AWS Cloud Platform Engineer Lead

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Pay Range $82.12hr - $87.12hr

• 10+ years of relevant IT systems engineering experience.
• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field.
• In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.
• Minimum of 1 AWS certification is required.

• Identifies program objectives and technical development strategy; prepares System Engineering Management Plan, Work Breakdown Structures, master schedules, and key performance parameters.
• Develops and implements risk and opportunity management plans, identifies risks, assesses risks, develops mitigation plans, disaster recovery and tracks risks.
• Oversees the planning, design and implementation of system engineering projects.
• Plans, develops and leads systems engineering project and efforts.
• Develops and implements techniques to prevent system problems, troubleshoots incidents to recover services, and supports the root cause analysis.
• Manages customer and stakeholder needs, generates and develops requirements, and performs functional analysis.
• Acts as a mentor for junior and senior team members.
• Installs, tunes, upgrades, troubleshoots, and maintains all computer systems relevant to the supported applications.
• Expands engineering job knowledge and leading technologies by reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; educational opportunities and participating in professional societies.

• Experience with SRE principles and transformation.
• Experience in Developing and/or challenging engineering solutions/practices and collaborating with peers within and outside of immediate team, including customers.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment preferred.

• Strong Leadership experience with driving Transformation initiatives.
• Solid understanding of Software coding techniques and experience with full spectrum of Software engineering leveraging Python.
• Hands-on experience with Automation and Infrastructure Provisioning.
• Familiar with Terraform automation, Ansible playbooks, and Python code.
• Experience with AWS Cloud Formation and CDK.
• Hands-on experience with Containerization and Amazon EKS.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture principles, design patterns, and best practices for building scalable, resilient, and secure cloud environments.

• 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.
• 3+ years of experience with implementation of Containerization, AI workloads, Cloud technologies, and Dev Ops tool chain.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS services and solutions, including but not limited to EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, Cloud Formation, and Cloud Watch.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills, with the ability to effectively interact with technical and non-technical stakeholders.