Platform Engineer, AWS Cloud & CI/CD Automation

Front Door Defense; Houston, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Axiom Space seeks a Platform Engineer (AWS Cloud) to design, build, and operate an AWS-first cloud platform. You will drive IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and platform reliability while supporting Azure for occasional cross-platform workloads.

Responsibilities include implementing monitoring, security, disaster recovery, and self-service tooling to empower engineering teams. Strong automation and collaboration across teams are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating production workloads on AWS
• Bachelor's degree with 4+ years of relevant experience or equivalent
• Ability to work in fast-moving environments and solve problems proactively

Responsibilities

• Designs, builds, and maintains infrastructure-as-code for AWS GovCloud environments using Terraform or CloudFormation
• Leads as escalation point for platform architecture and technical issues
• Builds and maintains CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) for internal teams
• Manages AWS environment including accounts, VPC, compute, and core services
• Maintains container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS) for internal workloads
• Implements IAM and security controls with least privilege across the platform
• Implements monitoring (CloudWatch) and drive incident root cause analysis
• Develops disaster recovery and business continuity plans for cloud environments
• Develops internal tooling and self-service capabilities for engineering teams
• Supports cross-platform workloads with Azure/Microsoft 365 familiarity
• Communicates progress to stakeholders and supports agile project management

Skills

AWS administration

Terraform/CloudFormation

CI/CD

Docker/Kubernetes

IAM & security

Azure familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering / Engineering Science / Engineering Management

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes (EKS)

Job description

Axiom Space seeks a Platform Engineer (AWS Cloud) to design, build, and operate an AWS-first cloud platform. You will drive IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and platform reliability while supporting Azure for occasional cross-platform workloads.

Responsibilities include implementing monitoring, security, disaster recovery, and self-service tooling to empower engineering teams. Strong automation and collaboration across teams are essential.