Platform Engineer (AWS) - 144172
Sunnyvale, CA, US • Posted 1 day ago • Updated 3 hours agoFull Time
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Skills
- IaaS
- ProVision
- SAN
- Apache Kafka
- Amazon Kinesis
- Amazon SQS
- Redis
- High Availability
- Scalability
- Grafana
- Continuous Integration
- Continuous Delivery
- Release Management
- Root Cause Analysis
- Continuous Improvement
- Optimization
- Operational Excellence
- Cloud Computing
- FOCUS
- Amazon EC2
- Amazon S3
- Virtual Private Cloud
- Amazon RDS
- Remote Desktop Services
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Amazon CloudFront
- Management
- Streaming
- Messaging
- Caching
- Database
- Terraform
- Linux
- Computer Networking
- Performance Tuning
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Digital Asset Management
- Media
- Workflow
- Kubernetes
- Orchestration
- Amazon Web Services
- DevOps
Summary
Job Title: DevOps Engineer (AWS-Focused)
Duration: 12+ Months contract with extension
Location: Sunnyvale, CA (Onsite on every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday)
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps Engineer with deep AWS expertise to design, provision, secure, and operate cloud infrastructure supporting large-scale Digital Asset Management (DAM) platforms. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience building resilient, observable, and high-performance systems, and will collaborate closely with internal engineering teams as well as external platform partners, including Apple teams.
Experience with DAM platforms is a strong plus but not mandatory.
Key Responsibilities
Required Qualifications
Nice to Have
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Duration: 12+ Months contract with extension
Location: Sunnyvale, CA (Onsite on every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday)
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps Engineer with deep AWS expertise to design, provision, secure, and operate cloud infrastructure supporting large-scale Digital Asset Management (DAM) platforms. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience building resilient, observable, and high-performance systems, and will collaborate closely with internal engineering teams as well as external platform partners, including Apple teams.
Experience with DAM platforms is a strong plus but not mandatory.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, provision, and secure AWS infrastructure supporting DAM workloads using infrastructure-as-code best practices.
- Build and manage scalable cloud services across AWS, including compute, storage, networking, IAM, and security services.
- Operate and optimize streaming, messaging, caching, search, and database platforms (e.g., Kafka/Kinesis, SQS/SNS, Redis/Elastic Cache, OpenSearch, RDS/DynamoDB).
- Ensure high availability, scalability, reliability, and fault tolerance of production systems.
- Implement robust monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability using CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar tools.
- Support CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and release management across environments
- Lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and performance optimization for production issues.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with application engineers, third-party platform providers, and Apple engineering teams to deliver integrated solutions.
- Drive continuous improvement in security posture, cost optimization, and operational excellence.
Required Qualifications
- Strong hands-on experience as a DevOps or Cloud Engineer, with heavy focus on AWS.
- Deep knowledge of AWS services including EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFront, and CloudWatch.
- Experience managing distributed systems involving streaming, messaging, caching, search, and databases.
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK).
- Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking, and security best practices.
- Experience supporting production systems with high scale and reliability requirements.
- Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work across teams and organizations.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Digital Asset Management (DAM) platforms or media-heavy workflows.
- Kubernetes (EKS) and container orchestration expertise.
- Experience working with large enterprise platforms or partner-driven ecosystems.
- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or Security Specialty).
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- Dice Id: ptrtx
- Position Id: 173788
- Posted 1 day ago
Company Info
Pinnacle Group is a leading provider of information technology and workforce solutions. Pinnacle Group includes Pinnacle Technical Resources, Inc., its flagship information technology staffing and consulting services provider; Pinnacle MSP, a managed services provider; Pinnacle Payrolling, a payrolling and independent contractor compliance provider; Pinnacle Canada, which provides staffing, MSP and payrolling services in Canada.
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