Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - CL

About the Role

You will be the primary architect, operator, and developer-enablement partner for the client’s AWS engineering platform. This is a hands-on role responsible for designing, securing, scaling, and supporting the infrastructure, CI/CD services, developer tools, and observability capabilities that allow engineering teams to deliver software reliably. You will work across AWS, EKS/Kubernetes, Linux, networking, identity, automation, and shared engineering tools while mentoring teams on cloud-native practices.

Responsibilities

● Design and implement secure, multi-account structures and landing zones across AWS.

● Manage and evolve multi-cloud IAM, SSO, and Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC) to ensure least-privilege access.

● Enforce tagging standards, resource hierarchies, and cost-optimization strategies (rightsizing, idle resource elimination) to maintain fiscal accountability.

● Lead the deployment, scaling, and management of Kubernetes clusters (EKS, GKE, or self-managed). Manage CNI plugins, ingress controllers, and service meshes (Istio/Linkerd).

● Administer and optimize Linux (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, RHEL) and Windows Server environments, ensuring hardened configurations and automated patching.

● Manage the intersection of cloud services and traditional OS-level dependencies, including Active Directory integration and file system performance tuning.

● Develop and maintain modular templates using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.

● Build, orchestrate, and support CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Bitbucket, including webhooks, Jenkins agents, build/test stages, artifact publishing, approvals, deployments, rollback, notifications, and troubleshooting. Maintain GitOps workflows using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Flux, or ArgoCD where applicable.

● Design security controls including encryption at rest/transit (KMS), VPC Service Controls, and audit logging to meet SOC2, HIPAA, or FedRAMP standards.

● Leverage AI-native development tools (e.g., Cursor, GitHub Copilot) and LLM-powered agents to accelerate Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) authoring, automate complex root-cause analysis, and proactively optimize cloud utilization through predictive anomaly detection.

● Install, configure, administer, upgrade, and integrate shared engineering tools such as Jenkins, SonarQube, Polaris, and Trino. Configure authentication, permissions, databases or supporting services, backups, health checks, and CI/CD integrations; manage secure, role-based, auditable infrastructure access using StrongDM.

● Enable developers to onboard applications, create and manage jobs, consume standard pipeline templates, and troubleshoot build, test, scan, deployment, and environment issues.

● Provision and operate AWS infrastructure, EC2 instances, EKS clusters, worker nodes, networking, load balancers, storage, databases, and supporting services using Infrastructure as Code.

● Design and maintain SSO, IAM, Kubernetes RBAC, service accounts, secrets, and read/write access models with least-privilege controls and auditable access reviews.

● Define operational ownership for the engineering platform, including tool availability, capacity, patching, upgrades, backups, disaster recovery, certificates, plugin lifecycle, and documented runbooks.

● Establish monitoring and observability for infrastructure, EKS, CI/CD, shared tools, databases, and applications. Progress from availability monitoring and metrics to centralized logs, dashboards, tracing, SLI/SLO-based alerting, incident response, and root-cause analysis.

● Monitor service health indicators such as uptime, CPU/memory/disk, network, latency, errors, throughput, pod and node health, Jenkins queue and job failure rates, scan failures, Trino coordinator/worker health, database connectivity, storage capacity, certificates, security events, and access failures.

● Partner with developers and security teams to define onboarding standards, quality gates, vulnerability policies, deployment controls, alert thresholds, and platform documentation.

Qualifications

AWS specific (Must have)

Client-specific must-have capabilities

Jenkins administration and Jenkins file/Groovy pipeline development

Bitbucket webhooks, pull-request integration, and source-control workflows

SonarQube administration and CI/CD integration

Polaris or equivalent application-security scanning platform administration

Trino deployment, configuration, access control, and operational support

Observability using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Loki, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent tools

Developer enablement, platform onboarding, runbooks, and production troubleshooting

SSO, IAM, Kubernetes RBAC, read/write permissions, secrets, and auditability

• AWS Organizations & Landing Zones
• IAM, SSO, RBAC
• VPCs, Transit Gateway, networking
• EKS administration
• Terraform
• CloudFormation
• GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux)
• Linux administration
• Kubernetes security
• Cost optimization
• Multi-account governance
• SonarQube
• StrongDM

GCP specific (nice to have)

• GKE
• VPC Service Controls
• IAM
• Organization hierarchy

Azure specific (nice to have)

VNET, subscriptions

Experience You’ll Need

● Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

● 8+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, SRE, or DevOps, with deep proficiency in AWS and/or GCP.

● Expert-level experience administering Linux (shell scripting, kernel tuning) and Windows Server (Active Directory, Group Policy, PowerShell).

● Proven track record of running production-grade Kubernetes workloads at scale, including experience with Helm and container security.

● Strong proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash for infrastructure automation and tool development.

● Solid understanding of VPC/VNet design, peering, Transit Gateways, and zero-trust security models.

Client scope note: Requires hands-on ability to install or deploy, configure, integrate, secure, monitor, upgrade, and troubleshoot the listed tools—not only consume pre-provisioned services.

Preferred Qualifications

● Experience designing monitoring and observability from foundational infrastructure health through metrics, logs, dashboards, distributed tracing, SLI/SLOs, alerting, incident response, and continuous improvement using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent tools.

● Background in migrating legacy Windows/Linux monolithic applications into containerized microservices.

● Relevant certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Google Professional Cloud Architect, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).

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