Hybrid Senior AWS Foundations Platform Engineer

Genworth; Richmond (VA); Hybrid; USD 97,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401(k) savings plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Genworth is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer – AWS Foundations to join our Cloud Center of Excellence. This role designs, builds, and operates foundational AWS services, enabling secure, scalable delivery across Genworth’s CareScout platforms.

Based in Richmond or Lynchburg, VA with a hybrid schedule (in-office Tue-Thu). You’ll work with Cloud Architects, Security, and development teams to implement platform-as-a-product capabilities and standard governance across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/CE or equivalent
• 5–8+ years of experience in cloud/infra/platform engineering
• Strong experience with AWS and cloud platform operations
• Experience designing and supporting AWS networking services (VPCs, Transit Gateway, Route 53, Direct Connect, PrivateLink, security groups)
• Experience with IAM, Identity Center (SSO), SCPs, and governance controls
• Hands-on Terraform experience (modules and resources)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Git workflows
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and EKS
• Ability to translate architectural requirements into platform implementation
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support foundational AWS platform services across the enterprise
• Build and maintain AWS landing zones, account structures, resource organization standards, and governance guardrails
• Oversee enterprise cloud foundations including networking, identity, policy, security controls, governance guardrails, observability, and shared platform services
• Engineer and support AWS networking services including VPCs, Transit Gateway, Route 53, PrivateLink, security groups, and network segmentation
• Implement and maintain AWS identity and access management solutions leveraging IAM, Identity Center (SSO), RBAC, and security best practices
• Develop and maintain secure and repeatable Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform and platform automation pipelines
• Partner with Cloud Architecture and Security teams to implement enterprise cloud standards and reference architectures
• Support hybrid cloud and on-premises integration requirements including connectivity, authentication, and service access patterns
• Troubleshoot complex AWS platform issues involving networking, identity, security, infrastructure automation, and service integration
• Contribute to platform observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational readiness capabilities
• Partner with Service Operations teams to conduct root cause analysis and improve platform reliability and supportability
• Assist application and development teams in the efficient, secure, and cost-effective consumption of AWS services
• Create and maintain technical documentation, implementation standards, architecture patterns, and operational runbooks
• Support platform modernization initiatives and evaluate new AWS capabilities, introducing them to our ecosystem rapidly and with baked in governance

Skills

Customer-first attitude

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Team collaboration

Production support

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience

Tools

Terraform

Git

Kubernetes

EKS

CI/CD

Job description

Genworth is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer – AWS Foundations to join our Cloud Center of Excellence. This role designs, builds, and operates foundational AWS services, enabling secure, scalable delivery across Genworth’s CareScout platforms.

Based in Richmond or Lynchburg, VA with a hybrid schedule (in-office Tue-Thu). You’ll work with Cloud Architects, Security, and development teams to implement platform-as-a-product capabilities and standard governance across the enterprise.