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Lead AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

Reston, VA, US • Posted 13 hours ago • Updated 13 hours ago

Contract Corp To Corp

Contract W2

12 Months

50% Travel Required

On-site

$85 - $87/hr

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Skills

AWS
Cloud
EKS
Site Reliability
SRE
Infrastructure

Summary

Job Title: Lead AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

Location: Reston, VA (Hybrid onsite)

Duration: Long-term contract

F2F (Inperson interview) is a must

Seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Platform Engineer to design, implement, and manage scalable, secure cloud solutions on AWS. The role involves collaborating with engineering teams, supporting cloud infrastructure, and driving automation, reliability, and cloud transformation initiatives.

Required Experience:
10+ years in IT, including 5+ years in AWS engineering/administration
Experience in SRE practices and cloud transformation
Hands-on with AWS services (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, EKS, Lambda, etc.)
EKS is a must have (atleast 2-3 years with EKS)
Experience with EC2, EKS, Operations side, RedShift, Platform Engineering, Sagemaker, Bedrock
Experience with Kubernetes, DevOps tools (Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform), and CI/CD
Strong knowledge of cloud-native architecture, Linux, and scripting

Responsibilities:
Design, deploy, and maintain AWS cloud platforms
Drive automation, scalability, and system reliability
Support full service lifecycle (design to operations)
Lead cloud migration and modernization (microservices, containers)
Monitor performance, troubleshoot issues, and optimize systems
Collaborate with teams, guide best practices, and mentor peers

Skills:
Programming: Python, Java, Go, etc.
IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK
Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS/ECS)
Monitoring & DevOps tools: New Relic, Datadog, Jenkins, Git, etc.

Licenses/Certifications
AWS Cloud certifications, minimum of One is required.

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Position Id: 30080-13826-1784735629
Posted 13 hours ago

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