Cloud Platform Engineer

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Summary
Join a small, high-performing engineering team as a Cloud Platform Engineer focused on ambitious technology goals. This role offers excellent career growth opportunities and requires quick thinking, strategic awareness, and effective collaboration. You will build and manage scalable cloud infrastructures across AWS, Azure, and GCP, using tools like AWS CDK, Azure Blueprints, GCP Deployment Manager, and Terraform. Responsibilities include developing IAM policies, automating operations through GitHub Actions, instrumenting and deploying new codebases, and implementing security policies with Cloud Custodian. You will also educate stakeholders on cloud best practices and balance hands-on technical work with vendor collaboration and documentation. Troubleshooting modern containerized environments and traditional Windows Server infrastructures is essential, while maintaining strong operational and security standards.
Requirements
- Solid experience coding toward system β-ilitiesβ such as scalability, availability, and security
- Familiarity with OWASP security principles and ability to build secure systems by design
- Expertise in AWS (required), with working knowledge of Azure and GCP
- Strong understanding of Cloud as APIs managing real-world components, not just virtual servers
- Ability to switch comfortably between various Unix/Linux shell syntaxes, Windows CLI, and GNU/Linux environments
- Practical experience debugging Python 3.x, JavaScript, and similar languages
- Proven ability to build infrastructure as code solutions and deploy using modern DevOps tools
- Comfort balancing traditional server-oriented workflows with containerized, cloud-native architectures
- A strong bias for action, continuous learning, and teaching others
- Ability to document and clearly share new knowledge across the team
- Familiarity with tools like Jira, Confluence, Zoom, GitHub, and Artifactory
Responsibilities
- Build and manage scalable cloud infrastructures across AWS, Azure, and GCP using tools like AWS CDK, Azure Blueprints, GCP Deployment Manager, and Terraform
- Develop IAM policies and automate operations through GitHub Actions
- Instrument and deploy new codebases
- Implement security policies with Cloud Custodian
- Educate stakeholders on cloud best practices
- Balance hands-on technical work, vendor collaboration, process documentation, and knowledge sharing across platforms like Jira, Confluence, and GitHub
- Troubleshoot both modern containerized environments and traditional Windows Server infrastructures, while consistently upholding strong operational and security standards
Preferred Qualifications
- Highly motivated, entrepreneurial, and team-oriented individuals
- Strong commercial and results-driven orientation
- Outstanding team collaboration and influencing skills
- High levels of trust and integrity
- Strategic and entrepreneurial thinking
- Excellent organizational and interpersonal communication skills
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