Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (AWS/Kubernetes)

Koch; Wichita (KS); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Flexible spending and health savings

Life insurance

Disability

Retirement

Paid vacation/time off

Educational assistance

Infertility assistance

Paid parental leave and adoption

Job summary

KBX Logistics, a Koch company, is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate a modern AWS-first cloud platform. You will own cloud infrastructure, networking, and security, with focus on EKS, Istio, and cost optimization.

You will mentor engineers, define platform standards, and partner with IT leadership to accelerate delivery while maintaining reliability and compliance across teams.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting production AWS environments that use multiple accounts, VPCs, compute, storage, IAM roles, and network services.
• Experience designing and troubleshooting AWS network connectivity and security using VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups, PrivateLink, VPNs, or comparable services at enterprise scale.
• Experience deploying and operating production container workloads on Amazon EKS or ECS, including container networking and ingress configuration.
• Experience building reusable cloud infrastructure with Terraform and automating deployments or operational workflows through GitHub Actions or another CI/CD platform.
• Experience creating/maintaining automation using either Python or shell scripts.
• Experience applying cloud security and reliability practices (including IAM, encryption, secrets management, monitoring, logging, high availability, incident response, and root‑cause analysis).
• Experience making recommendations and solutioning for the company's cloud strategy.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve secure, scalable AWS infrastructure and multi-account platform solutions.
• Lead the technical direction and lifecycle strategy of the cloud platform (Kubernetes/EKS) and shared services.
• Build and govern Infrastructure as Code and GitOps practices for automated provisioning, testing, and deployment.
• Define platform standards, reusable capabilities, and operational controls for cloud and AI adoption.
• Design and implement cloud security guardrails, including IAM, encryption, and secrets management.
• Contribute to observability practices and use platform data to improve reliability.
• Lead incident response and root-cause analysis to drive durable improvements.

Skills

Cloud architecture design

Leadership & mentoring

Security & reliability mindset

Cost optimization

Tools

Terraform

Argo CD

Helm

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Istio

Kafka

Redis/ElastiCache

Job description

KBX Logistics, a Koch company, is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate a modern AWS-first cloud platform. You will own cloud infrastructure, networking, and security, with focus on EKS, Istio, and cost optimization.

You will mentor engineers, define platform standards, and partner with IT leadership to accelerate delivery while maintaining reliability and compliance across teams.