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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Cloud & Platform Engineer - **Company:** NTT DATA, Inc. - **Location:** Irving, TX, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $114,400 - $145,600 - **Contract:** Contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Software System Penetration Testing, Audit Trail, User Authentication, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Engineering, Configuration Management, Cyber Security, System Configuration, Continuous Delivery, Data Deduplication, Data Integration, Github, Monitoring of Systems, Identity and Access Management, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Information Systems Security Architecture Professional, Key Management, Routing, Network Segmentation, Red Team (Cyber Security), Runbook, Security Information and Event Management, Data Streaming, Systems Integration, Software Vulnerability Management, Datadog, Google Cloud, Cloud Platform System, Data Ingestion, Cloud Monitoring, HybridCloud, Firewalls (Computer Science), Cloudformation, Containerization, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Patch Management, Enterprise Integration, Tools for Reporting, Hardware Infrastructure, Drift Detection, Api Design, Cloudwatch, Restful APIs, Terraform, Webhooks, Docker, Security Orchestration, Automation & Response, Jenkins - **Published:** November 3, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/86b3227c-87d1-4157-b17f-75a209a38d3d ## About the Role * Minimum 7+ years of overall experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, Security Engineering, or a related technical discipline. * Minimum 7+ years of Experience delivering, integrating, and operating complex third-party, vendor-hosted, or hybrid enterprise platforms. * Minimum 7+ years of Deep hands-on cloud engineering experience with AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform. * Minimum 7+ years of Experience with cloud infrastructure technologies including compute services such as EC2 E, networking, storage, IAM, and containerized workloads. * Minimum 7+ years of Experience with cloud networking technologies and patterns including VPCs, PrivateLink or equivalent private connectivity, VPNs, routing, and firewalls. * Minimum 7+ years of Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code technologies such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent enterprise provisioning tools. * Minimum 7+ years of Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or equivalent technologies. * Minimum 7+ years of Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including cloud-managed Kubernetes platforms such as EKS and/or GKE. * Minimum 7+ years of Experience managing the complete lifecycle of third-party technology platforms, including build, certification, integration, deployment, upgrades, and ongoing operations. * Minimum 7+ years of Experience working with enterprise technology-risk, platform-certification, security-review, and vendor-management processes. * Minimum 7+ years of Strong understanding of hybrid architectures combining cloud-hosted and on-premises infrastructure. * Minimum 7+ years of Experience managing connectivity, data flows, dependencies, and operational requirements across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments. * Minimum 7+ years of Experience designing and developing APIs, REST integrations, webhooks, and event-driven connectors. * Minimum 7+ years of Experience integrating enterprise platforms with SIEM, SOAR, vulnerability-management, ticketing, and security-reporting systems. * Minimum 7+ years of Experience with data ingestion, transformation, and workflow-automation patterns supporting security operations. * Working knowledge of penetration testing methodologies, vulnerability management, offensive security operations, and remediation workflows. * Understanding of enterprise security controls, network segmentation, least-privilege access, IAM, encryption, secrets management, and audit logging. * Minimum 7+ years of Experience configuring and operating security platforms within controlled enterprise production environments. * Strong platform operations experience, including monitoring, alerting, incident response, patch management, capacity management, and production support. * Minimum 7+ years of Experience with observability and monitoring technologies such as Datadog, CloudWatch, Google Cloud Monitoring, or equivalent platforms. * Minimum 7+ years of Experience developing operational documentation, architecture diagrams, implementation procedures, runbooks, and technical standards. * Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills. * Ability to collaborate effectively with Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Red Team, Vulnerability Management, Architecture, Risk, Compliance, and vendor teams. * Travel: Education * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Cloud Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience. Preferred Skills * Experience implementing or operating AI-powered penetration testing or automated offensive-security platforms. * Experience supporting Red Team, penetration testing, vulnerability-management, or attack-simulation programs. * Experience with advanced security automation and orchestration across SIEM, SOAR, and vulnerability-management platforms. * Experience operating security platforms within large, highly regulated enterprise environments. * Experience implementing advanced network segmentation and private-cloud connectivity architectures. * Experience with enterprise security architecture, technology-risk certification, and security-control validation. * AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification. * AWS Certified Security - Specialty certification. * Google Professional Cloud Architect certification. * Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer certification. * Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) certification. * Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification. * Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) certification. ## Description * Lead the end-to-end engineering, build, configuration, integration, certification, deployment, and operationalization of a third-party AI-powered penetration testing platform within the enterprise environment. * Provision and configure required infrastructure, platform components, security controls, connectivity, and supporting services across cloud and on-premises environments. * Own the technical certification process for the platform, including security assessments, architecture reviews, vendor validation, compliance reviews, and internal technology-risk approvals. * Develop and maintain platform architecture diagrams, build documentation, configuration standards, operational runbooks, and certification evidence. * Serve as the primary technical and engineering interface with third-party vendors throughout platform implementation, certification, upgrades, and ongoing operations. * Design and implement integrations between the penetration testing platform and enterprise security technologies, including SIEM, SOAR, vulnerability-management, ticketing, and reporting platforms. * Develop REST APIs, webhooks, event-driven connectors, and data integrations to automate findings ingestion, alert routing, remediation workflows, and downstream security processes. * Ensure platform integrations comply with enterprise security, networking, architecture, and data-governance standards. * Provision and manage cloud-native infrastructure across AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform, including compute, networking, storage, containers, IAM, and related services. * Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent technologies to enable repeatable, controlled, and auditable infrastructure deployment. * Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for platform deployment, component updates, configuration management, and drift detection. * Deploy and manage containerized platform components using Docker and Kubernetes environments such as Amazon EKS and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). * Design and enforce network segmentation, private connectivity, firewall controls, and least-privilege IAM across platform components. * Manage hybrid platform architecture spanning cloud-hosted and on-premises or co-location environments. * Provide ongoing operational management of the platform, including health monitoring, patching, capacity management, incident response, upgrades, and configuration changes. * Develop and maintain operational runbooks, alerting frameworks, Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and Service Level Objectives (SLOs). * Coordinate platform upgrades, vendor releases, patches, and configuration changes through established change-management processes. * Implement and maintain backup, recovery, resiliency, and business-continuity capabilities for platform components. * Collaborate with Red Team, Offensive Security, Vulnerability Management, and other security stakeholders to configure and optimize AI-powered penetration testing capabilities. * Manage platform scope configuration, target onboarding, testing policies, and governance to support safe and compliant penetration testing activities. * Support findings triage, deduplication, prioritization, and integration into vulnerability-management and remediation workflows. * Ensure platform components meet enterprise security standards for encryption, secrets management, audit logging, authentication, authorization, and access control. * Support technology-risk assessments, security reviews, compliance reviews, and internal or external audits related to the platform. * Maintain platform security and operational risk registers and coordinate remediation and escalation of identified risks. * Monitor platform health and performance using observability technologies such as Datadog, Amazon CloudWatch, Google Cloud Monitoring, or equivalent tools.