Cloud Platform Engineer (Contractor)

Full Stack Energy•Remote (must work hours overlapping with US Pacific Time / California business hours), CA

6d•Remote

About The Position

You’ll be joining Full Stack Energy as a contractor, working on behalf of a US-based firm that supports regulators, utilities, investors, and policymakers with rigorous energy and climate modeling that informs real-world decisions. Their analyses shape regulatory proceedings, grid planning, and long-term decarbonization strategies. As Cloud Platform Engineer, you’ll design and operate the cloud infrastructure that powers large-scale modeling and analytics for this engagement. Your work will ensure the reliability, security, and transparency of systems used to produce high-impact, client-facing analyses and reports that directly support the energy transition. This role suits engineers who are equally comfortable writing and reasoning about code as they are operating infrastructure — you’ll be expected to read, write, and debug real software, not just configure dashboards.

Requirements

Genuine programming ability — comfortable reading, writing, and debugging real code, not just operating infrastructure through a UI
Prior experience in cloud, platform, or DevOps engineering in a professional capacity
Demonstrated ownership of cloud architecture in a production environment
Willingness and ability to learn new domain concepts quickly — you won't arrive knowing energy markets or grid planning, but you'll be expected to pick up the concepts that matter for the systems you're building
Clear communication and ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams
Hands-on experience with core AWS services (e.g., IAM, EC2, S3, VPC, CloudWatch, quotas)
Deep experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, OpenTofu, or equivalent)
Strong scripting and automation skills in Bash, Python, or PowerShell
Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, ideally using GitHub Actions
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
Working knowledge of cloud security principles and identity management

Nice To Haves

You thrive on change and treat new tools, platforms, and ways of working as opportunities rather than disruptions
You enjoy learning and are open to rethinking how you approach solutions
You're genuinely curious about the energy industry and want to understand the systems your code supports, not just the code itself
You are comfortable operating with high autonomy
You establish standards and implement them
You prefer automation and structural fixes over manual work
You apply governance proportionally — enabling innovation while protecting production systems
You work collaboratively and help each member of your team do their finest work, aware that each brings different experience, techniques, and qualifications
You are motivated by enabling high-impact work in the transition to a low-carbon energy system
You take ownership of your work, proactively seeking out answers and enjoy finding creative solutions

Responsibilities

Design and evolve the client's cloud infrastructure
Ensure all infrastructure is provisioned through infrastructure-as-code and automated workflows
Define and enforce tagging, security, and governance standards
Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and/or AWS services
Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and container orchestration issues
Implement and maintain integrations between internal systems, third-party applications, and external partners
Deploy and manage containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes (EKS, ECS), and Helm
Integrate and manage monitoring and logging solutions such as DataDog and CloudWatch
Work with security and legal teams to support data and access governance requirements
Optimize cloud cost and performance; enable project-level cost attribution
Contribute to platform documentation, runbooks, and best practices to support adoption and operational readiness
Other software and data duties as needed