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# AWS Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Reston, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $96,600.0 - $160,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, Data Centers, Linux, DevOps, Middleware, Fault Tolerance, Identity and Access Management, Subnetting, Python (Programming Language), Linux System Administration, PRINCE2, Software Architecture, Cloud Services, Ansible, Software Engineering, Toolchain, Policy as Code, Istio, Boto3, AWS Lambda, HybridCloud, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Git, Cloudformation, Containerization, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Bitbucket, Cloudwatch, Software Coding, Terraform, Legacy Systems, Jenkins, Artifactory, Microservices
- **Published:** August 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/us31d7090cb71a4c0a4ee0c84b554a4858

## About the Role

Minimum of One AWS certification is required.
Minimum of 10years of IT experience of which at least 5 years must be in AWS Cloud. Seeking SME level knowledge in Provision using Automation via EKS. Extensive Knowledge in Provision Platform engineering and Administration is critical.
AI experience is required
Strong Leadership experience with driving Transformation initiatives
Experience with SRE principles and transformation
3+ years of experience with Containerization (Kubernetes), Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure etc.), DevOps tool chain (Ansible, Jenkins, Artifactory, bitbucket, etc.), and technical patterns (IaC, Automated Provisioning/Release, CI/CD, etc.)
Solid understanding of Software coding techniques and experience with full spectrum of Software engineering (Build, Integration, Test, Releasing and Deployment) leveraging Python.
Experience in Developing and/or challenging engineering solutions/practices and collaborating with peers within and outside of immediate team, including customers (Dev, Architects, Engineers)
Platform Engineering Lead with Hands -on Experience: Building robust Middleware Environments, previous Linux System administration is required.
Must have strong hands-on knowledge of AWS platform and services but not limited to VPC, Networking, Direct Connect, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups, EC2, S3, IAM, ELBs, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EKS etc.
Must Have Hands on current Implementation and Production level experience in AWS Cloud.
Hands on experience with Automation and Infrastructure Provisioning is a must
Our goal is to only provision infrastructure with Code, and Policy As Code.
Must be familiar with Terraform automation, Ansible playbooks, and Python code.
Experience with AWS Cloud Formation and CDK is required.
Must have hands on experience in writing Lambda functions preferably in Python (Boto3).
Must be well versed in writing Linux Bash scripts.
Hands-on experience with Containerization and Amazon EKS is a big plus.
A great understanding of various DevOps toolchains, including Git/repo, Crucible, Jenkins etc.
Solid understanding and experience with a CI/CD tool chain.

## Description

Our client is seeking a AWS Platform Engineer in the Washington DC, Maryland and/or Virginia area for a long term contract position with our customer in Reston VA (Hybrid position, 1x onsite per week in Reston VA) Roles & Responsibilities:
Communicates Architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies, while highlighting short-term trade-offs vs. long-term commitments and costs
Engage in and improve the end-to-end Lifecycle of services, starting from Inception & design, deployment, and operations.
Establish automation capabilities leveraging Cloud native solutions, to improve the Developer experience.
Support activities, including System design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
Willingness to roll up the sleeves and troubleshoot difficult issues and engage the Customer.
Willingness to learn new AWS Services and other technologies as required.
Systems Scalability and sustainability leveraging automation and strive to improve our systems with changes that improve reliability and velocity.
Experience with Enterprise Cloud transformation and migration efforts.
Actively participate and help guide customers on using Cloud-native design and architecture patterns.
Provide Consultation on Technology infrastructure planning and engineering for assigned systems; Assesses the implications of technology strategies on infrastructure capabilities.
Establish strategies to migrate Legacy applications by conversion to multiple Microservices and hosting on AWS Cloud platform.
Leverage Cloud-native architecture components including Containers, immutable infrastructure, Microservices, Service Mesh etc., to build highly available and Fault tolerant applications.
Conduct research on the global technology trends and their applicability to FEPOC products in support of our internal development teams and business initiatives.
Promotes and ensures Modern application design, applies engineering best practices in the development and operations life cycle and mitigates vulnerabilities.
Monitors and manages the Stability, Availability, and Performance of enterprise systems and platforms across IT domains.
(e.g., Systems, Network, Storage, Security) by analyzing systems to identify problems, trends, and opportunities for improvement.
Automate end to end process to maintain (patches and upgrades) of our AWS Cloud ecosystem.
Makes data-driven recommendations and decisions and continuously improves the overall efficacy and efficiency of our software delivery capabilities.
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