Platform Foundations Engineer: AWS Infra & Observability

ECP; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

ECP is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to own production AWS services, automate deployment, and improve observability. You will collaborate with delivery teams to provision environments and ensure security and audit readiness. The role emphasizes on-call responsibilities, self-service tooling, and AI-assisted incident workflows.

You will work primarily with Node.js/TypeScript? Not applicable here; focus on AWS infra and platform engineering practices to keep production reliable and

Qualifications

• Built production AWS infrastructure as code using CloudFormation, Terraform, CDK, or Pulumi.
• Designed networking and IAM: VPCs, cross-account access, data isolation.
• Proficient with containers in production on ECS or Kubernetes, including capacity decisions.
• Implemented security controls: least privilege, credential rotation, patch cadence.
• Automated evidence for SOC2/HIPAA/ISO/PCI audits.
• On-call experience and ability to walk through incidents end-to-end.
• Applied AI in operational workflows for triage, alerts, or runbooks.
• Built observability that helps engineers debug systems while protecting sensitive logs.
• Wrote self-service tooling and runbooks to reduce tickets.

Responsibilities

• Own defined production systems and their infrastructure code.
• Handle patching, upgrades, and capacity planning; automate where possible.
• Ensure security controls and audit readiness for production environments.
• Improve observability with metrics, traces, and logs accessible to delivery teams.
• Collaborate with delivery teams to provision queues, services, or environments ahead of needs.

Skills

AWS Infra as Code

Networking & IAM design

Containers in production

Security hardening

Audit evidence automation

On-call incident handling

AI in operations

Observability for debugging

Self-service & runbooks

Production code in Python/Bash/Go

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

CloudFormation

Terraform

CDK

Pulumi

ECS

Kubernetes

Job description

ECP is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to own production AWS services, automate deployment, and improve observability. You will collaborate with delivery teams to provision environments and ensure security and audit readiness. The role emphasizes on-call responsibilities, self-service tooling, and AI-assisted incident workflows.

You will work primarily with Node.js/TypeScript? Not applicable here; focus on AWS infra and platform engineering practices to keep production reliable and