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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # AWS Platform Engineer - **Company:** ICONMA LLC - **Location:** Reston, VA, United States - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Kubernetes Security, Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Computing Platforms, JIRA, Audit Trail, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Engineering, Computer Programming, Software Design Patterns, Linux, DevOps, Fault Tolerance, Groovy, Identity and Access Management, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Information Systems Security Architecture Professional, Python (Programming Language), Apache Maven, Cisco Nexus Switches, Nginx, Octopus Deploy, OpenShift, Cloud Services, Ansible, Shell Script, Software Engineering, Software Vulnerability Management, Datadog, Policy as Code, AWS Cdk, Data Logging, Enterprise Software Applications, Cloud Platform System, Istio, Grafana, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), AWS ECS, Git, Cloudformation, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Data Analytics, Performance Monitor, Bitbucket, Opsworks, Functional Programming, Cloudwatch, Puppet, Terraform, Prisma Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, New Relic (SaaS), Appdynamics, Serverless Computing, AWS EKS, Atlassian Bamboo, Docker, Jenkins, Artifactory, Microservices - **Published:** November 8, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/e9a80b98-3dd1-4bc1-8794-fe75f75df0ac/aws-platform-engineer ## About the Role * Cloud Security and Vulnerability Remediation: AWS security services, vulnerability management, configuration compliance, security guardrails, threat detection, IAM hardening, encryption, logging, monitoring, patching, and secure cloud engineering. * Development: Experience programming with one or more languages, including Python, Java, Groovy, or Go. * IaC Tools for Platform Automation: Strong skills and experience in at least one of the following: Ansible, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK. * Containers: Docker or other OCI-certified containers is a plus. * Container Orchestration Platform: Experience with Kubernetes, AWS EKS, or AWS ECS is a plus. * CNI Plugins: Calico, Flannel, Weave Net, or similar technologies. * Service Mesh: Istio, AWS App Mesh, OpenShift Service Mesh, or similar technologies. * Container Security Tools: Twist lock, Sysdig, Aqua, Prisma Cloud, or similar tools is a plus. * Platform Monitoring, Observability, & Performance Tools: Nginx, New Relic, AppDynamics, Datadog, Thanos, Jaeger, LogDNA, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, and related observability tools. * DevOps Tools: Git/Repo, Crucible, Bitbucket, Jira, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Bamboo, Maven, Artifactory, Nexus, and related tools. * Understanding of cloud-native architecture and secure-by-design engineering principles. * Linux, shell scripting, and general administration skills. * Network, security, plugins, and storage skills. * AWS skills: EC2, S3, EBS, EFS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Config, GuardDuty, Inspector, Security Hub, KMS, Secrets Manager, WAF, and EKS. * Cloud, security, and DevOps certifications, including AWS certification. * AWS Cloud certification, minimum of one, is required. + AWS Certified Security - Specialty, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer is preferred. ## Description Our Client, a Health Insurance company, is looking for an AWS Platform Engineer for their Reston, VA location., * Lead hands-on remediation of AWS cloud security vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, compliance gaps, and platform risks across production and non-production environments. * Review security findings from AWS-native and enterprise security tools, determine remediation approach, implement fixes, and validate successful closure. * Communicate architectural decisions, remediation plans, goals, strategies, and short-term trade-offs versus long-term commitments, risk reduction, and cost impacts. * Engage in and improve the end-to-end lifecycle of cloud services, starting from inception and design through deployment, operations, monitoring, and continuous security improvement. * Establish automation capabilities leveraging AWS-native services, infrastructure as code, policy as code, and CI/CD pipelines to improve developer experience and reduce recurring vulnerabilities. * Support activities including system design consulting, secure platform engineering, software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, launch reviews, and operational readiness reviews. * Troubleshoot difficult cloud security, infrastructure, and application platform issues and engage customers and stakeholders to drive timely remediation. * Learn and apply new AWS services, security capabilities, and engineering practices as required. * Improve system scalability, sustainability, reliability, and security through automation, repeatable patterns, and engineering standards. * Support enterprise cloud transformation, migration, modernization, and security posture improvement efforts. * Guide customers on cloud-native design, secure architecture patterns, AWS security controls, and platform guardrails. * Provide consultation on technology infrastructure planning, security remediation, and engineering for assigned systems; assess the implications of technology strategies on infrastructure capabilities and risk posture. * Establish strategies to migrate legacy applications to secure, cloud-native patterns, including microservices hosted on AWS Cloud. * Leverage cloud-native architecture components including containers, immutable infrastructure, microservices, service mesh, serverless capabilities, and managed AWS services to build highly available, fault-tolerant, and secure applications. * Conduct research on global technology, cloud security, and platform engineering trends and their applicability to FEPOC products in support of internal development teams and business initiatives. * Promote modern application design, engineering best practices, secure-by-design patterns, vulnerability mitigation, and lifecycle risk management. * Monitor and manage stability, availability, performance, and security of enterprise systems and platforms across IT domains. * Analyze systems, network, storage, cloud, and security telemetry to identify problems, trends, vulnerabilities, and opportunities for improvement. * Automate end-to-end processes to maintain, patch, upgrade, harden, and secure the AWS cloud ecosystem. * Make data-driven recommendations and decisions that improve the overall efficacy, efficiency, security, and reliability of software delivery and cloud platform capabilities. * Mentor peers and engage across teams to socialize solutions, improve security practices, and increase engineering maturity.