AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

Position: AWS Cloud Platform Engineer / Senior AWS Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Iselin, NJ - Hybrid
Duration: Fulltime

Required Technical Skills

• 5+ years AWS Cloud Engineering experience
• Strong hands-on experience with EC2, EKS, ALB/NLB, VPC, Route53, IAM, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail
• Experience with Amazon Bedrock and AWS AI services
• Strong understanding of AWS cost management, resource tagging, budgeting, and governance
• Experience designing secure, scalable cloud architectures
• Hands-on Terraform or Infrastructure-as-Code experience
• Experience automating cloud operations using Python, PowerShell, or Bash
• Familiarity with enterprise security, compliance, and vulnerability management

Preferred Skills

• FinOps certification or AWS Cost Optimization experience
• Kubernetes administration (EKS)
• AI/GenAI platform engineering using Amazon Bedrock
• AWS Solutions Architect certification

Core Skills (Must Have)

• AWS Compute & Containers
• EC2 administration and optimization
• Auto Scaling Groups
• Elastic Load Balancer (ALB/NLB)
• Amazon EKS (Kubernetes)
• ECS/Fargate (preferred)

AWS Security & Identity

• IAM Roles and Policies
• Least Privilege access design
• AWS Organizations
• SSO / Identity Federation
• KMS
• Secrets Manager
• CloudTrail
• Security monitoring and compliance

AWS AI Services

• Amazon Bedrock
• Bedrock Guardrails
• Bedrock API integration
• Foundation Models (Claude, Nova, etc.)
• AI workload governance and security

Monitoring & Observability

• CloudWatch Metrics
• CloudWatch Logs
• CloudWatch Alarms
• CloudTrail
• Dashboard creation
• Alerting and operational monitoring

Cost Management & Governance

• AWS Cost Explorer
• Cost allocation
• Resource tagging strategy
• Reserved Instances / Savings Plans
• Budget creation and monitoring
• Cost optimization reviews
• FinOps fundamentals

Preferred Skills

Infrastructure as Code

• Terraform (preferred)
• CloudFormation

Automation

• Python
• Bash scripting
• Ansible

Pay: $105,000.00 - $110,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Retirement plan

Experience:

• AWS: 5 years (Required)
• Amazon EKS: 3 years (Required)
• Kubernetes: 3 years (Required)
• AWS Bedrock: 2 years (Required)
• AWS CloudFormation: 3 years (Required)
• Python: 4 years (Required)
• Terraform: 1 year (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Iselin, NJ 08830