AWS Platform Specialist
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 deeply hands-on engineering role spans architecture, infrastructure as code, automation, security, observability, and continuous operational improvement for mission-critical production workloads. The successful candidate will have strong knowledge of AWS services and DevOps fundamentals, apply pragmatic and cost-aware design, and partner with application, security, and SRE teams to deliver resilient cloud-native solutions that scale with the business. This is a full-time, direct W-2 position that is 100% remote within the United States. The stated annual salary range is $135,000–$150,000. Candidates who are U.S. citizens, Green Card holders, EAD holders, or seeking an H-1B transfer are encouraged to apply; the company cannot sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of cloud engineering experience, including at least 3 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 across 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
- Familiarity with Go or PowerShell.
- 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, such as HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, or FedRAMP.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate large-scale, secure, highly available AWS cloud platforms.
- Support architecture, infrastructure-as-code, automation, security, and observability for mission-critical production workloads.
- Continuously improve the operation of production cloud workloads.
- Partner with application, security, and SRE teams to deliver resilient, scalable, cloud-native solutions.
- Design and operate AWS infrastructure and container platforms, including Amazon EKS or ECS.
- Implement and operate CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application workloads.
- Implement observability, monitoring, and alerting in cloud-native environments.
- Troubleshoot cloud platform issues and produce clear documentation.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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