Senior AWS Platform Engineer; Remote

Overview

Want to energize your career? Looking for stability with the freedom to innovate? At Certi Path you can have both while making the world more secure and simplifying access processes. We are seeking an experienced Senior AWS Platform Engineer to lead the design, security, and scaling of our AWS EKS-based CI/CD platform and bootstrap our IVIP production cloud services. Join our team of engineers, make a difference, and crush your goals at Certi Path.

I’ve never heard of Certi Path. What do you do?

We are the experts in software and services for high-assurance digital identity verification and management. We are an established organization with a 21-year track record of delivering on our promises with the drive and entrepreneurial spirit of a start-up. Certi Path is focused on bringing facility and network access management for commercial clients and government agencies into the 21st century.

What will the Senior AWS Platform Engineer at Certi Path Do?

You will be a technical leader and individual contributor who sets the bar for AWS Kubernetes and SaaS infrastructure excellence across the organization. You’ll design and deliver secure, high-performance, production-grade CI/CD systems on AWS EKS using Git Hub Actions and partner closely with platform, security, and executive leadership to shape the technical roadmap for our AWS EKS.

This is not a people-management role; it’s a deeply technical position for infrastructure engineers who still love building and automating while influencing architecture and strategy at the highest level.

You will be asked to work 3 days per week at our Reston, Virginia location.

• Lead the design, provisioning, and ongoing maintenance of production-grade AWS EKS clusters (Rancher-managed) using Infrastructure as Code.
• Own the reliability, availability, performance, and security of production cloud services, including participation in an on-call rotation and off-hours incident response.
• Architect, deploy, and scale Actions Runner Controller (both legacy and the new Git Hub-supported gha-runner-scale-set) on AWS EKS with ephemeral runner pods, autoscaling, and Git Hub App-based authentication.
• Champion cybersecurity best practices across the entire platform, including least-privilege IAM, pod security policies, network policies, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and compliance controls.
• Optimize container image building pipelines (Docker-in-Docker → Kaniko) and manage internal registries (Nexus, Harbor) to support our SaaS delivery platforms.
• Write and maintain Terraform, Helm, and Kubernetes manifests for EKS, networking, node pools, storage, and CI/CD components while driving Git Ops practices.
• Help design and manage hybrid networking between AWS EKS and on-prem Nutanix environments, including VLANs, routing, Load Balancer services, and secure egress to Git Hub Enterprise and other SaaS services.
• Instrument Prometheus/Grafana stacks, monitor runner pod lifecycle, build performance, and cluster resource utilization while implementing proactive scaling.

What qualifications do you look for?

You might be the Senior AWS Platform Engineer we’re looking for if you have:

• U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a government clearance.
• At least a bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of progressive professional software engineering experience or Dev Ops experience.
• 5+ years of expert-level AWS Kubernetes experience with EKS (Rancher-managed), EC2 (spot + reserved instances), VPC networking, IAM, Security Groups, Transit Gateway, and cost-optimized SaaS infrastructure on AWS.
• Deep expertise building and operating production CI/CD platforms at scale, including on-call support and incident response.
• Expert-level Kubernetes and CI/CD experience, including Actions Runner Controller (legacy + new gha-runner-scale-set), Helm, ephemeral runners, Docker-in-Docker, Kaniko, and Git Hub Enterprise ().
• Strong IaC and automation skills with Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes manifests, and Git Ops workflows.
• A strong security-first mindset…