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# AWS Lead Cloud Platform & Infrastructure Automation

- **Company:** BURGEON IT SERVICES LLC
- **Location:** Charlotte, NC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Database, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Amazon DynamoDB, Github, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Prometheus, AWS Cdk, Cloud Platform System, Grafana, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloudformation, Amazon Relational Database Service, Gitlab-ci, Git Flow, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Route53, Cloudwatch, Terraform, AWS EKS, Docker, Jenkins
- **Published:** September 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/5c902b33-6603-45ba-9e76-c5f27139e01c

## About the Role

We are looking for an experienced AWS Lead / Cloud Platform Engineer to lead AWS cloud infrastructure, automation, IaC, DevOps, security, and platform engineering initiatives. The candidate must have strong hands-on experience managing enterprise AWS environments and designing scalable, secure, and highly available cloud platforms.
Mandatory Skills:
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AWS: EC2, EKS, ECS, VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53, S3, RDS, DynamoDB
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Terraform Expert level; CloudFormation / AWS CDK
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Kubernetes: EKS, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker
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Automation: Python, Bash/Shell, Ansible, GitOps
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CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps
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AWS Security: IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, GuardDuty, Security Hub, WAF
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Monitoring: CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana
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Strong AWS networking, cloud security, troubleshooting, and SRE/reliability knowledge
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Experience with AWS Organizations, Control Tower, and multi-account AWS environments
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Experience designing reusable Terraform modules and IaC frameworks
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Strong experience in cloud automation, infrastructure provisioning, and DevOps
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Good technical leadership, stakeholder management, and mentoring skills

Required Experience:
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8+ years of IT experience
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5+ years of hands-on AWS experience
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Strong enterprise-scale AWS Cloud Platform experience
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Expert-level Terraform/IaC experience
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Strong Kubernetes/EKS and cloud automation experience
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Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field