Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Solugenix is assisting a client, a prestigious and large investment management company, in their search for a Senior
Cloud Platform Engineer
. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity based out of Irvine, CA (Hybrid).

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure. Focus on platform enablement, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, event-driven streaming, and operational excellence across multi-account AWS environments — empowering engineering teams through self-service tooling and reliable, well-governed cloud foundations.

• Design and operate scalable, highly available, multi-account cloud infrastructure (AWS).
• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code modules and standards using Terraform.
• Develop reusable platform patterns, landing zones, and golden paths for engineering teams.
• Optimize and operate CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, Harness).
• Enable developer self-service and reduce manual intervention through automation.
• Manage Kubernetes platforms (EKS) networking, scaling, upgrades, and workload onboarding.
• Operate and support Kafka-based event streaming platforms — topics, schemas, connectors, and cluster reliability.
• Build and integrate REST APIs and self-service tooling to streamline platform workflows.
• Implement cloud security and governance (IAM, OAuth/OIDC, OKTA, SSL/TLS, secrets management).
• Drive cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, and Fin Ops practices.
• Implement observability — metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and SLOs.
• Lead incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis across platform and runtime systems.
• Partner with application teams to troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment, and runtime issues.
• Drive continuous improvement using operational insights and user feedback.
• Enhance documentation, runbooks, and platform usability.

• Cloud: AWS (EKS, EC2, VPC/Networking, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda)
• IaC:
  Terraform (modules, state management, policy-as-code)
• CI/CD:
  Git Hub Actions, Harness
• Security: OAuth, OIDC, OKTA, SSL/TLS, IAM, secrets management

• Programming/Scripting:
  Java/Python
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving across distributed systems.
• Ability to translate operational issues into durable platform improvements.
• System-thinking approach to reliability, security, and cost.
• Effective collaboration and technical mentorship across engineering teams.

Pay Range for CA, CO, IL, NJ, NY, WA, and DC: $70/hour to $75/hour. Starting rate of pay offered may vary depending on factors including but not limited to, position offered, location, education, training, and/or experience.

Solugenix will consider qualified applicants with a criminal history pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act and Ordinance. Applicants do not need to disclose their criminal history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if we are concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, applicants will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.