Cloud Platform Engineer

AdaptiveVets Solutions is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to design, implement, maintain, and optimize enterprise cloud platform services for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)., * Design, implement, and maintain AWS GovCloud platform services including EKS, VPC architecture, IAM, Route53, load balancing, ElastiCache, RDS, DocumentDB, Kinesis, MSK, Athena, and S3.

• Implement and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) for all environment provisioning and automated infrastructure operations.
• Design and maintain multi-region architectures, cross-VPC connectivity, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Support Istio service mesh configuration, event-driven architectures, and enterprise integration service operations.
• Monitor platform performance trends, identify optimization opportunities, and improve resiliency and cost efficiency.
• Ensure all platform components comply with Federal security, operational, and availability requirements including VA TRM and NIST standards.
• Execute post-deployment production validation testing to confirm service stability after all changes.
• Support automated configuration drift detection, remediation, and IaC governance processes.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call operations and incident response.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or related field (4 additional years of relevant experience may substitute)
• 8+ years of hands-on cloud platform engineering experience in AWS environments
• Expert knowledge of AWS GovCloud services including EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, Route53, RDS, DocumentDB, ElastiCache, Kinesis, MSK, and S3
• Proficiency with Terraform IaC, platform automation, and automated environment provisioning
• Experience designing multi-region architectures, cross-VPC connectivity, and disaster recovery strategies
• Familiarity with Istio service mesh and event-driven architectures

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or Professional
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or IT (Required)

Experience:

• AWS cloud platform engineering: 8 years (Required)

License/Certification:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Preferred)
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) (Preferred)
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (Preferred)
• CompTIA Security+ (Preferred)

Location and Ability to Commute:

• Remote

Security clearance:

• Public Trust (Preferred), * Bachelor’s (Required)

Experience:

• AWS cloud platform engineering: 8 years (Required)
• Agile: 4 years (Preferred)

Language:

• English (Required)

License/Certification:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Preferred)
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) (Preferred)
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (Preferred)
• CompTIA Security+ (Preferred)

Referral program, Parental leave, 401(k), Health insurance, 401(k) matching, Paid time off, Vision insurance, Health savings account Full-time On call Remote, * 401(k)

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Referral program
• Vision insurance