Cloud Platform Engineer

Yamaha Motor Finance Corp has an exciting opportunity for a Cloud Platform Engineer to join our Technology team! This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of cloud technology at Yamaha Motor Finance Corporation, U.S.A. (YMFUS) by designing, building, and securing a modern AWS-based platform that powers business-critical applications and enterprise initiatives.

As a Cloud Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in our cloud modernization journey, partnering with Engineering, Security, and implementation partners to deliver a secure, scalable, and highly available cloud platform. You'll work with industry-leading technologies including AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD automation while helping drive innovation, reliability, and operational excellence across the organization.

• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available AWS cloud infrastructure, including VPC, EC2, EKS, ALB, Route 53, Cloud Front, RDS, IAM, S3, KMS, and Secrets Manager, following AWS Well-Architected best practices.
• Build, administer, and optimize Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) environments, including cluster management, networking, ingress controllers, autoscaling, name spaces, RBAC, storage, and workload optimization.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, creating reusable modules and standardized environment provisioning across Development, QA, UAT, and Production environments.
• Design, implement, and support CI/CD pipelines using Git Hub Actions or similar technologies to enable automated testing, deployment, release approvals, rollback capabilities, and deployment consistency.
• Implement cloud security best practices, including IAM, least-privilege access controls, Secrets Manager, KMS, WAF, Guard Duty, Security Hub, vulnerability remediation, and platform hardening in partnership with Information Security teams.
• Develop and maintain centralized monitoring, logging, observability, and alerting solutions using Cloud Watch, Prometheus, Grafana, and related technologies to improve platform reliability and operational visibility.
• Support production operations by troubleshooting infrastructure and platform issues, conducting root cause analyses, implementing preventative measures, and improving platform resilience.
• Collaborate with application development teams and implementation partners to support containerization, cloud-native application deployments, environment management, and modernization initiatives.
• Create and maintain infrastructure documentation, operational runbooks, disaster recovery procedures, platform standards, and technical documentation.
• Participate in architecture reviews, cloud cost optimization efforts, capacity planning, performance tuning, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to the execution of the organization's cloud strategy and help drive adoption of modern platform engineering and Dev Ops practices.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field preferred; or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Five (5) or more years of experience in Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, Dev Ops, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Infrastructure Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Four (4) or more years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and supporting AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Three (3) or more years of hands-on production experience with Kubernetes, preferably Amazon EKS.
• Strong experience with Docker and containerization technologies.
• Strong experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines using Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, Git Lab CI, Azure Dev Ops, or similar platforms.
• Strong understanding of AWS networking, VPC architecture, load balancing, DNS, SSL/TLS, IAM, and cloud security best practices.
• Experience implementing cloud security services, including IAM, Secrets Manager, KMS, Guard Duty, Security Hub, WAF, and vulnerability remediation processes.
• Experience implementing monitoring,…