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Senior Cloud platform Software Engineer

Gov Services HubAZ🇺🇸United StatesPosted 9 Jul 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
On Site
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Role : Senior Cloud platform Software Engineer

Location : Scottsdale, AZ 85250 (onsite)

Duration: Contract

We are looking for a software engineer to join our cloud platform team and help build scalable automated cloud solutions that empower development teams this role combines strong software engineering fundamentals with hands on AWS experience and a DevOps mindset.

Cloud Platform Software Engineer

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Must Have skills

1

Strong hands-on software engineering /application development experience -able to build services, components, APIs

2

Proficiency with Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or another modern scripting language

3

Ability to write scripts, utilities, and automation functions for cloud workflows

4

Experience with automated testing (unit, integration, functional) and test frameworks

5

Hands on experience with AWS cloud services, building cloud native applications and platform solutions

6

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, CDK, terraform-any one is fine)

7

Understanding of SQL/NoSQL managed database services

8

Experience designing or architecting applications, platforms, or distributed systems

Customer Expectation

Need more software experience

Automated testing

Should be able to write functions, script for automated testing

The candidate needs to have coding / scripting experience on JavaScript or other scripting language

Should be able to build a bunch of applications and not only migrate to cloud

What you will do

Design and build cloud native applications and platform services on AWS

Develop automation, functions, and scripting to support platform capabilities and self service tooling

Implement automated testing frameworks to ensure reliability, scalability, and quality

Create and maintain reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, or similar

Architect secure, scalable, and resilient cloud solutions following best practices

Build internal tools, reference architectures, and reusable components for application teams

Partner with developers to enable platform adoption and improve developer experience

Contribute to continuous delivery pipelines and DevOps workflows

Nice to have

CI/CD pipeline development (CodePipeline, Gitlab, Harness, GitHub Actions, etc.)

DevOps or platform engineering background

AWS networking (VPCs, subnets, routing)

AWS IAM and security best practices

AWS Account Factory/Control Tower experiences

Exp, with containers (ECS/EKS) or serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway)

Skills

SQL
API Gateway
AWS
CDK
CloudFormation
GitHub Actions
JavaScript
Python
Terraform
TypeScript

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