Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Job Title: Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Duration: Long-term Contract

Location: LA, CA (Hybrid)

Overview
 

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure. Focus on platform enablement, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, event-driven streaming, and operational excellence across multi-account AWS environments — empowering engineering teams through self-service tooling and reliable, well-governed cloud foundations.

Key Responsibilities
 

·        Design and operate scalable, highly available, multi-account cloud infrastructure (AWS)

·        Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code modules and standards using Terraform

·        Develop reusable platform patterns, landing zones, and golden paths for engineering teams

·        Optimize and operate CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Harness)

·        Enable developer self-service and reduce manual intervention through automation

·        Manage Kubernetes platforms (EKS) — networking, scaling, upgrades, and workload onboarding

·        Operate and support Kafka-based event streaming platforms — topics, schemas, connectors, and clusterxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxreliability
 

·        Build and integrate REST APIs and self-service tooling to streamline platform workflows

·        Implement cloud security and governance (IAM, OAuth/OIDC, OKTA, SSL/TLS, secrets management)

·        Drive cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, and FinOps practices

·        Implement observability — metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and SLOs

·        Lead incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis across platform and runtime systems

·        Partner with application teams to troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment, and runtime issues

·        Drive continuous improvement using operational insights and user feedback

·        Enhance documentation, runbooks, and platform usability
 

Technical Skills

·        Cloud: AWS (EKS, EC2, VPC/Networking, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda)

·        IaC: Terraform (modules, state management, policy-as-code)

·        CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Harness

·        APIs & Integration: REST APIs (design, development, integration), Async APIs

·        Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS)

·        Event Streaming: Kafka, Confluent (topics, schemas, Kafka Connect, cluster linking)

·        Monitoring/Observability: Datadog, CloudWatch

·        Security: OAuth, OIDC, OKTA, SSL/TLS, IAM, secrets management

·        Programming/Scripting: Java/Python
 

Key Competencies
 

• ·        Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving across distributed systems
• ·        Ability to translate operational issues into durable platform improvements
• ·        Systems-thinking approach to reliability, security, and cost
• ·        Effective collaboration and technical mentorship across engineering teams 
   

Must Have & Desired Skills:  Must Have:
• Cloud: AWS (EKS, EC2, VPC/Networking, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda)
• IaC: Terraform (modules, state management, policy-as-code)
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Harness
• APIs & Integration: REST APIs (design, development, integration), Async APIs
• Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS)
• Security: OAuth, OIDC, OKTA, SSL/TLS, IAM, secrets management

Desired:
• Event Streaming: Kafka, Confluent (topics, schemas, Kafka Connect, cluster linking)
• Monitoring/Observability: Datadog, CloudWatch
• Programming/Scripting: Java/Python