Cloud Platform Engineer: Secure AWS & CI/CD

Credence; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Credence is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to support cloud modernization efforts for DoW customers. The role focuses on building, operating, and improving reusable cloud platform capabilities using AWS, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and containerization.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience supporting secure cloud environments, developing repeatable infrastructure patterns, and helping engineering teams deliver workloads efficiently.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in cloud/platform engineering, DevOps, or related roles.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Current AWS certification or ability to obtain within a reasonable timeframe.
• Current/able to obtain CompTIA Security+ within 60 days.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Cloud Engineers, Solutions Architects, Cybersecurity Professionals, and customer teams to manage, modernize, and secure AWS-based platforms.
• Build, maintain, and improve reusable cloud infrastructure patterns using IaC tools such as Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
• Support development and improvement of CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, security scan, deployment, and release workflows.
• Assist application and engineering teams with onboarding workloads to platform services and standardized deployment patterns.
• Support containerized workload deployments using Docker, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and AWS Fargate.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, pipeline, container, networking, permissions, and deployment issues across environments.
• Develop scripts and automation to reduce manual operational tasks and improve reliability and delivery speed.
• Help maintain platform services related to monitoring, logging, access control, configuration management, patching, and operational support.
• Work with cybersecurity and compliance teams to ensure platform services align with security requirements.
• Research, evaluate, and recommend new tools and practices that improve platform reliability and developer experience.
• Document technical designs, deployment procedures, runbooks, reusable patterns, and operational processes.

Job description

Credence is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to support cloud modernization efforts for DoW customers. The role focuses on building, operating, and improving reusable cloud platform capabilities using AWS, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and containerization.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience supporting secure cloud environments, developing repeatable infrastructure patterns, and helping engineering teams deliver workloads efficiently.