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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Platform Engineer - **Company:** Uniquehire Consulting Llc - **Location:** Berkeley Heights, NJ, United States - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Access Network, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Databases, System Configuration, Continuous Integration, Disaster Recovery, Domain Name System (DNS), Amazon DynamoDB, IP Routing, Subnetting, Traceroute, Knowledge Management, CURL, Network Connections, Ping (Networking Utility), Software Tools, Telnet, Transport Layer Security, Load Balancing, Amazon Relational Database Service, Kubernetes, Route53, Cloudwatch, Terraform - **Published:** June 15, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/b76f24d9-4f3f-4a40-8ca9-9a2d8f6493e7 ## About the Role I think candidates should have hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, core cloud networking, and familiarity with modern AI-enabled engineering tools. These capabilities are critical to building and efficiently managing the platform. ## Description * Designing, building, and operating scalable platform infrastructure on AWS. * Managing and supporting Amazon EKS clusters across production and non-production environments. * Administering and optimizing AWS services such as Dynamo DB, Amazon RDS, Cloud Watch, Route 53, AWS Secrets Manager, and AWS Certificate Manager. * Configuring Kubernetes components, including ingress controllers, namespaces, networking, and workload deployments. * Implementing and maintaining ingress patterns using Kubernetes Ingress Controller and AWS ALB. * Managing DNS, hosted zones, and routing traffic with Route 53. * Handling secrets, credentials, and secure application configuration using AWS Secrets Manager. * Provisioning, renewing, and managing TLS/SSL certificates via AWS Certificate Manager for secure application and ingress communication. * Developing, maintaining, and improving Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Terraform Enterprise. * Supporting AWS networking components, including VPCs, subnets, route tables, internet gateways, NAT gateways, and security groups. * Configuring and troubleshooting network connectivity between applications, clusters, databases, and external endpoints using tools like ping, curl, telnet, traceroute, lookup, dig, and port-level validation. * Reviewing and maintaining network access controls, security group rules, and routing paths to ensure secure and reliable communication. * Troubleshooting platform, infrastructure, DNS, certificate, secret management, load balancing, and network-related issues across environments. * Monitoring platform health, creating dashboards, defining alerts, and improving observability using Cloud Watch. * Partnering with development and security teams to enhance CI/CD, platform reliability, and compliance. * Supporting incident response, root cause analysis, and operational readiness activities. * Driving automation for platform operations, environment creation, upgrades, patching, and recovery procedures. * Leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools for scripting, automation, troubleshooting, documentation, and operational efficiency. * Evaluating opportunities for AI-powered tooling to improve platform support workflows, knowledge management, and incident response. * Maintaining technical documentation, architecture diagrams, run books, and operational standards. ## Related Videos - [Chat App Leak, Tesla’s Blurry Dashcam, and Meta Currency Beats Bitcoin - Keith Cirkel](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1857-chat-app-leak-tesla-s-blurry-dashcam-and-meta-currency-beats-bitcoin-keith-cirkel) - [Don’t Insert Crazy! 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