Lead Platform Engineer

US Citizen, Green Card, H-1B, OPT-EAD, CPT, Other

US Citizen, Green Card, OPT-EAD, CPT, H-1B, H4-EAD, Other

Seeking a highly Lead hands-on Platform Engineer with deep expertise in designing and building cloud infrastructure didates should demonstrate strong proficiency in Terraform, serverless architectures, AWS Lambda, ECS, event-driven systems, and streaming technologies. Experience in Dev Ops, SRE, deployment, or release management is valuable but should be considered supplementary rather than the primary qualification.

• Lead the design and implementation of secure, scalable, and highly available AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Design and manage AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, EKS/ECS, Lambda, Cloud Front, Route 53, ELB, Cloud Watch, and others.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Cloud Formation, or similar tools.
• Establish and enforce cloud security, governance, networking, and compliance best practices.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, performance, and production issues.
• Collaborate with application, security, architecture, and platform teams.
• Conduct technical reviews and establish cloud engineering standards and best practices.
• Mentor and guide junior and senior engineers and provide technical leadership.
• Identify opportunities for cost optimization and improve AWS resource utilization.

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud architecture and engineering.
• Strong knowledge of AWS networking, including VPC, subnets, route tables, NAT/Internet Gateways, security groups, NACLs, and Transit Gateway.
• Expertise in Terraform/IaC.
• Strong understanding of Docker and Kubernetes, preferably EKS.
• Experience with IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, security controls, and cloud governance.
• Experience with Git-based version control.
• Strong understanding of cloud monitoring, logging, and observability.
• Knowledge of AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.