AWS Cloud Platform Architect & Engineering Lead

BrezQ; California; On-site; USD 180,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

BrezQ is seeking a Cloud Architect to provide technical direction to the Cloud Engineering/Platform Engineering team in Alameda, CA. You will shape platform goals, drive automation, and lead secure cloud design using AWS services across EKS/ECS, IAM, S3, Lambda and IaC tooling.

Responsibilities include designing container platforms, implementing automation via SSM, CI/CD with Terraform/CloudFormation, and mentoring engineers while ensuring governance and security best practices.

Qualifications

• 15 years of overall experience with 8+ years in Cloud/AWS Engineering & Architecture, Platform Engineering and DevOps.
• 7+ years of experience in EKS/ECS, Terraform/IaC, Ansible and reusable modules.
• 7+ years of experience in EC2, ASG, AMI creation, ECR, S3, Lambda, IAM, SSM, Cognito, Route 53, Secrets Manager.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day technical direction to the Cloud Engineering team.
• Define and drive Platform Engineering goals, standards, and best practices.
• Design and implement container platforms using Amazon EKS and ECS; configure Route 53 for domain and DNS management.
• Deploy and configure ECS/ECR and support containerized workloads.
• Design and configure AWS Systems Manager (SSM) for automation.
• Manage EC2, ASG and custom AMIs; integrate security/monitoring agents.
• Work with AWS Control Tower to establish governed environments.
• Implement Cognito for authentication and Secrets Manager for credentials.
• Design advanced S3 configurations with lifecycle and access policies.
• Develop Lambda solutions for automation and metrics collection.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules for provisioning AWS services.
• Use IaC tools to build and manage cloud platforms.
• Apply Well-Architected principles focusing on security, cost, performance, operations.
• Identify toil and drive automation opportunities.
• Partner with client teams to provide cloud direction.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Platform engineering

DevOps

Container orchestration

Automation

Leadership/mentoring

Security best practices

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

EKS/ECS

IAM/S3/Lambda

Job description

BrezQ is seeking a Cloud Architect to provide technical direction to the Cloud Engineering/Platform Engineering team in Alameda, CA. You will shape platform goals, drive automation, and lead secure cloud design using AWS services across EKS/ECS, IAM, S3, Lambda and IaC tooling.

Responsibilities include designing container platforms, implementing automation via SSM, CI/CD with Terraform/CloudFormation, and mentoring engineers while ensuring governance and security best practices.