AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

GLINT TECH SOLUTIONS LLC
Reston, United States of America
10 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Reston, United States of America

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Bash
Continuous Integration
Linux
DevOps
Fault Tolerance
Identity and Access Management
Subnetting
Python
Linux System Administration
Ansible
Toolchain
DevOps Tools - Open-source
Istio
Boto3
AWS Lambda
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
GIT
Cloudformation
Containerization
Kubernetes
Information Technology
Data Analytics
Bitbucket
Cloudwatch
Terraform
Virtual Private Clouds
Jenkins
Artifactory
Microservices

Job description

  • Communicate architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies, balancing short-term trade-offs against long-term commitments and costs
  • Drive end-to-end lifecycle of services from inception and design through deployment and operations
  • Establish cloud-native automation capabilities to improve developer experience
  • Support system design consulting, platform/framework development, capacity planning, and launch reviews
  • Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and engage directly with internal customers
  • Lead migration of legacy applications to microservices architecture hosted on AWS
  • Leverage cloud-native components including containers, immutable infrastructure, microservices, and service mesh to build highly available and fault-tolerant systems
  • Automate end-to-end patching, upgrades, and maintenance of the AWS cloud ecosystem
  • Monitor and manage stability, availability, and performance across enterprise systems (systems, network, storage, security)
  • Make data-driven recommendations to improve software delivery efficiency
  • Mentor peers and socialize engineering solutions across teams

Requirements

Do you have experience in Virtual Private Clouds?, * Minimum 10 years of overall IT experience, with at least 5 years in AWS Cloud

  • SME-level expertise in platform engineering and administration, with hands-on EKS-based provisioning via automation
  • Minimum one active AWS certification required
  • Strong hands-on knowledge of AWS services: VPC, Networking, Direct Connect, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups, EC2, S3, IAM, ELBs, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EKS
  • Hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible playbooks, and Python (Boto3/Lambda functions)
  • Experience with AWS CloudFormation and CDK
  • Proficiency in Linux Bash scripting and Linux system administration
  • 3+ years with Kubernetes/containerization and DevOps toolchain (Jenkins, Ansible, Artifactory, Bitbucket, etc.)
  • Solid CI/CD pipeline experience and IaC/automated provisioning practices
  • Experience with SRE principles and transformation initiatives
  • Strong leadership experience driving cloud transformation programs
  • Basic AI exposure or experience required

Nice-to-Have Skills

  • Hands-on production experience with Amazon EKS
  • Familiarity with Git/repo, Crucible, and other DevOps tooling
  • Experience with enterprise cloud migration and modernization efforts

About the company

Glint Tech Solutions is a women-owned global staffing and IT recruiting firm connecting top technical talent with leading enterprise clients across the United States., Our client, a leading enterprise healthcare organization, is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer to drive cloud-native transformation, platform engineering, and automation initiatives within a large-scale AWS environment. This is a hands-on SME-level role requiring deep expertise in EKS-based provisioning, infrastructure as code, and SRE principles.

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