Lead Cloud Platform Engineer — Scale AWS with Terraform

Robotics Technologies LLC; San Ramon (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Robotics Technologies LLC is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to design and build scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS. You’ll lead IaC development with Terraform, manage EKS/ECS and serverless components, and ensure robust security and governance across the environment.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product and security teams, and drive cost optimization while maintaining high availability and performance at scale in a California-based environment.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on AWS cloud architecture and engineering.
• Deep knowledge of VPCs, subnets, NAT, security groups and Transit Gateway.
• Proficient with Terraform/IaC and CloudFormation.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes (preferably EKS).
• Familiar with IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager and cloud governance.
• Experience with Git version control and observability tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of secure, scalable AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Manage AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, EKS/ECS, Lambda, CloudFront, Route 53, ELB, CloudWatch.
• Develop and maintain IaC using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Enforce cloud security, governance, networking and compliance best practices.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, performance and production issues.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across teams.
• Identify opportunities for cost optimization and improve AWS resource utilization.

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

CloudWatch

IAM & security

VPC & networking

Job description

Robotics Technologies LLC is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to design and build scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS. You’ll lead IaC development with Terraform, manage EKS/ECS and serverless components, and ensure robust security and governance across the environment.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product and security teams, and drive cost optimization while maintaining high availability and performance at scale in a California-based environment.