AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

**AWS Cloud Platform Engineer** **Location:** Hybrid – Reston, VA (Onsite 1x/week; local DC/MD/VA candidates only) **Company Overview** Glint Tech Solutions is a women-owned global staffing and IT recruiting firm connecting top technical talent with leading enterprise clients across the United States. **Project Description** Our client, a leading enterprise healthcare organization, is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer to drive cloud-native transformation, platform engineering, and automation initiatives within a large-scale AWS environment. This is a hands-on SME-level role requiring deep expertise in EKS-based provisioning, infrastructure as code, and SRE principles. Note: Video interview followed by an in-person F2F interview is required. **Key Responsibilities** - Communicate architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies, balancing short-term trade-offs against long-term commitments and costs - Drive end-to-end lifecycle of services from inception and design through deployment and operations - Establish cloud-native automation capabilities to improve developer experience - Support system design consulting, platform/framework development, capacity planning, and launch reviews - Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and engage directly with internal customers - Lead migration of legacy applications to microservices architecture hosted on AWS - Leverage cloud-native components including containers, immutable infrastructure, microservices, and service mesh to build highly available and fault-tolerant systems - Automate end-to-end patching, upgrades, and maintenance of the AWS cloud ecosystem - Monitor and manage stability, availability, and performance across enterprise systems (systems, network, storage, security) - Make data-driven recommendations to improve software delivery efficiency - Mentor peers and socialize engineering solutions across teams **Mandatory Skills** - Minimum 10 years of overall IT experience, with at least 5 years in AWS Cloud - SME-level expertise in platform engineering and administration, with hands-on EKS-based provisioning via automation - Minimum one active AWS certification required - Strong hands-on knowledge of AWS services: VPC, Networking, Direct Connect, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups, EC2, S3, IAM, ELBs, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EKS - Hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible playbooks, and Python (Boto3/Lambda functions) - Experience with AWS CloudFormation and CDK - Proficiency in Linux Bash scripting and Linux system administration - 3+ years with Kubernetes/containerization and DevOps toolchain (Jenkins, Ansible, Artifactory, Bitbucket, etc.) - Solid CI/CD pipeline experience and IaC/automated provisioning practices - Experience with SRE principles and transformation initiatives - Strong leadership experience driving cloud transformation programs - Basic AI exposure or experience required **Nice-to-Have Skills** - Hands-on production experience with Amazon EKS - Familiarity with Git/repo, Crucible, and other DevOps tooling - Experience with enterprise cloud migration and modernization efforts