Sr. AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

Location: Hybrid 4 days onsite per week (Miami FL)

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer to join a growing engineering this role you will play a critical part in designing building and scaling cloud infrastructure on AWS enabling product teams to deliver applications quickly securely and reliably.

You will work with modern cloud-native technologies Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) GitOps workflows and observability platforms to support a robust highly available cloud environment.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

• Design provision and manage AWS cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK.
• Build and maintain scalable secure and highly available cloud platforms that support application development and deployment.

Containerization & Kubernetes

• Deploy and manage containerized workloads in Amazon EKS.
• Implement GitOps-based deployment workflows using tools such as Flux CD.

CI/CD & GitOps Enablement

• Enable development teams to build and deploy applications using Git-based workflows.
• Support CI/CD pipelines leveraging GitHub GitHub Actions and related tooling.

Observability & Monitoring

• Implement and maintain observability solutions for metrics logging and tracing using modern monitoring platforms (e.g. Splunk Observability Cloud or similar tools).

Troubleshooting & Operations

• Proactively troubleshoot and resolve platform and application issues across AWS services including EKS Elastic Beanstalk and Lambda.
• Support operational excellence through automation documentation and continuous improvement.

Networking CDN & Security

• Work with CDN and Web Application Firewall (WAF) technologies.
• Apply cloud security best practices and ensure compliance with organizational standards.

Collaboration & Communication

• Partner closely with software security and infrastructure teams.
• Clearly communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams and platform documentation.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in Cloud Engineering Platform Engineering or DevOps roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS.
• Proven experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (CloudFormation CDK or similar).
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing Kubernetes workloads (Amazon EKS preferred).
• Solid understanding of GitOps principles and tools (Flux CD or similar).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (e.g. GitHub Actions).
• Experience with cloud observability monitoring and logging platforms.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking security and scalable architectures.
• Experience supporting transactional highly available applications.

Soft Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong collaboration skills within cross-functional teams.
• Ability to create clear infrastructure and architecture diagrams.
• Self-driven proactive and comfortable working independently.
• Continuous learner with a strong problem-solving mindset.

Bonus Qualifications

• AWS certifications (Associate or Professional level).
• Experience with Docker and additional container tooling.
• Experience with alternative GitOps or CI/CD platforms.
• Exposure to security scanning or vulnerability management tools.
• Contributions to open-source projects.