AWS Cloud Platform Engineer
About The Position
Guidehouse is seeking an AWS Cloud Platform Engineer to join our team. This role involves designing, building, and managing scalable, secure, and highly available cloud platform environments across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP. You will develop and maintain cloud platform services and landing zones, including networking, identity, compute, and storage components. A key part of this role is implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Bicep to automate infrastructure provisioning. You will also build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and platform automation frameworks to enable consistent and repeatable deployments. Collaboration with application, DevOps, and security teams is essential for onboarding workloads and defining platform standards, guardrails, and best practices. Monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing platform performance, cost, and reliability using observability tools (logs, metrics, tracing) will be a daily task. You will implement and enforce security and compliance controls aligned to federal standards (e.g., NIST, FedRAMP). Supporting cloud migrations and modernization efforts, including rehost, re-platform, and re-architect initiatives, is also part of the responsibilities. Additionally, you will develop reusable platform modules, templates, and self-service capabilities for engineering teams and document platform architecture, configurations, and operational procedures.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree. Additional Four (4) years of experience can be used in lieu of degree.
- Minimum of Four (4) years of IT experience, with at least 1+ years in cloud platform engineering or DevOps environments.
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, etc.).
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, etc.).
- Knowledge of cloud networking fundamentals (VPC/VNet, subnets, routing, security groups).
- Experience with container platforms such as Kubernetes and Docker.
- Working knowledge of scripting/programming (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.
- Due to the nature of this role and associated government clearance requirements, candidates must be U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents (Green Card holders) to be eligible for consideration.
- Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse.
- Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.
Nice To Haves
- Cloud certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Engineer/DevOps, GCP Professional).
- Experience designing enterprise landing zones and platform architectures.
- Knowledge of observability and SRE practices (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.).
- Experience implementing Zero Trust security models and governance controls.
- Familiarity with federal environments and compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, NIST 800-53).
- Experience with hybrid cloud and multi-cloud deployments.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available cloud platform environments across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
- Develop and maintain cloud platform services and landing zones, including networking, identity, compute, and storage components.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Bicep to automate infrastructure provisioning.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and platform automation frameworks to enable consistent and repeatable deployments.
- Collaborate with application, DevOps, and security teams to onboard workloads and define platform standards, guardrails, and best practices.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize platform performance, cost, and reliability using observability tools (logs, metrics, tracing).
- Implement and enforce security and compliance controls aligned to federal standards (e.g., NIST, FedRAMP).
- Support cloud migrations and modernization efforts, including rehost, re-platform, and re-architect initiatives.
- Develop reusable platform modules, templates, and self-service capabilities for engineering teams.
- Document platform architecture, configurations, and operational procedures.
Benefits
- Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
- Parental Leave
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Group Term Life and Travel Assistance
- Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
- Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits
- Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
- Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities
- Employee Referral Program
- Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach Care.com annual membership
- Employee Assistance Program
- Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)
- Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
