Lead Cloud Platform Engineer — AWS, Terraform, SRE

Quantum Technologies. LLC; San Ramon (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Quantum Technologies. LLC is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to design and build cloud infrastructure at scale on AWS. You will architect secure, highly available systems and drive IaC practices using Terraform and CloudFormation.

Responsibilities include optimizing costs, guiding cross-functional teams, and mentoring engineers. Strong Kubernetes and serverless experience preferred; remote options may apply.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on AWS cloud architecture and engineering.
• Deep knowledge of AWS networking (VPC, subnets, route tables, NAT/IGW, SGs, NACLs).
• Expertise in Terraform and IaC tooling.
• Solid understanding of Docker and Kubernetes (preferably EKS).
• Experience with IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, security controls, and cloud governance.
• Experience with Git-based version control.
• Knowledge of cloud monitoring, logging, and observability.
• Familiarity with AWS Well-Architected Framework.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of secure, scalable AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Design and manage AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, EKS/ECS, Lambda, CloudFront, Route 53, ELB, CloudWatch, and more.
• Develop and maintain IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
• Establish and enforce cloud security, governance, networking, and compliance best practices.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, performance, and production issues.
• Collaborate with application, security, architecture, and platform teams.
• Conduct technical reviews and establish cloud engineering standards and best practices.
• Mentor and guide junior and senior engineers and provide technical leadership.
• Identify opportunities for cost optimization and improve AWS resource utilization.

Skills

Cloud architecture

DevOps mindset

Troubleshooting

Security and compliance

Leadership and mentoring

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes (EKS)

AWS IAM

Secrets Manager

VPC networking

Git

Monitoring & observability

Job description

Quantum Technologies. LLC is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to design and build cloud infrastructure at scale on AWS. You will architect secure, highly available systems and drive IaC practices using Terraform and CloudFormation.

Responsibilities include optimizing costs, guiding cross-functional teams, and mentoring engineers. Strong Kubernetes and serverless experience preferred; remote options may apply.