Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

Synergyassure Inc; Irvine (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Synergyassure Inc. in Irvine, CA is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure across multi-account AWS environments. The role emphasizes platform enablement, automation, CI/CD, streaming, and governance.

You will empower engineering teams with self-service tooling, ensure reliability, cost efficiency, and strong security, while leading incident response and improvement initiatives across runtimes and platforms.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of cloud platform engineering experience.
• Deep knowledge of multi-account AWS environments.
• Experience with IaC, Terraform.
• Experience with CI/CD and GitHub Actions.
• Experience with Kubernetes (EKS) and Kafka streaming.
• Security and governance IAM, OAuth/OIDC, SSL/TLS, secrets management.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate scalable, highly available, multi-account cloud infrastructure (AWS).
• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code modules and standards using Terraform (modules, state management, policy-as-code).
• Develop reusable platform patterns, landing zones, and golden paths for engineering teams.
• Optimize and operate CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Harness).
• Enable developer self-service and reduce manual intervention through automation.
• Manage Kubernetes platforms (EKS) — networking, scaling, upgrades, and workload onboardings.
• Operate and support Kafka-based event streaming platforms — topics, schemas, connectors, and cluster reliability.
• Build and integrate REST APIs and self-service tooling to streamline platform workflows.
• Implement cloud security and governance (IAM, OAuth/OIDC, OKTA, SSL/TLS, secrets management).
• Drive cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, and FinOps practices.
• Implement observability — metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and SRE.
• Lead incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis across platform and runtime systems.
• Partner with application teams to troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment, and runtime issues.
• Drive continuous improvement using operational insights and user feedback.
• Enhance documentation, runbooks, and platform usability.

Skills

Cloud AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Security IAM

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Harness

Job description

Location: Irvine, CA (Hybrid)

Duration: Long-Term

Experience: 10+ Years

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