Cloud Platform Engineer: AWS, Kubernetes & Automation

Koch; Wichita (KS); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental & vision

Educational assistance

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

KBX Logistics, a Koch company, is seeking a Cloud Engineer to operate, maintain, and improve our AWS-based platform supporting application teams. You will implement infrastructure changes, respond to incidents, and help secure and optimize the cloud environment.

You will collaborate with Software Engineering, DevOps, Security, and IT leadership, using Terraform, Helm, and GitHub Actions, and participate in on-call duties to ensure platform reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and services.
• Experience deploying, managing, or supporting containerized applications in Kubernetes.
• Experience using Terraform, CI/CD automation, and GitOps concepts.
• Scripting experience in Python, PowerShell, or shell.
• Familiarity with cloud security, IAM, monitoring, and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Build and support AWS infrastructure using established designs and change-management practices.
• Collaborate with senior engineers to clarify requirements and technical decisions.
• Maintain, monitor, upgrade, and troubleshoot cloud platform technologies (EKS, Istio, Gloo, Kong, MSK/Kafka, Redis/ElastiCache).
• Use Terraform, Helm, and GitHub Actions to provision infrastructure and deploy platform changes.
• Manage IAM, access, networking, encryption, and secrets; identify automation opportunities and security risks.
• Monitor platform health, respond to alerts, and troubleshoot with application teams.

Skills

AWS

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

DevOps

Scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or information technology

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate

CKA

Terraform Associate

Tools

Terraform

Helm

GitHub Actions

Kubectl

Istio

Gloo

Kong

Redis/ElastiCache

Job description

KBX Logistics, a Koch company, is seeking a Cloud Engineer to operate, maintain, and improve our AWS-based platform supporting application teams. You will implement infrastructure changes, respond to incidents, and help secure and optimize the cloud environment.

You will collaborate with Software Engineering, DevOps, Security, and IT leadership, using Terraform, Helm, and GitHub Actions, and participate in on-call duties to ensure platform reliability.