AWS Cloud Platform Engineer: Build Secure, Scalable IaC

Appnovation; Austin (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Appnovation is hiring AWS Cloud Platform Engineers to build the platform foundation, including accounts, networking, IAM, and IaC modules. You’ll own pipelines, container builds, and agent deployments, collaborating across client teams and internal engineers.

The role focuses on secure, scalable cloud infrastructure with a strong emphasis on automation, governance, and repeatable deployment patterns within regulated environments.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of cloud, platform or DevOps engineering experience with 4+ years building production AWS environments.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code skills with Terraform and/or AWS CDK/CloudFormation, including reusable modules.
• Deep understanding of AWS IAM, with cross-account access and service control policies.
• Solid AWS networking knowledge: VPC design, routing, endpoints, PrivateLink, Transit Gateway.

Responsibilities

• Design and stand up multi-account AWS structure with guardrails and policies.
• Build secure VPCs and private connectivity for agent workloads.
• Define IAM roles and least-privilege access for platform services and pipelines.
• Create and maintain reusable IaC modules for wide adoption by teams.
• Design and own CI/CD pipelines to build, test, scan, and publish agent containers.

Skills

Terraform

AWS IAM

Networking

CI/CD

Containers

Secrets Manager

Policy as Code

Tools

AWS CDK

GitHub Actions

CodePipeline

Amazon ECR

Job description

Appnovation is hiring AWS Cloud Platform Engineers to build the platform foundation, including accounts, networking, IAM, and IaC modules. You’ll own pipelines, container builds, and agent deployments, collaborating across client teams and internal engineers.

The role focuses on secure, scalable cloud infrastructure with a strong emphasis on automation, governance, and repeatable deployment patterns within regulated environments.