AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

Duration: Long-term Contract

Location: LA, CA (Hybrid)

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