AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Overview

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure. Focus on platform enablement, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, event-driven streaming, and operational excellence across multi-account AWS environments empowering engineering teams through self-service tooling and reliable, well-governed cloud foundations.

Key Responsibilities

Design and operate scalable, highly available, multi-account cloud infrastructure (AWS)

Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code modules and standards using Terraform

Develop reusable platform patterns, landing zones, and golden paths for engineering teams

Optimize and operate CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Harness)

Enable developer self-service and reduce manual intervention through automation

Manage Kubernetes platforms (EKS) networking, scaling, upgrades, and workload onboarding

Operate and support Kafka-based event streaming platforms topics, schemas, connectors, and cluster reliability

Build and integrate REST APIs and self-service tooling to streamline platform workflows

Implement cloud security and governance (IAM, OAuth/OIDC, OKTA, SSL/TLS, secrets management)

Drive cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, and FinOps practices

Implement observability metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and SLOs

Lead incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis across platform and runtime systems

Partner with application teams to troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment, and runtime issues

Drive continuous improvement using operational insights and user feedback

Enhance documentation, runbooks, and platform usability

Technical Skills

Cloud: AWS (EKS, EC2, VPC/Networking, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda)

IaC: Terraform (modules, state management, policy-as-code)

CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Harness

APIs & Integration: REST APIs (design, development, integration), Async APIs

Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS)

Event Streaming: Kafka, Confluent (topics, schemas, Kafka Connect, cluster linking)

Monitoring/Observability: Datadog, CloudWatch

Security: OAuth, OIDC, OKTA, SSL/TLS, IAM, secrets management

Programming/Scripting: Java/Python

Key Competencies

Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving across distributed systems

Ability to translate operational issues into durable platform improvements

Systems-thinking approach to reliability, security, and cost

Effective collaboration and technical mentorship across engineering teams

Must Have & Desired Skills: Must Have:
* Cloud: AWS (EKS, EC2, VPC/Networking, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda)
* IaC: Terraform (modules, state management, policy-as-code)
* CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Harness
* APIs & Integration: REST APIs (design, development, integration), Async APIs
* Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS)
* Security: OAuth, OIDC, OKTA, SSL/TLS, IAM, secrets management

Desired:
* Event Streaming: Kafka, Confluent (topics, schemas, Kafka Connect, cluster linking)
* Monitoring/Observability: Datadog, CloudWatch
* Programming/Scripting: Java/Python