Cloud Enablement Engineer

Truist•Charlotte, NC

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Cloud Platform Engineer is a hands-on senior individual contributor embedded within a shared services organization, responsible for enabling application teams across the enterprise to safely and efficiently build, deploy, and operate workloads on the AWS cloud platform. This role sits at the intersection of cloud enablement, container security, and developer empowerment. The ideal candidate is a cloud-native engineer and natural teacher who leads by example: pairing with developers, building secure guardrails by default, and making the right path the easy path. This is a pure engineering and enablement role with no operational on-call responsibility. The engineer influences platform direction, mentor’s peers and junior engineers, and drives capability uplift across business units rather than creating dependency on the platform team.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in infrastructure engineering.
Advanced knowledge of enterprise infrastructure technologies including cloud, network, database, storage, platform, computing, and middleware.
AWS deep hands-on expertise required (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, ECS, Fargate)
Terraform, consuming and contributing to enterprise modules
GitLab CI/CD pipeline enablement, and developer onboarding
Python automation, guardrail tooling, and toil reduction
Docker image building, hardening, scanning, and compliance enforcement
Wiz, CrowdStrike or equivalent container scanning tooling
AWS SCPs, IAM, Security Groups, AWS Config, Wiz
AWS Resilience Hub, AWS Fault Injection Simulator
AWS CloudWatch or equivalent, logging, metrics, alerting, dashboards
Azure basic working knowledge preferred

Nice To Haves

AWS Certification Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or Security Specialty
Experience in platform engineering, cloud enablement, or CCoE at enterprise scale
Demonstrated container security experience, base image governance and pipeline-integrated scanning
Hands-on experience with cloud guardrails SCPs, Config rules, and automated policy enforcement
Chaos engineering experience AWS FIS or with Resilience hub
Proven mentoring and coaching track record with measurable capability uplift
Experience contributing to IDP tooling, self-service capabilities, or developer-facing documentation
Hands-on experience with agentic AI frameworks, Amazon Bedrock, AWS Strands, Bedrock AgentCore
Exposure to FinOps practices and cloud cost awareness
Experience in the financial services industry
Agentic AI (Preferred): AWS Strands, FastAPI, Amazon Bedrock, Bedrock AgentCore with Guardrails

Responsibilities

Enable application teams to adopt and operate on the enterprise AWS platform through pair programming, workshops, documentation, and training. Drive developer self-sufficiency, transfer knowledge, don't create dependency. Support adoption of enterprise Terraform modules and GitLab CI/CD pipelines, reducing friction at every step.
Own and maintain hardened base container images aligned to enterprise standards. Enforce compliance automatically within CI/CD pipelines and educate teams on security best practices and guardrail rationale.
Build and maintain guardrails, SCPs, IAM policies, and pipeline-enforced compliance checks so non-compliant deployments are blocked by default. Monitor for configuration drift and drive proactive remediation.
Champion reliability engineering principles across teams. Conduct resiliency reviews via AWS Resilience hub and provide consulting guidance on DR and BCP requirements. Drive chaos engineering adoption to surface weaknesses proactively and help teams instrument workloads for observability.
Build Python-based automation and reusable tooling that eliminates repetitive tasks and makes common cloud tasks faster, safer, and more consistent for platform and application teams alike.
Lead technical direction within the platform team, influence roadmap, and mentor junior engineers. Conduct peer reviews, influence decisions across peer teams, and translate developer needs into platform improvements across business units. Identify and escalate cost optimization opportunities to the FinOps squad.
Works to achieve operational targets with major impact on the infrastructure engineering department or job area results and contributes to the development of goals for area of responsibility.
Designs, builds, manages, and implements enterprise infrastructure technology platforms and systems across cloud, network, database, storage, platform, computing, or middleware domains.
Develops and applies automation, monitoring, and optimization techniques to ensure high availability and performance of infrastructure.
Manages large infrastructure projects and programs aligned with organizational strategy and regulatory requirements.
Collaborates with cross-functional teams and external partners to integrate new technologies and continuously improve infrastructure standards and processes.
Troubleshoots and resolves complex technical issues impacting infrastructure performance and reliability.
Ensures compliance with technology strategies, standards, and governance to mitigate risks and ensure regulatory adherence.
Reviews infrastructure designs, configurations, and procedures to support operational consistency and knowledge sharing.
Provides strong technical guidance, training, and direction to infrastructure teams and lower-level technical professionals.
Demonstrates innovative influence with stakeholders in supporting business objectives and technical strategic objectives.