Cloud Platform Engineer
Credence Management Solutions, LLC3 months ago
McLean, VA, USASenior
Base Salary
$100k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with cloud engineers, solutions architects, cybersecurity professionals, and customers to manage, modernize, and secure AWS-based platforms.
- Build and improve reusable cloud infrastructure patterns using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
- Support CI/CD pipelines for automated build, testing, security scanning, deployment, and release workflows.
- Help application and engineering teams onboard workloads to platform services and standardized deployment patterns.
- Deploy and support containerized workloads using Docker, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and AWS Fargate.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure, pipeline, container, networking, permissions, and deployment issues across development, test, and production environments.
- Develop scripts and automation to reduce manual operations and improve consistency, reliability, and delivery speed.
- Maintain platform services for monitoring, logging, access control, configuration management, patching, and operational support.
- Coordinate with cybersecurity and compliance teams to align platform services with security, governance, and customer requirements.
- Research tools and engineering practices that improve platform reliability and developer experience, and document designs, procedures, runbooks, patterns, and processes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.
- Current CompTIA Security+ certification or ability to obtain it within the first 60 days.
- Current AWS certification or ability to obtain it within the first 90 days.
- At least 5 years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, systems administration, infrastructure automation, or a related technical role.
- Hands-on AWS experience with EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Security Groups, RDS, EFS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Systems Manager.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
- Experience supporting CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, or similar platforms.
- Hands-on containerization experience with Docker, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, or AWS Fargate.
- Proficiency with Shell, PowerShell, Python, or JavaScript scripting and automation.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including technical documentation abilities.
- Preferred qualifications include AWS Associate, Specialty, or Professional certifications; Terraform modules and reusable IaC experience; Git workflows and code reviews; YAML and JSON; Ansible; Kubernetes tooling; secure federal or NIST-compliant environments; CloudWatch, Splunk, OpenSearch, Prometheus, or Grafana; AI/ML concepts; Active Directory or LDAP; and RHEL, Linux, or Windows Server administration.
Benefits
- Hybrid workplace arrangement in McLean, United States.
- Full-time position supporting mission-critical federal cloud modernization efforts.
Tech Stack
AnsibleAWSDockerGitGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGrafanaHelmJavaScriptJenkinsKubernetesLinuxPowerShellPrometheusPythonSplunkTerraform
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