Cloud Platform Engineer

The Cloud Platform Engineer will design, build, secure, and operate our AWS cloud platform supporting multiple business-critical applications and enterprise initiatives. This role will be responsible for implementing and operating modern cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation, observability, and cloud security while working closely with the Technical Platform Manager to execute the organization's cloud modernization strategy. Position will partner with Engineering teams, Security,

and implementation partners to establish a secure, scalable, and highly available cloud platform that enables reliable application delivery and future business growth.

• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available AWS cloud infrastructure including VPC, EC2, EKS, ALB, Route 53, CloudFront, RDS, IAM, S3, KMS, and Secrets Manager following AWS Well-Architected best practices.

• Build, administer, and optimize Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) environments including cluster management, networking, ingress controllers, autoscaling, namespaces, RBAC, storage, and workload optimization.

• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform to create reusable infrastructure modules and standardized environment provisioning across Development, QA, UAT, and Production.

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions (or equivalent), enabling automated testing, deployment, release approvals, rollback capabilities, and deployment consistency.

• Implement cloud security best practices including IAM, least privilege access, Secrets Manager, KMS, WAF, GuardDuty, Security Hub, vulnerability remediation, and security hardening in collaboration with Security teams.

• Implement centralized monitoring, logging, observability, and alerting using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and related technologies to improve platform reliability and operational visibility.

• Support production operations by troubleshooting infrastructure and application platform issues, performing root cause analysis, implementing disaster recovery strategies, and improving platform resilience and availability.

• Collaborate with application development teams and implementation partners to support containerization, cloud-native application deployment, environment management, and platform modernization initiatives.

• Create and maintain infrastructure documentation, operational runbooks, platform standards, disaster recovery procedures, and technical documentation.

• Participate in cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, platform performance tuning, architecture reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline (or equivalent practical experience).
• 5+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and supporting AWS cloud infrastructure.
• 3+ years of hands-on production experience with Kubernetes (Amazon EKS preferred).
• Strong experience with Docker and containerization technologies.
• Strong experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar technologies.
• Strong understanding of AWS networking, VPC architecture, load balancing, DNS, SSL/TLS, IAM, and cloud security best practices.
• Experience implementing cloud security services including IAM, Secrets Manager, KMS, GuardDuty, Security Hub, WAF, and vulnerability remediation.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability solutions using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or similar platforms.
• Experience supporting highly available production environments and implementing disaster recovery solutions.
• Experience with scripting using Bash, Python, or PowerShell.
• Strong Linux administration skills.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.