Senior Cloud Platform Engineer — AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior cloud infrastructure engineer in the United States to design, build, and operate multi-account AWS environments with a strong emphasis on automation and security.

You will manage Kubernetes/EKS platforms, implement IaC with Terraform, and advance CI/CD practices using GitHub Actions. The role requires deep AWS knowledge, excellent collaboration, and a commitment to reliable, compliant infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher or equivalent work experience.
• 4+ years designing, building, and operating production cloud infra.
• Deep hands-on AWS experience across networking, security, compute, and storage.
• Experience owning multi-account AWS environments.
• Proficiency with Terraform or similar IaC tools.
• Production Kubernetes/EKS experience including lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve multi-account AWS infrastructure using automation and IaC
• Own production infrastructure changes from design through implementation, validation, documentation, and operational support
• Build and operate Kubernetes and EKS platforms, including cluster lifecycle management, container image security, runtime controls, observability, and workload onboarding
• Modernize network architecture and connectivity using VPCs, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, VPC endpoints, Route 53, network firewalls, and secure egress controls
• Strengthen AWS identity and organization governance through account provisioning, IAM roles, permission boundaries, service control policies, access-key hygiene, and secrets rotation
• Improve production visibility and stability through Grafana, Prometheus, distributed tracing, logging improvements, proactive monitoring, incident response, and root-cause analysis
• Advance CI/CD and software supply-chain practices, including GitHub Actions, OIDC, secure runners, artifact management, package controls, and retirement of legacy delivery tooling
• Improve resiliency, compliance, and operational efficiency through backup and recovery controls, vulnerability remediation, Terraform drift management, audit evidence, and responsible AI-assisted automation
• Serve as a trusted technical escalation point for complex infrastructure issues
• Explain infrastructure decisions and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical partners
• Help colleagues apply AI tools responsibly

Skills

AWS Expertise

Kubernetes Management

Terraform

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

Network Architecture

Security & Compliance

Observability

Incident Response

Automation scripting

AI tooling for infra

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

AWS Certification

Tools

GitHub Actions

Grafana

Prometheus

Splunk

Jenkins

Argo CD

JFrog Artifactory

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a senior cloud infrastructure engineer in the United States to design, build, and operate multi-account AWS environments with a strong emphasis on automation and security.

You will manage Kubernetes/EKS platforms, implement IaC with Terraform, and advance CI/CD practices using GitHub Actions. The role requires deep AWS knowledge, excellent collaboration, and a commitment to reliable, compliant infrastructure.