AWS Platform Engineer | DevSecOps & CI/CD Automation

Socket.dev; Tysons (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev is seeking a Platform Engineer / DevSecOps Engineer to advance our GrantSolutions platform modernization. You will shape AWS‑based platform patterns, secure pipelines, and automation to enable multiple teams and vendors while maintaining legacy integration during transition.

Responsibilities include cloud platform engineering, CI/CD, IaC, security integration, observability, and production readiness in an iterative environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum of five (5) years in platform engineering, DevSecOps, cloud engineering, or related roles.
• Hands-on AWS experience (ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, IAM, Systems Manager).
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
• IaC experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar.
• DevSecOps practices including automated testing, vulnerability scanning, and secure delivery.
• Security controls integrated into pipelines (static analysis, dependency scanning, container scanning, etc.).
• AWS identity, networking, logging, encryption, and least-privilege principles.
• Containerization with Docker and orchestration (ECS/EKS/Kubernetes).
• Experience deploying, configuring environments, release automation, and production support.
• Observability through monitoring dashboards, logging, and tracing.
• Linux admin, scripting in Python or Bash.
• Excellent collaboration with engineers, architects, security teams, and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, secure, and operate AWS cloud platform capabilities for large-scale modernization.
• Implement secure CI/CD pipelines with automated gates and release automation.
• Develop and maintain IaC for repeatable environment provisioning.
• Support cloud-native delivery patterns and observability across platforms.
• Standardize reusable pipeline templates and environment configurations.
• Embed security early in the SDLC and automate compliance evidence.
• Establish production readiness and disaster recovery practices.
• Collaborate with architects, security teams, vendors, and Federal stakeholders.

Skills

DevSecOps

Cloud engineering

CI/CD

Automation

Containerization

IaC

Security practices

Observability

SRE concepts

Python/Bash

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

ECS

EKS

Lambda

S3

RDS

DynamoDB

CloudWatch

IAM

Systems Manager

Job description

Socket.dev is seeking a Platform Engineer / DevSecOps Engineer to advance our GrantSolutions platform modernization. You will shape AWS‑based platform patterns, secure pipelines, and automation to enable multiple teams and vendors while maintaining legacy integration during transition.

Responsibilities include cloud platform engineering, CI/CD, IaC, security integration, observability, and production readiness in an iterative environment.