AWS Cloud Platform Engineer
100% remote
Security Clearance: U.S. citizenship or Green Card status is required, along with the ability to obtain a public trust clearance
W2 employment only
NO C2C

Responsibilities:
• Design, build, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available cloud platform environments across AWS Platform.
• Develop and maintain cloud platform services and landing zones, including networking, identity, compute, and storage components.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, or similar tools to automate infrastructure provisioning.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and platform automation frameworks to support consistent, repeatable deployments.
• Collaborate with application, DevOps, and security teams to onboard workloads and define platform standards, guardrails, and best practices.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize platform performance, cost, and reliability using observability tools for logs, metrics, and tracing.
• Implement and enforce security and compliance controls aligned with federal standards, including NIST and FedRAMP.
• Support cloud migration and modernization initiatives, including rehost, re-platform, and re-architect efforts.
• Develop reusable platform modules, templates, and self-service capabilities for engineering teams.
• Document platform architecture, configurations, and operational procedures.

Requirements:
• U.S. citizenship or Green Card status is required, along with the ability to obtain a public trust clearance.
• Minimum six (6) years of relevant experience in AWS cloud platform engineering
• Bachelor's degree required; four additional years of relevant experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Bicep.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, DevOps, Jenkins, or similar tools.
• Knowledge of cloud networking fundamentals, including VPC/VNet, subnets, routing, and security groups.
• Experience with container platforms and tools such as Kubernetes and Docker.
• Working knowledge of scripting or programming languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

System One not only serves as a valued partner for our clients, but we offer eligible employees health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans, as well as participation in a 401(k) plan.

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