Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - AWS, IaC & CI/CD

Credence; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Credence is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to drive cloud modernization for DoW customers. The role emphasizes building, operating, and improving reusable cloud platform capabilities using AWS, IaC, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and containerization.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience securing cloud environments, creating repeatable infrastructure patterns, and boosting deployment efficiency. You will collaborate with Cloud Engineers, Solutions Architects, Cybersecurity Professionals,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.
• Hands-on cloud engineering and platform engineering experience.
• Experience with AWS core services and cloud infrastructure automation.
• Ability to design secure, scalable cloud platform solutions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams to manage, modernize, and secure AWS platforms for DoW customers.
• Build and improve reusable cloud infrastructure with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines for build, test, security, deployment, and release.
• Assist onboarding workloads to platform services and standardized deployment patterns.
• Support containerized deployments with Docker, ECS, EKS, and Fargate.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, pipelines, containers, networking, and permissions across environments.
• Automate tasks to improve reliability and delivery speed.
• Maintain monitoring, logging, access control, and configuration management.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Docker

ECS

EKS

CloudFormation

Python

Shell

Security+

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related technical field

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

AWS CodePipeline

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

CloudWatch

Job description

Credence is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to drive cloud modernization for DoW customers. The role emphasizes building, operating, and improving reusable cloud platform capabilities using AWS, IaC, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and containerization.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience securing cloud environments, creating repeatable infrastructure patterns, and boosting deployment efficiency. You will collaborate with Cloud Engineers, Solutions Architects, Cybersecurity Professionals,