Senior Cloud Platform Engineer – AWS, Kubernetes, FinOps

KBX Logistics LLC; Wichita (KS); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Flexible spending accounts

Life insurance

Disability

Retirement plan

Paid vacation/time off

Educational assistance

Infertility assistance

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

Job summary

KBX Logistics is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate an AWS-first platform enabling secure, scalable product delivery across teams. This hands-on role owns cloud infrastructure, networking, EKS, service mesh, automation, security, reliability, and cost optimization.

You will shape platform standards, lead the Kubernetes-based platform, and drive incident response while mentoring engineers and balancing cost and performance.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting production AWS environments with multi-account setups.
• Experience troubleshooting AWS network connectivity and security at enterprise scale.
• Experience deploying production container workloads on EKS or ECS, incl. ingress config.
• Experience building reusable cloud infra with Terraform and automating deployments via CI/CD.
• Experience scripting in Python or shell for automation.
• Experience applying cloud security and reliability practices (IAM, encryption, monitoring, incident response).
• Experience advising on cloud strategy and platform direction.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve secure, scalable AWS infrastructure and multi-account platform aligned with security and reliability requirements.
• Lead the platform lifecycle strategy for the Kubernetes-based platform and shared services (EKS, Istio, MSK/Kafka, Redis).
• Build and govern IaC and GitOps with Terraform, Argo CD, Helm, and GitHub Actions for automated provisioning and deployment.
• Define platform standards and reusable capabilities enabling teams to adopt cloud and AI securely and at scale.
• Design and implement cloud security guardrails including IAM, networks, encryption, and secrets management.
• Contribute to observability practices across logging, metrics, and tracing to improve operational health.
• Lead incident response and root-cause analyses to reduce recurrence.
• Collaborate with Software Eng, DevOps, Security, and IT leadership to translate requirements into platform solutions.
• Implement FinOps practices for cost allocation, tagging, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership through code reviews and architecture discussions.
• Mentor junior engineers and raise technical standards across teams.
• Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and guide tool/framework adoption.

Skills

AWS cloud design

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform

GitOps / Argo CD

Security & compliance

FinOps / cost optimization

Incident response & reliability

Python / shell scripting

Tools

Terraform

Argo CD

Helm

GitHub Actions

Istio

Kafka (MSK)

Redis/ElastiCache

Cloudflare

Job description

KBX Logistics is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate an AWS-first platform enabling secure, scalable product delivery across teams. This hands-on role owns cloud infrastructure, networking, EKS, service mesh, automation, security, reliability, and cost optimization.

You will shape platform standards, lead the Kubernetes-based platform, and drive incident response while mentoring engineers and balancing cost and performance.