AWS Cloud Platform Lead: Terraform & CI/CD

Jobtailor; Colorado; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks an experienced AWS/Terraform professional to design and operate secure cloud foundations. You will develop reusable Terraform modules, enable automated account provisioning, and integrate CI/CD workflows across teams.

The role emphasizes identity and access controls, governance, and ongoing platform reliability. The ideal candidate has senior experience in cloud infrastructure, strong collaboration skills, and thrives in a hybrid onsite/remote environment, supporting expansion

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus 12 years of related experience or Master's degree plus 8 years.
• Three or more years of professional experience designing, building, or operating infrastructure in AWS.
• Experience developing, testing, and maintaining infrastructure as code using Terraform.
• Experience implementing and improving AWS identity, access, security, governance, or account‑management capabilities.
• Experience using version control and CI/CD workflows to test, deploy, and manage infrastructure changes.
• Comfortable with a hybrid work arrangement balancing onsite and remote work

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate secure AWS cloud foundations.
• Develop, standardize, and scale reusable Terraform modules.
• Build automated account‑vending capabilities and CI/CD workflows.
• Implement identity, access, tagging, logging, secrets‑management, and configuration‑management controls.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, finance, and compliance teams.
• Resolve risks, onboard cloud services, expand into new regions, and support organizational growth.
• Measure, communicate, and improve platform performance using provisioning time, compliance drift, credential age, security‑ticket resolution, and reliability metrics.

Skills

Collaboration

Problem Solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree + 12 years of related experience

Master's degree + 8 years of related experience

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Infrastructure As Code

Version Control

Cloud Security

Governance

Account Management

Compliance

Automated Account‑Vending

Configuration Management

Job description

Jobtailor seeks an experienced AWS/Terraform professional to design and operate secure cloud foundations. You will develop reusable Terraform modules, enable automated account provisioning, and integrate CI/CD workflows across teams.

The role emphasizes identity and access controls, governance, and ongoing platform reliability. The ideal candidate has senior experience in cloud infrastructure, strong collaboration skills, and thrives in a hybrid onsite/remote environment, supporting expansion