Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer & Team Lead

MESO SCALE DIAGNOSTICS; Rockville (MD); Hybrid; USD 132,000 - 206,000; Full time

Job summary

MESO SCALE DIAGNOSTICS seeks a hands-on Cloud Engineering lead to design, build, and operate a scalable AWS platform spanning manufacturing, CRO, SaaS, and commercial segments. You will mentor engineers, set standards, and drive automation across CI/CD, IaC, and security practices.

You will lead multi-account AWS architecture, secure and highly available deployments, and partner with cybersecurity, SRE, and enterprise teams to align with regulatory requirements (FDA/ISO/SOC2) and enable rapid,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a computing-related field or equivalent experience; Master’s preferred.
• At least 10 years in cloud or infrastructure engineering, with leadership experience.
• Extensive hands-on AWS engineering across core services and security controls.
• Proven IaC experience with Terraform (preferred) and CloudFormation/CDK.
• Experience operating in regulated environments and with audits/regulatory controls.

Responsibilities

• Lead Cloud Engineering and DevOps teams; set direction and runbooks, grow talent.
• Architect, build, and operate MSD’s AWS multi-account environment with security and HA.
• Maintain hands-on coding in Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and production support.
• Own infrastructure–as–code standards, state management, and CI/CD integration.
• Operate ECS/EKS/Compute, networking, and security tooling across platforms.
• Design cloud networking (VPC, Transit, Direct Connect) and hybrid connectivity.
• Own the CI/CD platform and developer tooling, enforcing quality and controls.
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity on IAM, KMS, GuardDuty, SIEM integrations.
• Lead SRE practices: SLOs/SLIs, on-call, observability, and DR testing.
• Guide cloud-native design and migrations with various teams; ensure compliance.

Skills

AWS architecture

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Security engineering

SRE practices

Python

Team leadership

Cloud networking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

OpenSearch

Prometheus

CloudWatch

GuardDuty

Job description

MESO SCALE DIAGNOSTICS seeks a hands-on Cloud Engineering lead to design, build, and operate a scalable AWS platform spanning manufacturing, CRO, SaaS, and commercial segments. You will mentor engineers, set standards, and drive automation across CI/CD, IaC, and security practices.

You will lead multi-account AWS architecture, secure and highly available deployments, and partner with cybersecurity, SRE, and enterprise teams to align with regulatory requirements (FDA/ISO/SOC2) and enable rapid,