Cloud Platform Engineer

Purpose

The Cloud Platform Engineer supports the design, implementation, and maintenance of secure, reliable, and scalable cloud infrastructure that powers business-critical applications. This role focuses on day-to-day platform operations, infrastructure automation, monitoring, deployment workflows, and supporting cloud-native and traditional workloads.

Working under the guidance of senior engineers and cloud leadership, the Cloud Platform Engineer helps build and enhance infrastructure using modern cloud tooling, Infrastructure-as-Code, container technologies, and CI/CD automation. The engineer contributes to platform reliability, troubleshooting, and continuous improvements across the organization's AWS environment.

This position is ideal for a cloud engineering professional who has foundational experience and is ready to develop deeper expertise in platform engineering, automation, Kubernetes, and AWS cloud operations.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field preferred.
• Equivalent professional experience in cloud engineering, systems engineering, or DevOps will be considered.

Years of Experience in Related Field

• 2-5 years of experience in Cloud Engineering, Systems Engineering, DevOps, or related fields.
• Hands-on experience supporting cloud infrastructure or application environments.
• Exposure to production systems and structured operational processes.

Credentials or Certifications

• Preferred
• AWS Cloud Practitioner
• AWS Solutions Architect - Associate (plus)
• Terraform Associate (plus)
• Kubernetes fundamentals or introductory certifications (plus)

Specialized Knowledge, Skills and Abilities and/or Competencies

Required

• Understanding of cloud architecture principles across compute, networking, storage, identity, and security
• Practical experience with AWS services including RDS, EKS, Route 53, VPC, Transit Gateway, EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, Systems Manager
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• Experience working with CI/CD workflows using version-controlled pipeline definitions (pipeline-as-code, automated validation, runner-based execution)
• Basic to intermediate scripting skills (Bash, Python, or similar)
• Experience administering Linux systems and exposure to Windows Server administration
• General understanding of monitoring, logging, dashboards, metrics, and alerting
• Experience working with relational databases including PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Microsoft SQL Server
• Ability to troubleshoot issues across application, network, and infrastructure layers
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate within technical teams

Preferred

• Experience supporting containerized applications or Kubernetes workloads, preferably Amazon EKS
• Experience with multi-account AWS environments using AWS Organizations or AWS Control Tower
• Experience implementing security best practices and working with IAM access patterns
• Exposure to compliance-driven or regulated environments such as HIPAA, SOC 2, or HITRUST
• Experience assisting developers with environment-related code issues (Python, Node.js, PHP, etc.)

Job Duties

• Infrastructure Operations & Support: Assist in deploying, managing, and supporting cloud infrastructure and container workloads across AWS environments.
• Automation & IaC: Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code templates (Terraform or CloudFormation) with guidance from senior team members.
• CI/CD Pipeline Support: Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD workflows using pipeline-as-code practices and automated testing/validation.
• Monitoring & Observability: Help maintain monitoring, logging, dashboards, and alerting frameworks that support reliability and incident response.
• Database & Application Support: Support operational health and maintenance of PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server databases. Assist development teams with environment-level debugging.
• Security & Compliance: Implement least-privilege configurations and follow organizational cloud security practices.
• Documentation: Create and update runbooks, infrastructure documentation, and technical procedures.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify efficiencies, automation opportunities, and improvements that increase platform reliability and team effectiveness.
• This position may have access to PHI on a limited basis; access should always be restricted to the minimum necessary to complete assigned tasks. The employee must comply with all applicable Privacy and Security policies.
• Anticipated travel and/or use personal vehicle for business purposes.
• Very limited possible travel for retreats/in person meetings