AWS Platform Engineer / AWS Administrator

Veriipro; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Veriipro is seeking a highly experienced AWS Platform Engineer / AWS Administrator to design, manage, automate, and continuously improve enterprise cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on AWS experience with strong expertise in cloud administration, infrastructure automation, networking, security, platform reliability, and DevOps practices.

This role will ensure AWS environments are secure, scalable, highly available, reliable, and cost-efficient while supporting

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure administration and/or platform engineering.
• Deep hands-on AWS experience in enterprise environments.
• Strong expertise in AWS networking, IAM, security, and infrastructure management.
• Strong experience with Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, and/or ECS.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, or similar languages.
• Hands-on experience with Ansible.
• Experience with AWS Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA).
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline, or similar.
• Strong knowledge of monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Datadog, and Splunk.
• Solid understanding of cloud security, compliance, disaster recovery, high availability, and enterprise governance.
• Strong troubleshooting, incident management, and root-cause analysis skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, configure, and manage AWS infrastructure including EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, RDS, EKS/ECS, and Lambda.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Manage AWS IAM policies, roles, permissions, and access controls following least-privilege principles.
• Design and administer AWS networking components including VPCs, subnets, VPNs, Direct Connect, security groups, and load balancers.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate application and infrastructure build, test, and deployment processes.
• Manage containerized environments using Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, and/or ECS.
• Implement automation and operational tooling using Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
• Manage configuration and infrastructure automation using Ansible.
• Support and administer AWS Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) for workflow orchestration.
• Monitor infrastructure health, performance, availability, and security using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Datadog, Splunk, and similar tools.
• Drive AWS cost optimization through resource right-sizing, usage analysis, reserved capacity planning, and infrastructure efficiency initiatives.
• Design and maintain backup, disaster recovery, high-availability, and business continuity strategies.
• Ensure cloud infrastructure complies with enterprise security, regulatory, governance, and operational standards.
• Lead troubleshooting, incident response, and root-cause analysis for infrastructure and platform issues.
• Identify opportunities for automation, reliability improvements, and operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with development, security, architecture, and operations teams on cloud platform strategy and implementation.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance on AWS infrastructure and platform engineering practices.

Skills

10+ years experience

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

EKS

ECS

Python

Bash

Ansible

MWAA

CI/CD

Jenkins

GitLab CI

CloudWatch

CloudTrail

Datadog

Splunk

Airflow

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

EKS

ECS

MWAA

Job description

We are seeking a highly experiencedAWS Platform Engineer / AWS Administrator to design, manage, automate, and continuously improve enterprise cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on AWS experience with strong expertise in cloud administration, infrastructure automation, networking, security, platform reliability, and DevOps practices.

This role will be responsible for ensuring AWS environments are secure, scalable, highly available, reliable, and cost-efficient while supporting enterprise applications and workloads.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design, provision, configure, and manage AWS infrastructure including EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, RDS, EKS/ECS, and Lambda.

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and/or CloudFormation.

• Manage AWS IAM policies, roles, permissions, and access controls following least-privilege principles.

• Design and administer AWS networking components including VPCs, subnets, VPNs, Direct Connect, security groups, and load balancers.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate application and infrastructure build, test, and deployment processes.

• Manage containerized environments using Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, and/or ECS.

• Implement automation and operational tooling using Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages.

• Manage configuration and infrastructure automation using Ansible.

• Support and administer AWS Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) for workflow orchestration.

• Monitor infrastructure health, performance, availability, and security using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Datadog, Splunk, and similar tools.

• Drive AWS cost optimization through resource right-sizing, usage analysis, reserved capacity planning, and infrastructure efficiency initiatives.

• Design and maintain backup, disaster recovery, high-availability, and business continuity strategies.

• Ensure cloud infrastructure complies with enterprise security, regulatory, governance, and operational standards.

• Lead troubleshooting, incident response, and root-cause analysis for infrastructure and platform issues.

• Identify opportunities for automation, reliability improvements, and operational efficiency.

• Collaborate with development, security, architecture, and operations teams on cloud platform strategy and implementation.

• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance on AWS infrastructure and platform engineering practices.

Required Skills

• 10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure administration and/or platform engineering.

• Deep hands-on experience with AWS in enterprise environments.

• Strong expertise in AWS networking, IAM, security, and infrastructure management.

• Strong experience with Terraform and/or CloudFormation.

• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, and/or ECS.

• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, or similar languages.

• Hands-on experience with Ansible.

• Experience with AWS Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA).

• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline, or similar.

• Strong knowledge of monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Datadog, and Splunk.

• Solid understanding of cloud security, compliance, disaster recovery, high availability, and enterprise governance.

• Strong troubleshooting, incident management, and root-cause analysis skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS certification such as AWS Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator, or DevOps Engineer – Professional.

• Experience with hybrid-cloud or multi-cloud environments.

• Experience supporting large-scale, mission-critical enterprise platforms.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.