Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - AWS & CI/CD Automation

Hydrogen Group; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 209,175,000 - 223,502,000; Full time

Job summary

Hydrogen Group in Oakland, CA, offers a hybrid Cloud Platform Engineer contract role focused on cloud infrastructure management, CI/CD automation, and platform reliability within AWS. The position requires deep hands-on AWS experience and IaC skills to drive security, cost efficiency, and operational resilience.

You will design, build, and optimize deployment pipelines, manage AWS services, and collaborate with development teams to boost productivity while ensuring secure, scalable cloud

Qualifications

• 5+ years of DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering experience.
• Hands-on AWS experience including EKS, ECS, Lambda, IAM, S3, and RDS.
• Experience with Terraform, GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Scripting in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
• Manage and optimize EKS, ECS, Lambda, S3, API Gateway, and related AWS services.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub and Terraform.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automate operational processes.
• Monitor platform health, troubleshoot issues, and provide production support.
• Drive vulnerability remediation, security compliance, and platform upgrades.
• Improve observability, disaster recovery readiness, and operational resilience.
• Partner with development teams to streamline deployments and improve engineering productivity.
• Support AWS cost optimization and cloud governance initiatives.

Skills

DevOps

Cloud engineering

CI/CD

Scripting

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub

DevSecOps

Production support

Tools

AWS

Terraform

GitHub

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Bash

PowerShell

IAM

S3

Job description

Hydrogen Group in Oakland, CA, offers a hybrid Cloud Platform Engineer contract role focused on cloud infrastructure management, CI/CD automation, and platform reliability within AWS. The position requires deep hands-on AWS experience and IaC skills to drive security, cost efficiency, and operational resilience.

You will design, build, and optimize deployment pipelines, manage AWS services, and collaborate with development teams to boost productivity while ensuring secure, scalable cloud