Lead Cloud Platform Engineer - AWS, Kubernetes, IaC

Devopsroles; Maryland; Hybrid; USD 215,000 - 238,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) matching

Educational reimbursement

PTO and holidays

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Tax-saving options

Disability and life insurance

Pet insurance

Job summary

Devopsroles in the United States (Maryland) seeks an experienced Senior Cloud SWE to design, deploy, and manage secure cloud infrastructure. You will implement IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation, build modular components, and optimize cost while ensuring high availability and robust monitoring.

A TS/SCI clearance is highly valued for this role. The ideal candidate has 14+ years of SWE experience, strong Java/React development, and extensive AWS/Kubernetes expertise across auditing, security,

Qualifications

• Experience provisioning, configuring, and managing cloud infrastructure and services.
• Experience designing and implementing secure, scalable cloud architectures.
• Experience developing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, etc.
• Knowledge of containers and platform workloads (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Development experience with Java and React.
• Experience configuring monitoring, logging, and alerting using CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, etc. and responding to incidents.
• Experience implementing and testing backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability strategies.
• Experience managing secrets and key management with tools such as KMS/KeyVault/Secret Manager, certificates, and rotation policies.
• Experience optimizing cloud cost and performance (e.g., tagging, budgets, rightsizing, autoscaling) and producing usage/cost reports.
• Experience troubleshooting cloud infrastructure issues across networking (DNS, routing, VPN), security, and service limits.
• Experience documenting architectures, runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Experience with Linux OS

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure (e.g., modernization, migration, roadmaps) with governance and best practices.
• Build reusable modules (e.g., Helm Charts, Terraform) and enforce IaC standards.
• Monitor health and performance using logging/alerting; identify issues and improve efficiency.
• Develop recovery strategies (backup, high availability) and cost optimization.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives to enhance system capabilities.
• Contribute to runbooks, architectures, and operational procedures; enable knowledge transfer.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and recommend enhancements.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

Docker

Java

React

Monitoring

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK/OpenSearch

Security

Disaster recovery

Cost optimization

Networking

Linux

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Docker

Kubernetes

EKS/AKS/GKE

Job description

Devopsroles in the United States (Maryland) seeks an experienced Senior Cloud SWE to design, deploy, and manage secure cloud infrastructure. You will implement IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation, build modular components, and optimize cost while ensuring high availability and robust monitoring.

A TS/SCI clearance is highly valued for this role. The ideal candidate has 14+ years of SWE experience, strong Java/React development, and extensive AWS/Kubernetes expertise across auditing, security,