AWS Cloud Platform Engineer Lead

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Pay Range $82.12hr - $87.12hr

• Overall 10+ years of IT experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in AWS.
• Experience with AWS services like EC2, S3, Lambda, ALB, NLB, Sagemaker, and Bedrock.
• Experience with on-premises to AWS cloud migration projects.
• Provisioning infrastructure experience.
• Strong experience with EKS.
• At least 1 year of experience with Terraform.
• Experience with networking and troubleshooting skills like VPC.
• Any certification related to AWS is required.
• AI exposure is required in some roles.
• Experience with regulatory compliance is a big plus.
• Healthcare domain experience is a super plus.
• Team player attitude.

• Leads hands-on remediation of AWS cloud security vulnerabilities, including findings related to IAM, network exposure, encryption, logging, patching, configuration drift, container security, and cloud service misconfiguration.
• Develops and implements engineering solutions, automation, and guardrails to prevent recurring security vulnerabilities and system problems.
• Evaluates new and existing cloud services, systems, and security controls by performing in-depth testing, end-user reviews, vulnerability validation, remediation verification, and performance assessments.
• Improves engineering and cloud security knowledge by attending educational workshops and reviewing professional publications.
• Acts as a mentor for junior and senior team members, with emphasis on secure cloud engineering practices, vulnerability remediation, automation, infrastructure as code, and AWS platform standards.

• Strong hands-on AWS engineering experience.
• Experience analyzing and remediating findings from cloud security, vulnerability management, configuration compliance, container security, and monitoring tools.
• Strong leadership experience driving security remediation, cloud transformation, and platform engineering initiatives.
• Experience with SRE principles, operational resilience, and transformation.
• Solid understanding of software engineering practices, including build, integration, test, release, deployment, and automation using Python.

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or related technical field.
• 8 years proven success overseeing the design, development, implementation, support, and secure operation of software systems, cloud platforms, infrastructure services, or enterprise applications.
• In lieu of a bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required.