AWS Platform Engineer: Cloud Automation & Reliability

axiomspace; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Axiom Space seeks a bold Platform Engineer (AWS Cloud) to design, build, and operate our AWS-first cloud infrastructure. You will drive automation, infrastructure-as-code, and platform reliability, enabling internal teams to ship faster and safer while maintaining Azure awareness for cross-platform workloads.

The role requires deep hands-on experience with AWS services, IaC tooling (Terraform or CloudFormation), CI/CD pipelines, and security best practices.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating production workloads on AWS.
• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering or related field, plus 4+ years in engineering.
• Ability to problem-solve in fast-moving environments and communicate well.

Responsibilities

• Designs, builds, and maintains infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or CloudFormation) for AWS GovCloud environments.
• Escalation point for AWS platform architecture and complex technical issues.
• Builds and maintains CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins).
• Manages AWS environment, accounts, networking, compute, and core services (EC2, S3).
• Maintains container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS) for internal workloads.
• Implements IAM and SSO/SAML/SCIM integrations with least-privilege access.
• Monitors, logs, and observability (CloudWatch) and DR/BCP automation.
• Develops internal tooling for safe, automated access to AWS platform.

Skills

AWS

Automation

CI/CD

Security

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering / related

4+ years of AWS production workloads experience

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

EC2

S3

IAM

Job description

Axiom Space seeks a bold Platform Engineer (AWS Cloud) to design, build, and operate our AWS-first cloud infrastructure. You will drive automation, infrastructure-as-code, and platform reliability, enabling internal teams to ship faster and safer while maintaining Azure awareness for cross-platform workloads.

The role requires deep hands-on experience with AWS services, IaC tooling (Terraform or CloudFormation), CI/CD pipelines, and security best practices.