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Senior AWS Platform Engineer

Apex Systems · Plano, TX · Yesterday
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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.

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