Cloud Platform Engineer - AWS & Kubernetes

Koch; Green Bay (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

medical

dental

vision

flexible spending and health savings

life insurance

ADD

disability

retirement

paid vacation/time off

educational assistance

infertility assistance

paid parental leave

adoption assistance

Job summary

KBX Logistics, a Koch company, seeks a Cloud Engineer to operate, maintain, and improve our AWS-based platform supporting application teams. You will work with senior engineers, implement infrastructure changes with Terraform and GitHub Actions, and help keep our cloud environment secure, reliable, and scalable.

This entry-level to early-career role emphasizes strong fundamentals, collaboration, and steady delivery.

Qualifications

• Entry-level candidates welcome with AWS/cloud infra exposure
• Experience applying core AWS concepts and services such as compute, networking, storage, IAM, security groups, subnets, routing, and monitoring
• Experience deploying, managing, or supporting containerized applications in Kubernetes (EKS)
• Scripting experience in Python/PowerShell/shell
• Experience applying cloud security, IAM, monitoring, incident response, and change-management best practices
• Ability to use AI-assisted tools for learning, scripting, documentation, troubleshooting, and operational workflows

Responsibilities

• Build and support AWS infrastructure using established designs and security controls
• Collaborate with senior engineers to clarify requirements and decisions
• Maintain and troubleshoot cloud platform technologies (EKS, Istio, Kong, Redis/ElastiCache)
• Use Terraform, Helm, and GitHub Actions to provision infrastructure and deploy changes
• Manage IAM, networking, encryption and secrets according to standards
• Monitor platform health, respond to alerts, and troubleshoot with application teams
• Support cost reporting, tagging, and cost-saving changes
• Maintain runbooks, logs, and troubleshooting guides; share lessons
• Build AWS/cloud platform skills through hands-on work and training
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response

Skills

AWS fundamentals

Kubernetes

Python scripting

Security awareness

AI-assisted tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT

Tools

Terraform

Helm

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

Istio

Gloo/Kong ingress

Cloudflare

Job description

KBX Logistics, a Koch company, seeks a Cloud Engineer to operate, maintain, and improve our AWS-based platform supporting application teams. You will work with senior engineers, implement infrastructure changes with Terraform and GitHub Actions, and help keep our cloud environment secure, reliable, and scalable.

This entry-level to early-career role emphasizes strong fundamentals, collaboration, and steady delivery.