Remote AWS Platform Architect – Terraform & EKS Lead

Select Source Solutions; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Select Source Solutions is seeking a remote Lead AWS Platform Architect to provide senior technical leadership for a mission-critical cloud platform. The role emphasizes hands-on work with AWS, EKS, Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD, security, and federal cloud compliance, with infrastructure managed via code and deployment pipelines.

You will own architecture across environments, guide secure multi-account landing zones, and mentor engineers while driving security controls and automated deployment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of cloud infra, platform engineering, or DevOps leadership experience.
• 5+ years hands-on AWS experience and production ownership.
• Deep Terraform expertise with reusable modules and remote state management.
• Production-scale EKS/Kubernetes experience.
• GitOps experience with Argo CD or Flux.
• CI/CD design with GitLab CI/CD preferred.
• DevSecOps exposure with automated security scanning and policy-as-code.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead AWS platform architecture, engineering, security, and automation.
• Advance Terraform across multi-environment/multi-account AWS infra.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules and manage remote state and drift.
• Reconcile existing resources with Infrastructure as Code.
• Design, operate, and improve production EKS environments.
• Implement GitOps deployment models and CI/CD pipelines.
• Apply automated security controls and policy-as-code.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Security mindset

DevSecOps

Tools

Terraform

Argo CD

Flux

GitLab CI/CD

Kubernetes

Docker

CloudWatch

Job description

Select Source Solutions is seeking a remote Lead AWS Platform Architect to provide senior technical leadership for a mission-critical cloud platform. The role emphasizes hands-on work with AWS, EKS, Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD, security, and federal cloud compliance, with infrastructure managed via code and deployment pipelines.

You will own architecture across environments, guide secure multi-account landing zones, and mentor engineers while driving security controls and automated deployment.