Remote Cloud Platform Engineer – Terraform & AWS

Avala; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health, dental, and vision coverage

FSA

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Avala is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to own and evolve the cloud platform supporting data-intensive products. You will define infrastructure, deploy and monitor services across AWS, ensuring reliability, security, and cost efficiency.

You will build Terraform modules, run CI/CD for server and serverless workloads, scale ECS Fargate and Aurora clusters, and strengthen observability with CloudWatch and custom dashboards while advancing disaster recovery and security practices.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering.
• Strong Terraform skills, including modules, state management, and Cloud workflows.
• Deep AWS knowledge (ECS, RDS/Aurora, S3, CloudFront, IAM, VPC).
• Production experience with Docker and container orchestration.
• Solid understanding of networking, TLS, DNS, and CDN configuration.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Terraform infrastructure across AWS environments.
• Operate and scale ECS Fargate services, Aurora PostgreSQL, and Redis.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for server, Flutter web, and serverless deployments.
• Set up monitoring, alerting, and observability with CloudWatch and dashboards.
• Plan disaster recovery, backups, security enhancements, and cost management.

Skills

Infrastructure as code

Cloud architecture

Observability

Cost optimization

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Docker

ECS/Fargate

Aurora PostgreSQL

CloudWatch

Job description

Avala is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to own and evolve the cloud platform supporting data-intensive products. You will define infrastructure, deploy and monitor services across AWS, ensuring reliability, security, and cost efficiency.

You will build Terraform modules, run CI/CD for server and serverless workloads, scale ECS Fargate and Aurora clusters, and strengthen observability with CloudWatch and custom dashboards while advancing disaster recovery and security practices.