AWS Cloud Platform Engineer
Job in
Reston, Fairfax County, Virginia, 22090, USA
Listed on 2026-07-16
Listing for:
Glint Tech Solutions LLC
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-07-16
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
AWS, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, SRE/Site Reliability
Job Description & How to Apply Below
AWS Cloud Platform Engineer
Location: Hybrid – Reston, VA (Onsite 1x/week; local DC/MD/VA candidates only)
Glint Tech Solutions is a women-owned global staffing and IT recruiting firm connecting top technical talent with leading enterprise clients across the United States.
Project DescriptionOur client, a leading enterprise healthcare organization, is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer to drive cloud-native transformation, platform engineering, and automation initiatives within a large-scale AWS environment. This is a hands‑on SME-level role requiring deep expertise in EKS-based provisioning, infrastructure as code, and SRE principles.
Note:
Video interview followed by an in-person F2F interview is required.
- Communicate architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies, balancing short-term trade-offs against long-term commitments and costs
- Drive end-to-end lifecycle of services from inception and design through deployment and operations
- Establish cloud-native automation capabilities to improve developer experience
- Support system design consulting, platform/framework development, capacity planning, and launch reviews
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and engage directly with internal customers
- Lead migration of legacy applications to microservices architecture hosted on AWS
- Leverage cloud-native components including containers, immutable infrastructure, microservices, and service mesh to build highly available and fault-tolerant systems
- Automate end-to-end patching, upgrades, and maintenance of the AWS cloud ecosystem
- Monitor and manage stability, availability, and performance across enterprise systems (systems, network, storage, security)
- Make data-driven recommendations to improve software delivery efficiency
- Mentor peers and socialize engineering solutions across teams
- Minimum 10 years of overall IT experience, with at least 5 years in AWS Cloud
- SME-level expertise in platform engineering and administration, with hands‑on EKS-based provisioning via automation
- Minimum one active AWS certification required
- Strong hands‑on knowledge of AWS services: VPC, Networking, Direct Connect, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups, EC2, S3, IAM, ELBs, Lambda, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, EKS
- Hands‑on experience with Terraform, Ansible playbooks, and Python (Boto3/Lambda functions)
- Experience with AWS Cloud Formation and CDK
- Proficiency in Linux Bash scripting and Linux system administration
- 3+ years with Kubernetes/containerization and Dev Ops toolchain (Jenkins, Ansible, Artifactory, Bitbucket, etc.)
- Solid CI/CD pipeline experience and IaC/automated provisioning practices
- Experience with SRE principles and transformation initiatives
- Strong leadership experience driving cloud transformation programs
- Basic AI exposure or experience required
- Hands‑on production experience with Amazon EKS
- Familiarity with Git/repo, Crucible, and other Dev Ops tooling
- Experience with enterprise cloud migration and modernization efforts
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