Job Description

We're seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Platform Engineer to lead hands-on delivery across our AWS footprint-especially around platform engineering, security guardrails, automation, reliability, and cloud-native modernization . In this role, you'll partner with cloud engineers and technology teams to design and operate scalable, secure, production-grade AWS platforms. You'll help drive enterprise cloud transformation, improve developer experience through automation, and mentor engineers across the team.

• Design, implement, and improve AWS platform components with a focus on security, stability, and scalability
• Own and improve the service lifecycle (design, build, deploy & operate)
• Build automation using cloud-native services to improve developer experience and delivery speed
• Support cloud transformation and migration of legacy applications (including microservices approaches)
• Apply modern cloud-native patterns: containers, immutable infrastructure, service mesh, fault-tolerant design
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code and "provision with code only" best practices
• Strengthen observability, performance, and audit readiness across environments
• Troubleshoot incidents, support root cause analysis, and improve standard operating procedures
• Mentor team members and help set engineering best practices across development and operations

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, or related field (In lieu of a degree: additional relevant experience may be considered)
• 10+ years of relevant IT / systems engineering experience, including hands-on engineering
• 5+ years of AWS-focused cloud engineering, automation, and administration
• AWS certification required (at least one), such as: AWS Certified Solutions Architect, and/or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
• Strong experience with AWS core services , such as:
  • Networking: VPC, subnets, security groups/NACLs, Direct Connect
  • Core: EC2, S3, RDS, IAM
  • Audit/monitoring: CloudTrail, CloudWatch
  • Containers/serverless: EKS, Lambda (ECS a plus)
• Strong skills in Infrastructure as Code / automation , including at least one of: Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, Ansible plus scripting (Python strongly preferred)
• Experience with CI/CD and release automation patterns and tools
• Linux administration + strong Bash scripting
• Strong communication skills and the ability to lead/drive technical decisions and transformations

• 3 5 years in an SRE-aligned role (principles, reliability transformation)
• Exposure to Azure or Google Cloud
• Experience with service mesh (e.g., Istio / AWS App Mesh) and container networking (CNI)
• Container security tooling (Twistlock/Prisma, Aqua, Sysdig, etc.)
• Observability tooling (New Relic, AppDynamics, Datadog, Jaeger, etc.)
• AWS AI/GenAI patterns (e.g., Amazon Kendra, Bedrock, RAG )
• Agile/Scrum environment experience

For applications and inquiries, contact:hirings@openkyber.com

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