform reliability.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Administer AWS services including EC2, Lambda, Fargate, S3, RDS, Route 53, and Direct Connect.
- Support PostgreSQL and Aurora databases, including performance tuning, backups, recovery, and high availability.
- Implement and maintain cloud security controls using IAM, WAF, KMS, Secrets Manager, and certificate management.
- Design and optimize AI prompts leveraging prompt engineering techniques, AWS Bedrock, and AI integrations with APIs and databases.
- Maintain cloud environments and troubleshoot infrastructure, security, and performance issues.
Requirements
- 5+ years of AWS cloud infrastructure experience.
- Strong expertise with Amazon EKS/Kubernetes.
- Experience with: EC2, Lambda, Fargate, S3, EBS, VPC, Route 53, Direct Connect, Terraform, CloudWatch, CloudTrail.
- 3+ years of AWS lifecycle management, vulnerability remediation, and cloud security.
- 3-5 years of PostgreSQL, Aurora, and AWS RDS experience.
- Strong SQL, database design, and performance tuning skills.
- Experience with IAM, certificate management, secrets management, and vulnerability management.
- 2+ years of prompt engineering experience, including few-shot/zero-shot prompting and AI integrations.
- Experience with AWS Bedrock or other generative AI platforms preferred.