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AWS Cloud Platform Engineer -- Hybrid -- Only W2 Profiles

Trebecon LLCNaperville, IL🇺🇸United StatesPosted 26 Aug 2026

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Mid Senior
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On Site
Location
Naperville, IL, United States
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Yesterday
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Job Description

Job Title: Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

Location: Naperville, IL
Work Model: Hybrid – Remote Monday & Friday | Onsite Tuesday through Thursday

Job Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer with strong expertise in DevOps, Cloud Platform Engineering, Kubernetes, AWS, GitOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code.

The ideal candidate will be a hands-on platform engineer who can design, deploy, automate, and operate scalable cloud-native platforms. This role requires someone who continuously identifies opportunities to automate manual processes, improve platform reliability, reduce operational effort, and build internal engineering capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

Kubernetes & Container Platform Engineering
  • Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot workloads across AWS EKS and Azure AKS environments.
  • Design, build, and maintain Kubernetes clusters throughout their lifecycle.
  • Manage Kubernetes networking, ingress controllers, service meshes, pod communication, and traffic routing.
  • Troubleshoot complex issues involving pods, nodes, networking, DNS, storage, and cluster scalability.
  • Implement high-availability and disaster recovery strategies for Kubernetes platforms.
GitOps & Continuous Delivery
  • Design and manage enterprise-scale GitOps workflows using Argo CD.
  • Automate application deployments and environment promotion strategies.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
  • Define and enforce Git branching strategies and release management practices.
  • Improve deployment reliability, rollback capabilities, and release governance.
AWS Cloud Engineering

Strong hands-on experience with:
  • AWS EKS
  • EC2
  • Route 53
  • IAM
  • CloudFront/CDN
  • ALB & NLB
  • VPC and Cloud Networking
  • Security Groups and NACLs
  • AWS Secrets Manager
  • ElastiCache (Redis)
  • S3
  • CloudWatch
  • RDS
  • Auto Scaling and High Availability Architectures
Responsibilities include:
  • Designing secure, scalable, and resilient AWS cloud architectures.
  • Managing multi-account AWS environments.
  • Implementing disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.
  • Optimizing cloud cost, performance, security, and reliability.
Infrastructure as Code
  • Build and maintain reusable Terraform modules.
  • Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code best practices.
  • Maintain environment consistency and compliance through automation.
  • Troubleshoot Terraform state issues, infrastructure drift, and large-scale deployments.
Platform Automation & Engineering Excellence
  • Identify and eliminate manual operational processes through automation.
  • Develop automation solutions for deployment, infrastructure, monitoring, and incident response.
  • Build self-service capabilities and internal developer tools.
  • Improve engineering productivity and reduce operational and tooling costs.
Observability & Monitoring
  • Design monitoring and alerting solutions using Datadog or similar platforms.
  • Develop automated alert correlation and incident reduction mechanisms.
  • Create dashboards, SLOs, and observability standards.
  • Drive proactive monitoring practices across production environments.
Disaster Recovery & Resiliency
  • Design highly resilient and fault-tolerant cloud architectures.
  • Lead recovery planning for major production incidents and outages.
  • Develop recovery strategies for region failures, Kubernetes cluster failures, account compromises, and infrastructure loss.
  • Implement recovery using Infrastructure as Code, backups, replication, and automation.
Required Qualifications
  • 4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Engineering.
  • Expert-level Kubernetes administration experience.
  • Strong hands-on experience with AWS EKS and/or Azure AKS.
  • Deep understanding of Argo CD and GitOps principles.
  • Strong experience with GitHub Actions and CI/CD automation.
  • Advanced knowledge of Git branching and release management.
  • Strong AWS architecture and cloud operations experience.
  • Expert-level Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience.
  • Strong Docker and containerization experience.
  • Linux system administration experience.
  • Strong understanding of cloud networking and security.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Azure cloud experience.
  • Service Mesh experience.
  • Multi-cloud deployment experience.
  • Datadog or similar observability platform experience.
  • Python, Go, Shell scripting, or other automation development experience.
  • Strong Platform Engineering experience.
 

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