Lead Platform Engineer || Kubernetes, AWS

Overview

On Site
Depends on Experience
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 24 Month(s)
50% Travel
Able to Provide Sponsorship

Skills

Agile
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon EC2
Amazon RDS
Amazon Route 53
Amazon S3
Amazon SQS
Amazon Web Services
Cloud Computing
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Integration
DevOps
GitHub
GitLab
IT Management
IaaS
Kubernetes
Management
Mentorship
Network Security
PaaS
RBAC
Regulatory Compliance
Remote Desktop Services
Terraform
Virtual Private Cloud
Workflow

Job Details

We are seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to help design, operate, and enhance a secure, reliable, and highly available cloud and developer platform. This role focuses on building automated, scalable platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solutions that support development teams in a fast-paced, agile environment.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD automation, and security. You will work closely with Security, Compliance, and Engineering teams to implement secure infrastructure features, automation, and best practices while providing technical leadership and mentorship.

Key Responsibilities:

Design, build, and operate secure and highly available cloud and platform infrastructure

Translate business and application requirements into automated platform solutions

Implement infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and developer workflow automation

Lead Kubernetes platform deployments using GitOps practices

Collaborate with Security and Compliance teams to enforce security standards

Provide technical leadership and mentor junior engineers

Troubleshoot platform application deployments and configurations

Work cross-functionally in an agile, fast-paced environment

Required Skills & Experience (Top Must-Haves):

7+ years of DevOps experience supporting containerized and Kubernetes production systems

4+ years of hands-on experience with AWS, CI/CD pipelines, and developer workflow automation

Tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, AWS CodeStar

Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation

3+ years of experience with:

Kubernetes deployment and GitOps tooling (Helm, Flux, Argo CD)

Cloud and network security architecture (IAM, least privilege, secrets management, RBAC, boundary protection)

Additional Experience:

AWS services: EC2, S3, SQS, SNS, RDS, DynamoDB, KMS, SSM, ELB, VPC, Route 53

AWS Organizations, Control Tower, or Landing Zone Accelerator

Experience leading and mentoring junior Software or DevOps Engineers

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