Cloud Platform Engineer: AWS Infra & Automation

COGENT Infotech

Washington (District of Columbia)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Cogent Infotech, a Washington, DC based technology solutions provider, seeks a Cloud Engineer to support the Enterprise Data Platform hosted on AWS GovCloud. You will work with senior platform engineers to provision and maintain cloud infrastructure, automate repeatable platform operations, monitor platform health, and ensure secure delivery of data, analytics, and AI/ML workloads.

The role emphasizes hands-on provisioning with IaC using Terraform and CloudFormation, developing CI/CD pipelines

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
Hands-on experience provisioning AWS infrastructure using IaC tools.
Experience developing or maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably using GitLab CI/CD.
Familiarity with Terraform, CloudFormation or similar tooling.
Knowledge of Kubernetes concepts and Amazon EKS administration.
AWS certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

Provision, configure, and maintain AWS infrastructure components supporting EDP environments.
Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code to enable repeatable deployments.
Support CI/CD pipelines used to deploy infrastructure and platform configurations.
Maintain source-controlled infrastructure code and configuration using Git-based repositories.
Assist with cloud networking components including VPCs, subnets, and security groups.
Monitor platform health using AWS monitoring and logging capabilities.
Troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment, connectivity, permissions, and platform issues.
Provide documentation for configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting steps.