Senior Cloud Platform Engineer
Anywhere
Category: DevOps
Industry: Communications
Workplace Type: Remote
Reference ID: JN -022026-105422
Date Posted: 03/11/2026
Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/1Wp5Io
Description:
Remote
Our client seeks a senior platform engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable AWS infrastructure. The role focuses on reusable platform capabilities, automation, and governance that enable engineering teams to deliver applications and data systems reliably. You will standardize infrastructure patterns, improve operational reliability with observability and runbooks, and ensure security and compliance across AWS environments.
Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.
Rate: $75.00 to $65.00/hr. w2
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement scalable AWS infrastructure using services such as S3, IAM, KMS, Lambda, API Gateway, VPC, and EventBridge.
- Build and maintain cloud-native data and application platforms using S3, Glue, Step Functions, Lambda, Kinesis or MSK, and Redshift or Snowflake on AWS.
- Engineer secure networking patterns including VPC architecture, service-to-service communication, and cross-account access.
- Implement encryption, key management, and secure data handling practices across the platform.
- Implement access control models with AWS IAM and role-based access to enforce least privilege.
- Establish platform guardrails using AWS Organizations, Control Tower, and Service Control Policies.
- Enforce configuration baselines, compliance standards, and drift detection across accounts and environments.
- Build observability using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, structured logging, metrics, and tracing.
- Define SLIs, SLOs, monitoring, and automated remediation standards.
- Develop operational runbooks, incident response processes, and reliability improvements.
- Deliver infrastructure-as-code with Terraform or CloudFormation and create reusable modules and templates.
- Integrate CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, security scanning, and deployment workflows.
- Provide tools and frameworks that enable efficient application deployment and operations in AWS.
- Partner with engineering, security, and data teams to improve platform capabilities and cloud adoption.
- Provide advanced technical troubleshooting and Tier-3 support, and lead post-incident reviews.
Experience Requirements:
- 6 to 10+ years in platform, cloud, or infrastructure engineering roles.
- Hands-on expertise with AWS services including S3, IAM, KMS, Lambda, API Gateway, VPC, EventBridge, and CloudWatch.
- Proven experience designing and operating secure AWS infrastructure.
- Strong security fundamentals across identity management, encryption, and network security.
- Proficiency with Terraform or CloudFormation for infrastructure-as-code.
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines and working with Git-based workflows.
- Scripting and automation skills with Python or Bash.
- Implemented monitoring, observability, and operational reliability practices.
- Advanced troubleshooting experience supporting complex production systems.
- Experience with Kubernetes or container platforms (preferred).
- Experience with enterprise identity and federation such as SAML, OAuth, or OIDC (preferred).
- Familiarity with AWS governance services including Control Tower, Organizations, SCPs, and Config (preferred).
- Experience in regulated environments or with SOX, SOC 2, HIPAA, or GDPR (preferred).
- AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or Security Specialty (preferred).
Education Requirements:
- AWS Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or Security Specialty certification (preferred).
Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.
W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
If anyone reaches out to you about an open position connected with Eliassen Group, please ensure that you are working directly with us by confirming the following:
· When you work with Eliassen Group, all email communication will come from an Eliassen.com address, never Gmail, Yahoo, etc.
· Eliassen Group will never ask you for personal information (home address, bank account, or check routing number) until you have worked with someone clearly associated with Eliassen Group.
If you have any indication of fraudulent activity, please contact fraud@eliassen.com.
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