AWS Platform Specialist

Bright Vision Technologies • Overland Park, KS

1d • $135,000 - $150,000 • Remote

About The Position

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an experienced AWS Platform Specialist to design, build, and operate large-scale, secure, and highly available cloud platforms on Amazon Web Services. This is a hands-on engineering role spanning architecture, infrastructure as code, automation, security, observability, and continuous operational improvement for mission-critical production workloads. The specialist will apply strong knowledge of AWS services and DevOps practices with a pragmatic, cost-aware design approach, partnering with application, security, and SRE teams to deliver resilient, cloud-native solutions that scale with the business. The position is 100% remote in the United States, full-time, direct W2, with an annual salary range of $135,000–$150,000. Six or more years of experience is stated for the role. The employer cannot sponsor new H-1B visa petitions; U.S. citizens, green card holders, EAD holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply.

Requirements

• Five or more years of cloud engineering experience, including at least three years focused on AWS in production environments.
• Hands-on experience with AWS core services, including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront, and CloudFormation.
• Production-grade experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
• Experience designing and operating Amazon EKS or ECS clusters at scale.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application workloads.
• Strong scripting skills in Python and Bash.
• Deep understanding of cloud security, IAM, encryption, key management, and compliance requirements.
• Experience implementing observability, monitoring, and alerting in cloud-native environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.

Nice To Haves

• Go or PowerShell familiarity.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or DevOps Engineer – Professional certification.
• Experience with multi-account AWS Organizations and centralized governance.
• Familiarity with service mesh, eBPF-based observability, and zero-trust networking.
• Exposure to FinOps practices and well-architected cost-optimization frameworks.
• Experience operating regulated workloads, including HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, or FedRAMP.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate large-scale, secure, and highly available AWS cloud platforms.
• Work hands-on across cloud architecture, infrastructure as code, automation, security, and observability.
• Continuously improve operations for mission-critical production workloads.
• Partner with application, security, and SRE teams to deliver resilient, cloud-native solutions that scale with the business.
• Design and operate AWS container clusters using Amazon EKS or ECS.
• Implement and operate CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application workloads.
• Implement monitoring, observability, and alerting in cloud-native environments.
• Troubleshoot cloud platform issues and maintain strong communication and documentation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed