Lead AWS Platform Architect
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Source API remote eligibility restrictions: United StatesFull-TimeLead
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Job Details
- Experience
- 7+ years of professional experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, systems engineering, or a related discipline, including senior ownership of production environments; 5+ years of hands-on experience engineering and supporting AWS cloud environments.
- Required Skills
- AWSKubernetesTerraform
Requirements
- Have 7+ years of professional experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, systems engineering, or a related discipline, including senior ownership of production environments.
- Have 5+ years of hands-on experience engineering and supporting AWS cloud environments.
- Demonstrate deep hands-on Terraform expertise, including reusable modules, remote state, dependency management, and infrastructure drift remediation.
- Have significant experience operating Amazon EKS or Kubernetes at production scale.
- Have experience with Kubernetes networking, workload identity, Helm, autoscaling, ingress, load balancing, and cluster lifecycle management.
- Have hands-on experience with AWS services including VPC, IAM, EKS, RDS/Aurora, S3, CloudFront, and Secrets Manager.
- Have experience designing or supporting multi-environment and multi-account AWS architectures.
- Have hands-on GitOps experience using Argo CD, Flux, or comparable technologies, and experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines; GitLab CI/CD is strongly preferred.
- Have DevSecOps experience implementing automated security scanning, secrets detection, Infrastructure as Code scanning, container scanning, policy-as-code, or pipeline security gates.
- Have experience with Docker and secure containerized application environments, and support for cloud-native, microservices, or serverless architectures.
- Have working knowledge of federal cybersecurity frameworks such as FISMA, NIST SP 800-53, and RMF, and familiarity with technical evidence and controls for an Authority to Operate.
- Demonstrate troubleshooting, architecture, documentation, communication, mentoring, and technical leadership abilities.
Responsibilities
- Lead AWS platform architecture, engineering, security, and automation.
- Own and evolve Terraform across multi-environment and multi-account AWS infrastructure.
- Develop reusable Terraform modules and manage remote state, dependencies, lifecycle, and infrastructure drift.
- Design, operate, and improve production Amazon EKS environments and their networking, identity, add-ons, and lifecycle.
- Develop GitOps deployment models and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application delivery.
- Implement automated security controls, including scanning, secrets detection, policy-as-code, and deployment gates.
- Help design and implement a federal multi-account AWS landing-zone architecture.
- Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and continuous security visibility; maintain technical evidence for assessments and ATO activities.
- Troubleshoot AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, networking, GitOps, CI/CD, and security issues.
- Mentor engineers, provide technical direction, and improve engineering standards for review, change management, and operations.
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