Senior Cloud Platform Engineer
Obra Capital · Indiana, United States · 1 wk ago
EngineeringFull-time
General Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team to deliver high-quality cloud solutions
- Recognizes, identifies, triages and resolves platform issues; escalates to the appropriate resource where required.
- Performs system and component level configuration, testing, and documentation for platform projects.
- Aids in development of project efforts providing estimates for development and documentation.
- Identifies and recommends methods for improved automation, scalability, better monitoring, and process transparency across all stakeholders.
- Ensures existing standards and methodologies are in place and works together with the development team to identify and implement enhanced standards and methodologies for development practices.
- Provides feedback to the platform team regarding bug fixes, enhancement requests and other issues.
- Recommend strategies, procedures, and new technologies for implementation
Specific Responsibilities
- Infrastructure as Code & Automation
- Develop and maintain reusable Terraform or AWS CDK modules for common infrastructure patterns
- Automate provisioning of AWS resources including: Networking components, Compute environments (EKS/ECS/EC2/Lambda), IAM roles and policies, Storage and foundational services
- Ensure all infrastructure is provisioned through code and aligned with platform standards
- AWS Platform Enablement
- Help implement and enhance the AWS landing zone including account baselines and guardrails
- Support automation for: Account setup and configuration, Logging and monitoring integration, Environment bootstrapping for application teams
- Partner with Security to embed guardrails and policies into automation
- Enable application teams to deploy infrastructure safely and consistently
- Improve developer experience through self-service patterns and documentation
- Platform Standards & Governance
- Implement standards for tagging, cost allocation, and resource naming
- Embed security and compliance controls into infrastructure automation
- Ensure environments are built according to approved architecture patterns
- Collaboration with Managed Service Provider (MSP) and Partners
- Work with consulting partners to transition platform automation into internal ownership
- Ensure infrastructure modules and pipelines are documented and maintainable
- Cookordination with the MSP to align automation with operational support models
- Observability & Reliability Foundations
- Help automate integration with logging, monitoring, and alerting platforms
- Support platform-level reliability patterns such as multi-AZ deployments
- Bachelor’s degree in information management, computer sciences or technically related area
- 4+ years of experience in cloud engineering or platform engineering roles
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS
- Experience building infrastructure using Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation
- Experience designing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployments
- Understanding of AWS networking, IAM, and core cloud architecture patterns
- Experience working in environments with MSPs or external partners
- Strong understanding of data security, access control, and governance in regulated environments
- Experience working with system integrators or external partners during large platform initiatives
- Experience in insurance, annuities, or financial services
- Experience in regulated industries such as insurance or financial services
- Experience implementing AWS landing zones or multi-account environments
- Familiarity with container platforms (EKS, ECS) and serverless architectures
- Understanding of cloud security best practices and policy-as-code
- AWS certifications (Associate or Professional level) a plus