Senior Cloud Platform Engineer — AWS & Kubernetes

New Era Technology; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

New Era Technology, LLC., is seeking an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to design, develop, and maintain cloud and containerized platforms supporting application development and deployment. The candidate will focus on scalable deployment solutions, infrastructure automation, platform reliability, security, monitoring, and operational efficiency across hybrid cloud environments.

The role emphasizes mentoring, project leadership, and collaboration with development, security, and operations

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of Platform/Cloud Engineering or DevOps experience.
• Extensive AWS and AWS resource management experience.
• Proficient with Amazon EKS and Kubernetes.
• Experience integrating AWS EKS with on‑premises infrastructure.
• Terraform and IaC expertise.
• GitOps workflows for infra and apps.
• GitHub Actions CI/CD automation.
• Bash and/or PowerShell scripting.
• Strong Linux troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with container platforms and orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain custom GitHub Actions for building and deploying applications.
• Develop scripts and automation modules to deploy applications to target platforms.
• Design and develop frameworks for backup and restore of applications, containers, and platform resources.
• Work with Kubernetes to develop solutions and controllers that can automatically identify and remediate issues within containerized clusters.
• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform following industry best practices.
• Build infrastructure solutions that support effective monitoring, reporting, and observability.
• Design and implement GitOps workflows for infrastructure and application deployments.
• Support and manage AWS EKS environments and integrate EKS with on-premises infrastructure.
• Create and manage AWS resources using the AWS Console and appropriate automation tools.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues across Linux, Kubernetes, AWS, containers, and application deployment environments.
• Implement and maintain container orchestration and deployment strategies.
• Support multi-cluster Kubernetes environments using appropriate management and deployment tools.
• Implement monitoring, observability, and centralized logging solutions across hybrid environments.
• Help optimize cloud costs for hybrid cloud workloads.
• Implement security best practices for cloud accounts and platforms while maintaining efficient deployment processes.
• Support compliance, security, and operational requirements for hybrid cloud deployments.
• Contribute to disaster recovery planning and platform resiliency.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, security, operations, and other teams to improve platform capabilities.
• Participate in technical discussions, design reviews, and knowledge-transfer sessions.
• Mentor junior engineers/developers on technical design, implementation, and best practices.
• Take a project leadership role on medium to large-scale technical projects when required.
• Test solutions, troubleshoot issues, learn new technologies, and iterate quickly.
• Proactively identify problems and develop pragmatic and scalable solutions.
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders across the organization.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

GitOps

GitHub Actions

Bash

PowerShell

Linux

Terraform

CI/CD

Monitoring

Security practices

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

AWS Certified Developer

AWS Certified Technician

CKA

CKAD

Terraform Associate

LFCS

Tools

Fleet

Rancher

Argo CD

Talos Linux

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK Stack

GitHub Actions

Job description

New Era Technology, LLC., is seeking an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to design, develop, and maintain cloud and containerized platforms supporting application development and deployment. The candidate will focus on scalable deployment solutions, infrastructure automation, platform reliability, security, monitoring, and operational efficiency across hybrid cloud environments.

The role emphasizes mentoring, project leadership, and collaboration with development, security, and operations