Senior AWS Cloud Engineer - Microservices (Remote)

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a senior cloud platform engineer to lead design and delivery of scalable, secure AWS-based systems. You will guide event-driven architectures, Kafka/MSK, Kubernetes, and CI/CD practices, partnering with cybersecurity and operations to meet federal standards and production readiness.

This remote, full-time role requires deep expertise in high availability, observability, Zero Trust, and cost efficiency, with a track record of steering large-scale

Qualifications

• 10–12 years of cloud engineering or related roles in enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Serve as principal technical authority for AWS cloud engineering and platform reliability.
• Define target cloud architecture, standards, and implementation roadmap for mission-critical capabilities.
• Architect and guide delivery of cloud-native microservices supporting appointment, scheduling, and workflow functions.
• Lead deployment and operation of Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS-native workloads with scalability and security.

Skills

AWS cloud engineering

Kafka / AWS MSK

Event-driven architectures

Distributed microservices

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Security-by-design / Zero Trust

Observability (Prometheus Grafana)

Cost optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Jenkins

Bitbucket

Packer

Prometheus

Grafana

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a senior cloud platform engineer to lead design and delivery of scalable, secure AWS-based systems. You will guide event-driven architectures, Kafka/MSK, Kubernetes, and CI/CD practices, partnering with cybersecurity and operations to meet federal standards and production readiness.

This remote, full-time role requires deep expertise in high availability, observability, Zero Trust, and cost efficiency, with a track record of steering large-scale