Senior Cloud Platform Architect – EC2 Control Plane

Amazon Inc.; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Disability insurance

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Software Development Engineer III to lead architecture and technical direction for EC2 control-plane services in air-gapped regions, defining how government cloud infrastructure evolves and scales for secure deployments.

In this role you will mentor engineers, own end-to-end deployment pipelines for disconnected regions, align cross-team roadmaps, and drive the technical vision to improve automation, code quality, and fleet reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Responsibilities

• Architect and define the technical direction for EC2 control-plane services, fleet health automation, and capacity tooling across air-gapped cloud environments, driving system design decisions that reduce blast radius and improve fleet reliability.
• Own end-to-end design of deployment pipelines and deployment orchestration for disconnected, isolated regions, including defining deployment strategies, monitoring standards, and incident response frameworks.
• Influence cross-team roadmaps and align multiple teams on shared infrastructure goals, data quality standards, and tooling strategy while partnering with cross-functional stakeholders across the air-gapped partition ecosystem.
• Mentor and develop engineers across the team, conduct design and code reviews, and raise the technical bar for the organization.
• Evaluate opportunities to integrate generative artificial intelligence tools and techniques to improve automation, code quality, and team productivity

Skills

Software development experience

Leadership

Architecture design

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Software Development Engineer III to lead architecture and technical direction for EC2 control-plane services in air-gapped regions, defining how government cloud infrastructure evolves and scales for secure deployments.

In this role you will mentor engineers, own end-to-end deployment pipelines for disconnected regions, align cross-team roadmaps, and drive the technical vision to improve automation, code quality, and fleet reliability.