Senior Cloud Platform Engineer: AWS, Kubernetes & CI/CD

U.S. Bank; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 112,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Parental leave

401(k)

Paid vacation

11 paid holidays

Adoption assistance

Sick leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking an experienced cloud engineer to design, deploy, and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform/CloudFormation. You will build multi-region environments, implement CI/CD pipelines, and enable automated provisioning and secure operations.

The role emphasizes Kubernetes on EKS, observability with Datadog and CloudWatch, and incident response to improve resilience. The ideal candidate will have 5–6 years of relevant experience, a Bachelor’s degree, strong DevOps practices, and a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• Five to six years of relevant experience.
• Strong expertise in AWS cloud services, compute, networking, storage, security, container, and serverless technologies.
• Deep knowledge of Terraform, CloudFormation, and IaC best practices.
• Experience designing, deploying, and operating Kubernetes environments, including EKS, Helm, service mesh, container security, and cluster optimization.
• Advanced experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, and modern DevOps practices.
• Strong proficiency in Linux administration, automation, and scripting using Python, Bash, and PowerShell.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices, including Tenable, Fortify, SonarQube, IAM, secrets management, certificate automation, and cloud security controls.
• Observability and monitoring platforms such as Datadog, CloudWatch, logging, tracing and alerting frameworks, with compliance support.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure using IaC to support scalable, secure, and highly available platforms.
• Architect and operate multi-region AWS environments ensuring resiliency and business continuity.
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable efficient software delivery.
• Develop automation solutions to streamline provisioning, deployments, testing, and operations.
• Build, administer, and enhance Kubernetes platforms on EKS including Helm and security controls.
• Implement observability practices using Datadog and CloudWatch to improve reliability.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis to improve platform resiliency and security.

Skills

AWS cloud services

IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation)

Kubernetes (EKS)

CI/CD pipelines

Python/Bash/PowerShell

Observability/Monitoring

Security/compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes (EKS)

Helm

GitHub Actions

GitLab

Jenkins

Datadog

CloudWatch

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking an experienced cloud engineer to design, deploy, and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform/CloudFormation. You will build multi-region environments, implement CI/CD pipelines, and enable automated provisioning and secure operations.

The role emphasizes Kubernetes on EKS, observability with Datadog and CloudWatch, and incident response to improve resilience. The ideal candidate will have 5–6 years of relevant experience, a Bachelor’s degree, strong DevOps practices, and a