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# Cloud Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Shield Consulting Solutions
- **Location:** Annapolis Junction, MD, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Python (Programming Language), Software Deployment, Software Requirements Analysis, Cloud Platform System, Containerization, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Terraform
- **Published:** September 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9138449/cloud-platform-engineer

## About the Role

* 14 years of experience as a software engineer
 * Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline
 + 4 additional years of experience as a software engineer may be substituted for a degree

Required Experience:

 * Python experience
 * Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
 * Containerization (K8s or AWS Elastic Container Service)
 * Cloud native application deployment experience in AWS
 * Agile lifecycle experience
 * Experience deriving software requirements experience collaborating on multi-team software projects

Desired Experience:
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 + Gitlab CI/CD pipeline automation
 + Cloud architecture deployment (AWS architecture)
 + Cloud stability, resilience, failover



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