AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

Vega consulting is Hiring - Lead, AWS Cloud Platform Engineers for our direct client located in Reston, VA.
Seeking W2 Candidates that will travel on site to Reston, VA once a week.

Vega is seeking an experienced and dynamic AWS Cloud Platform Engineer to provide hands‑on technical expertise for supporting our AWS footprint, including Security and Guardrails. As an AWS Cloud Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and integrating our cloud platform resources on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The selected candidate will collaborate with a team of talented cloud engineers and technology teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and secure cloud solutions that support the company's growth and innovation.

• 10+ years of overall experience in IT including hands‑on Development and Systems engineering background.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field; master's 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 and Administration.
• 3-5 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering role
• 3+ years of experience with implementation of Containerization (Kubernetes), AI workloads, Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, or Google, etc.), Dev Ops tool chain (Jenkins, Artifactory, Bitbucket, etc.), and technical patterns (IaC, Automated Provisioning/Release, CI/CD, etc.)
• Must be well versed in Terraform automation, Ansible playbooks, and Python code.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS services and solutions, including but not limited to EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, Cloud Formation, and Cloud Watch.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture principles, design patterns, and best practices for building scalable, resilient, and secure cloud environments.
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or AWS Cloud Formation.
• Exposure to Artificial intelligence patterns and engineering of AWS solutions. Good knowledge of leveraging Amazon Kendra, Lambda, Bedrock, Rag models etc.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills, with the ability to effectively interact with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Minimum of 1 AWS certification (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Dev Ops Engineer is required.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment preferred.
• Solid understanding of Software coding techniques and experience with
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and serverless computing is a plus.
• Must have full spectrum of Software engineering (Build, Integration, Test, Releasing and Deployment) leveraging Python.
• Experience in Developing and/or challenging engineering solutions/practices and collaborating with peers within and outside of immediate team, including customers (Developers, Architects, and Engineers.

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