Platform Engineer

Introduction:

The Platform Engineer will play a crucial role in designing, building, and managing scalable platform infrastructure on AWS. They will be responsible for supporting Amazon EKS clusters, optimizing AWS services, configuring Kubernetes components, and implementing secure application configurations. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

Responsibilities:

• Designing, building, and operating scalable platform infrastructure on AWS.
• Managing and supporting Amazon EKS clusters across production and non-production environments.
• Administering and optimizing AWS services such as Dynamo DB, Amazon RDS, Cloud Watch, Route 53, AWS Secrets Manager, and AWS Certificate Manager.
• Configuring Kubernetes components, including ingress controllers, namespaces, networking, and workload deployments.
• Implementing and maintaining ingress patterns using Kubernetes Ingress Controller and AWS ALB.
• Managing DNS, hosted zones, and routing traffic with Route 53.
• Handling secrets, credentials, and secure application configuration using AWS Secrets Manager.
• Provisioning, renewing, and managing TLS/SSL certificates via AWS Certificate Manager for secure application and ingress communication.
• Developing, maintaining, and improving Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Terraform Enterprise.
• Supporting AWS networking components, including VPCs, subnets, route tables, internet gateways, NAT gateways, and security groups.
• Configuring and troubleshooting network connectivity between applications, clusters, databases, and external endpoints.
• Reviewing and maintaining network access controls, security group rules, and routing paths for secure and reliable communication.
• Troubleshooting platform, infrastructure, DNS, certificate, secret management, load balancing, and network-related issues.
• Monitoring platform health, creating dashboards, defining alerts, and improving observability using Cloud Watch.
• Partnering with development and security teams to enhance CI/CD, platform reliability, and compliance.
• Supporting incident response, root cause analysis, and operational readiness activities.
• Driving automation for platform operations, environment creation, upgrades, patching, and recovery procedures.
• Leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools for scripting, automation, troubleshooting, and operational efficiency.
• Evaluating opportunities for AI-powered tooling to improve platform support workflows and incident response.
• Maintaining technical documentation, architecture diagrams, run books, and operational standards.

Requirements:

Required Skills: Amazon EKS, Dynamo DB, Route 53, AWS Secrets Manager

Preferred Skills: Experience with Terraform, core cloud networking, and modern AI-enabled engineering tools