Cloud Platform Engineer

Purpose

The Cloud Platform Engineer supports the design, implementation, and maintenance of secure, reliable, and scalable cloud infrastructure that powers business-critical applications. This role focuses on day-to-day platform operations, infrastructure automation, monitoring, deployment workflows, and supporting cloud-native and traditional workloads.

Working under the guidance of senior engineers and cloud leadership, the Cloud Platform Engineer helps build and enhance infrastructure using modern cloud tooling, Infrastructure-as-Code, container technologies, and CI/CD automation. The engineer contributes to platform reliability, troubleshooting, and continuous improvements across the organization's AWS environment.

This position is ideal for a cloud engineering professional who has foundational experience and is ready to develop deeper expertise in platform engineering, automation, Kubernetes, and AWS cloud operations.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field preferred.
• Equivalent professional experience in cloud engineering, systems engineering, or DevOps will be considered.

Years of Experience in Related Field

• 2–5 years of experience in Cloud Engineering, Systems Engineering, DevOps, or related fields.
• Hands-on experience supporting cloud infrastructure or application environments.
• Exposure to production systems and structured operational processes.

Credentials or Certifications

• Preferred
• AWS Cloud Practitioner
• AWS Solutions Architect – Associate (plus)
• Terraform Associate (plus)
• Kubernetes fundamentals or introductory certifications (plus)

Required
Specialized Knowledge, Skills and Abilities and/or Competencies

• Understanding of cloud architecture principles across compute, networking, storage, identity, and security
• Practical experience with AWS services including RDS, EKS, Route 53, VPC, Transit Gateway, EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, Systems Manager
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• Experience working with CI/CD workflows using version-controlled pipeline definitions (pipeline-as-code, automated validation, runner-based execution)
• Basic to intermediate scripting skills (Bash, Python, or similar)
• Experience administering Linux systems and exposure to Windows Server administration
• General understanding of monitoring, logging, dashboards, metrics, and alerting
• Experience working with relational databases including PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Microsoft SQL Server
• Ability to troubleshoot issues across application, network, and infrastructure layers
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate within technical teams

Preferred

• Experience supporting containerized applications or Kubernetes workloads, preferably Amazon EKS
• Experience with multi-