Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Hybrid in Irvine, CA, US • Posted 22 hours ago • Updated 22 hours ago
Contract Independent
Contract W2
12 Months
No Travel Required
Hybrid
$50 - $60/hr
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Skills

  • Amazon RDS
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Capacity Management
  • Cloud Security
  • Docker
  • Computer Networking
  • Remote Desktop Services
  • Jenkins
  • Java
  • Incident Management
  • Kubernetes
  • Continuous Integration
  • Amazon S3
  • Amazon EC2
  • Cloud Computing
  • Continuous Improvement
  • IaaS
  • GitHub
  • Documentation
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Apache Kafka
  • Management
  • OIDC
  • Orchestration
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • TLS
  • Virtual Private Cloud

Summary

Job Title: Senior Cloud Platform Engineer
Duration: Long term Contract
Location: Irvine, CA (Hybrid)

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
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  • Dice Id: 10238807
  • Position Id: 9008444
  • Posted 22 hours ago
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