The ideal candidate has a strong background supporting production AWS environments, provisioning infrastructure through code, resolving complex operational issues, and partnering with application teams to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions. This is a hands-on role focused on AWS infrastructure provisioning, production support, troubleshooting, and migration of on-premise applications into AWS and Amazon EKS environments.

LEAD AWS CLOUD PLATFORM ENGINEER (IaC / SRE)

Location: Remote (United States) | Preference for DMV & East Coast Candidates
Type: Contract (12+ Months)
Pay (W2): USD 109.05/hr
Schedule: 40 Hours/Week | Eastern Time Business Hours (Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM ET)

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JOB OVERVIEW

We are seeking a Lead AWS Cloud Platform Engineer to support enterprise cloud migration and platform engineering initiatives. This is a hands-on role focused on AWS infrastructure provisioning, production support, troubleshooting, and migration of on-premise applications into AWS and Amazon EKS environments.

The ideal candidate has a strong background supporting production AWS environments, provisioning infrastructure through code, resolving complex operational issues, and partnering with application teams to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions.

Lead refers to technical expertise and seniority, not people management responsibilities.

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WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Provision, manage, and support AWS infrastructure across enterprise production environments
• Support migration of on-premise applications to AWS and Amazon EKS
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform
• Perform production support, incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, application, deployment, networking, and security-related issues
• Analyze logs, metrics, and monitoring data to identify and resolve platform issues
• Collaborate with architects, developers, and application teams to deploy and support cloud-based solutions
• Support platform automation, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence initiatives
• Implement and maintain AWS best practices for security, performance, and availability
• Assist with cloud transformation and modernization efforts across the organization
• Strong AWS Experience Required with: EC2, S3, AWS IAM, Security Groups, Amazon VPC, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Networking

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NICE TO HAVE

• Amazon EKS
• Kubernetes
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• AWS CloudFormation and/or AWS CDK
• Ansible
• Python scripting
• Bash scripting
• Database troubleshooting experience
• Enterprise cloud transformation and migration experience
• Exposure to AWS AI services such as:
  • Amazon Bedrock
  • Amazon SageMaker
  • Amazon Kendra
  • RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) solutions
• TriZetto Facets experience
• Experience in large-scale enterprise cloud environments

System One, and its subsidiaries including Joulé and Mountain Ltd., are leaders in delivering outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America. We help clients get work done more efficiently and economically, without compromising quality. System One not only serves as a valued partner for our clients, but we offer eligible employees health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans, as well as participation in a 401(k) plan.

System One is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, family care or medical leave status, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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