Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer (Remote)

Iralogix; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

IRALOGIX is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to design, implement, and maintain scalable AWS-based infrastructure. The role focuses on EKS, Fargate, MQ, RDS, and Redshift, with a strong emphasis on security and reliability.

You will work with Platform Architecture to ensure alignment with business needs, performance goals, and cost optimization while collaborating with software, site reliability, and security teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• AWS Solutions Architect or similar certification preferred.
• Experience designing and managing AWS cloud services with EKS, Fargate, MQ, RDS, and Redshift.
• Proficiency in Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of IaC and automation tools.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• US work authorization required.

Responsibilities

• Designs, deploys, and maintains AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Manages AWS EKS clusters for high availability and scalability.
• Implements serverless container orchestration with AWS Fargate.
• Configures and maintains messaging brokers (MQ, RabbitMQ) for distributed apps.
• Optimizes Amazon RDS and Redshift for performance and analytics.
• Develops IaC templates using CloudFormation, Terraform, or CDK.
• Configures monitoring with CloudWatch and Datadog.
• Collaborates with security and platform teams to meet requirements.
• Applies AWS Well-Architected Framework for best practices.

Skills

AWS EKS

AWS Fargate

Amazon MQ

RDS

Redshift

IaC

Terraform

CloudFormation

Datadog

CloudWatch

Docker

Kubernetes

Security

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Datadog

CloudWatch

Amazon MQ

Job description

IRALOGIX is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to design, implement, and maintain scalable AWS-based infrastructure. The role focuses on EKS, Fargate, MQ, RDS, and Redshift, with a strong emphasis on security and reliability.

You will work with Platform Architecture to ensure alignment with business needs, performance goals, and cost optimization while collaborating with software, site reliability, and security teams.