AWS Platform Engineer

10 years of overall IT experience including hands-on development systems engineering cloud engineering infrastructure operations or security remediation background.

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Cybersecurity Engineering or related field; masters degree preferred.

5-10 years of experience in cloud engineering and automation with a focus on AWS cloud services.

Minimum of 8-10 years of IT experience of which at least 5 years must be in AWS cloud automation administration platform engineering or security remediation.

3-5 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering cloud operations or production engineering role.

3 years of experience implementing containerization Kubernetes AWS EKS cloud technologies DevOps toolchains Jenkins Artifactory Bitbucket infrastructure as code automated provisioning/release and CI/CD patterns.

Must be well versed in Terraform automation Ansible playbooks Python code secure scripting and policy-as-code concepts.

In-depth knowledge of AWS services and solutions including but not limited to EC2 S3 RDS Lambda VPC IAM CloudFormation CloudWatch CloudTrail Config Guard Duty Inspector Security Hub KMS Secrets Manager WAF and EKS.

Strong understanding of cloud architecture principles security design patterns vulnerability remediation practices and best practices for building scalable resilient secure and compliant cloud environments.

Proficiency in infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform AWS CloudFormation or AWS CDK.

Exposure to artificial intelligence patterns machine learning and engineering of AWS solutions is preferred including knowledge of Amazon Kendra Sage Maker Lambda Bedrock and retrieval-augmented generation models.

Excellent communication collaboration and leadership skills with the ability to effectively interact with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Minimum of one AWS certification is required; AWS Certified Security - Specialty Solutions Architect SysOps Administrator or DevOps Engineer certification is preferred.

Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment preferred.

Solid understanding of software coding techniques and experience across the full software engineering lifecycle including build integration test release deployment and automation leveraging Python.

Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines containerization technologies Docker Kubernetes serverless computing and secure software delivery is a plus.

Experience developing and challenging engineering solutions and practices while collaborating across developers architects security engineers platform engineers and infrastructure teams.

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