Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Obra Capital, Inc.•Indianapolis, IN

10h•Onsite

About The Position

Obra is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to serve as part of an IT-Solutions team supporting our AWS cloud environment. As a member of the Platform Team, this individual will have the primary responsibility to ensure appropriate architecture, infrastructure enablement, automation, and observability while continuously improving team tools, processes, and procedures. This position is responsible for developing new solutions & resolving issues using standard AWS tools and best practices in collaboration with the IT team. Other duties include CI/CD support, standards and governance, and collaboration with the Managed Service Provider (MSP) and consulting partners. The candidate must demonstrate a strong technical knowledge of AWS cloud engineering, enablement and automation. This is a hands-on technical leadership role that combines engineering, architecture, platform strategy, and governance. This position is based in the Indianapolis office.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in information management, computer sciences or technically related area
4+ years of experience in cloud engineering or platform engineering roles
Strong hands-on experience with AWS
Experience building infrastructure using Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation
Experience designing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployments
Understanding of AWS networking, IAM, and core cloud architecture patterns
Experience working in environments with MSPs or external partners
Strong understanding of data security, access control, and governance in regulated environments
Experience working with system integrators or external partners during large platform initiatives
Strong automation mindset — prefers code over manual configuration
Able to collaborate across security, data, and application teams
Comfortable working in a fast-evolving, greenfield cloud environment
Strong documentation and knowledge-sharing habits
Pragmatic and delivery-focused
Results and detail oriented
Ability to multi-task and execute under pressure
Internally driven and self-motivated
Intellectual curiosity, forward-thinking

Nice To Haves

Experience in insurance, annuities, or financial services
Experience in regulated industries such as insurance or financial services
Experience implementing AWS landing zones or multi-account environments
Familiarity with container platforms (EKS, ECS) and serverless architectures
Understanding of cloud security best practices and policy-as-code
AWS certifications (Associate or Professional level) a plus

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor a team to deliver high-quality cloud solutions
Recognizes, identifies, triages and resolves platform issues; escalates to the appropriate resource where required.
Performs system and component level configuration, testing, and documentation for platform projects.
Assists in development of project efforts providing estimates for development and documentation.
Identifies and recommends methods for improved automation, scalability, better monitoring, and process transparency across all stakeholders.
Ensure existing standards and methodologies are in place and works together with the development team to identify and implement enhanced standards and methodologies for development practices.
Provides feedback to the platform team regarding bug fixes, enhancement requests and other issues.
Recommend strategies, procedures, and new technologies for implementation
Develop and maintain reusable Terraform or AWS CDK modules for common infrastructure patterns
Automate provisioning of AWS resources including: Networking components
Compute environments (EKS/ECS/EC2/Lambda)
IAM roles and policies
Storage and foundational services
Ensure all infrastructure is provisioned through code and aligned with platform standards
Help implement and enhance the AWS landing zone including account baselines and guardrails
Support automation for: Account setup and configuration Logging and monitoring integration Environment bootstrapping for application teams
Partner with Security to embed guardrails and policies into automation
Design and maintain cloud infrastructure pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar
Enable application teams to deploy infrastructure safely and consistently
Improve developer experience through self-service patterns and documentation
Implement standards for tagging, cost allocation, and resource naming
Embed security and compliance controls into infrastructure automation
Ensure environments are built according to approved architecture patterns
Work with consulting partners to transition platform automation into internal ownership
Ensure infrastructure modules and pipelines are documented and maintainable
Coordinate with the MSP to align automation with operational support models
Help automate integration with logging, monitoring, and alerting platforms
Support platform-level reliability patterns such as multi-AZ deployments