AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

Role: AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

Location: Charlotte, NC (Hybrid - local candidates preferred) 

Employment type: W2 only

Duration: Long-term contract

Overall Experience

10+ years in Software, Cloud, or Platform Engineering

Senior Engineer trending toward Lead — must show leadership without formal management title

• Coding
• Strong, current hands-on coding in Python and/or Java; must pass live coding assessment
• Cloud Platform
• Hands-on AWS experience building enterprise-scale platforms (not just usage/consumption)
• Data Platforms
• Must show BOTH Data Lake AND Data Pipeline development experience
• Infrastructure as Code
• Terraform (Enterprise) — able to write, debug, and explain modules/providers
• Containers/Orchestration
• Kubernetes and Docker in production environments

Title Red Flags

Current/recent Architect or People Manager titles will likely be rejected

Required Technical Skills

• AWS Services
• Category
• Services
• Compute & Containers
• Lambda, EKS, Docker
• Storage & Data
• S3, RDS/PostgreSQL, Glue (Catalog, ETL, Crawler), Athena, Lake Formation
• Security & Access
• IAM, Secrets Manager, API Gateway
• Platform & Software Engineering

Category Skills

• Languages
• Python, Java, SQL
• Infrastructure
• Terraform Enterprise, Infrastructure as Code, Git
• Delivery
• CI/CD pipelines, API design, microservices, event-driven architecture
• Data Tools
• Apache Flink, Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg, Distributed data systems

Preferred Category Skills

• Streaming & Messaging
• Kafka, Kafka Schema Registry
• Additional AWS
• Step Functions, SNS, SQS, Aurora, EMR, Redshift, CloudWatch, CloudTrail
• Tooling
• Concourse, Vault/Secrets Management platforms
• Architecture
• Cloud migration experience, Kubernetes-based microservices, observability/monitoring

Strategic & Leadership Expectations
Beyond day-to-day delivery, this engineer is expected to act as a technical leader for the Torque platform portfolio:

• Help define the technical direction and roadmap for Swift, FAB, and related platform capabilities.
• Evaluate solution options for scalability, security, supportability, and enterprise-wide impact — not just the immediate ask.
• Identify the most effective and efficient way to deliver, favoring standardization, automation, and self-service over one-off fixes.
• Mentor and elevate other engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and pairing.
• Partner with Product Management, Architecture, Cybersecurity, and consuming product teams to balance speed with long-term platform health