AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

Glint Tech Solutions LLC

About the job AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

AWS Cloud Platform Engineer
Location: Hybrid - Reston, VA (Onsite 1x/week; local DC/MD/VA candidates only)

Company Overview

Glint Tech Solutions is a women-owned global staffing and IT recruiting firm connecting top technical talent with leading enterprise clients across the United States.

Project Description

Our client, a leading enterprise healthcare organization, is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer to drive cloud-native transformation, platform engineering, and automation initiatives within a large-scale AWS environment. This is a hands-on SME-level role requiring deep expertise in EKS-based provisioning, infrastructure as code, and SRE principles.

Note: Video interview followed by an in-person F2F interview is required.

Key Responsibilities

Communicate architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies, balancing short-term trade-offs against long-term commitments and costs
Drive end-to-end lifecycle of services from inception and design through deployment and operations
Establish cloud-native automation capabilities to improve developer experience
Support system design consulting, platform/framework development, capacity planning, and launch reviews
Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and engage directly with internal customers
Lead migration of legacy applications to microservices architecture hosted on AWS
Leverage cloud-native components including containers, immutable infrastructure, microservices, and service mesh to build highly available and fault-tolerant systems
Automate end-to-end patching, upgrades, and maintenance of the AWS cloud ecosystem
Monitor and manage stability, availability, and performance across enterprise systems (systems, network, storage, security)
Make data-driven recommendations to improve software delivery efficiency
Mentor peers and socialize engineering solutions across teams

Mandatory Skills

Minimum 10 years of overall IT experience, with at least 5 years in AWS Cloud
SME-level expertise in platform engineering and administration, with hands-on EKS-based provisioning via automation
Minimum one active AWS certification required
Strong hands-on knowledge of AWS services: VPC, Networking, Direct Connect, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups, EC2, S3, IAM, ELBs, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EKS
Hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible playbooks, and Python (Boto3/Lambda functions)
Experience with AWS CloudFormation and CDK
Proficiency in Linux Bash scripting and Linux system administration
3+ years with Kubernetes/containerization and DevOps toolchain (Jenkins, Ansible, Artifactory, Bitbucket, etc.)
Solid CI/CD pipeline experience and IaC/automated provisioning practices
Experience with SRE principles and transformation initiatives
Strong leadership experience driving cloud transformation programs
Basic AI exposure or experience required

Nice-to-Have Skills

Hands-on production experience with Amazon EKS
Familiarity with Git/repo, Crucible, and other DevOps tooling
Experience with enterprise cloud migration and modernization efforts

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