Lead AWS Cloud Platform Engineer - Guardrails & IaC

System One; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 309,960,000 - 323,736,000; Part time

Job summary

System One is seeking a Lead AWS Cloud Platform Engineer to drive hands-on delivery across its AWS footprint, focusing on platform engineering, security guardrails, automation, reliability, and cloud-native modernization.

You will partner with cloud engineers and technology teams to design and operate scalable, secure, production-grade AWS platforms, mentor engineers, and support enterprise cloud transformation with enhanced developer experiences through automation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, or related field (In lieu of a degree: additional relevant experience may be considered).
• 10+ years of IT/systems engineering experience, including hands-on engineering.
• 5+ years of AWS-focused cloud engineering, automation, and administration.
• AWS certification required (at least one).
• Strong experience with AWS core services: Networking (VPC, subnets, security groups/NACLs, Direct Connect), EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, EKS, Lambda.
• Infra as Code/automation (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, Ansible) with Python scripting.
• CI/CD and release automation patterns and tools.
• Linux administration + Bash scripting.
• Strong communication skills to lead/drive technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and improve AWS platform components with focus on security, stability, and scalability.
• Own and improve the service lifecycle (design, build, deploy & operate).
• Build automation using cloud-native services to improve developer experience and delivery speed.
• Support cloud transformation and migration of legacy applications (including microservices).
• Apply modern cloud-native patterns: containers, immutable infrastructure, service mesh, fault-tolerant design.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code and provision-with-code practices.
• Strengthen observability, performance, and audit readiness across environments.
• Troubleshoot incidents and perform root cause analysis; update SOPs.
• Mentor team members and lead engineering best practices.

Skills

AWS platform engineering

Automation

Linux administration

Bash scripting

Leadership in tech decisions

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS or related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CDK

Ansible

Job description

System One is seeking a Lead AWS Cloud Platform Engineer to drive hands-on delivery across its AWS footprint, focusing on platform engineering, security guardrails, automation, reliability, and cloud-native modernization.

You will partner with cloud engineers and technology teams to design and operate scalable, secure, production-grade AWS platforms, mentor engineers, and support enterprise cloud transformation with enhanced developer experiences through automation.