AWS Platform Specialist

Bright Vision Technologies
United States
13 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
3 years minimum
Compensation
$135,000.0 - $150,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services Amazon Cloudfront Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon S3 Bash Shell Cloud Computing Cloud Computing Security Cloud Engineering DevOps Identity and Access Management Python (Programming Language) Key Management
+13 more
PCI Data Security Standards Windows PowerShell Zero Trust Network Access AWS Cdk Scripting Istio Software Troubleshooting Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Cloudformation Amazon Relational Database Service Infrastructure Automation Frameworks Functional Programming Terraform

Job description

We are seeking an experienced AWS Platform Specialist to design, build, and operate large-scale, secure, and highly available cloud platforms on Amazon Web Services. This is a deeply hands-on engineering role spanning architecture, infrastructure-as-code, automation, security, observability, and continuous operational improvement of mission-critical production workloads. The successful candidate will bring strong working knowledge of the AWS service portfolio, deep DevOps fundamentals, and a pragmatic, cost-aware design mindset, and will partner with application, security, and SRE teams to deliver resilient, cloud-native solutions that scale with the business.

Requirements

Sponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position., * Five or more years of cloud engineering experience, with at least three years focused on AWS in production environments.

  • Strong hands-on experience with AWS core services, including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront, and CloudFormation.
  • Production-grade experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
  • Solid experience designing and operating Amazon EKS or ECS clusters at scale.
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines across infrastructure and application workloads.
  • Strong scripting skills in Python and Bash, with familiarity in Go or PowerShell considered a plus.
  • Deep understanding of cloud security, IAM, encryption, key management, and compliance requirements.
  • Experience implementing observability, monitoring, and alerting in cloud-native environments.
  • Strong troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills., * AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional or DevOps Engineer - Professional certification.
  • Experience with multi-account AWS Organizations and centralized governance.
  • Familiarity with service mesh, eBPF-based observability, and zero-trust networking.
  • Exposure to FinOps practices and well-architected cost-optimization frameworks.
  • Experience operating regulated workloads (HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, FedRAMP).

Benefits & conditions

4.24.2 out of 5 stars Remote $135,000 - $150,000 a year - Full-time

About the company

Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States.

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