AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

Role- AWS Cloud Platform Engineer Duration- 3 Months Location- Miami, FL Required Skills Seeking senior level AWS DevOps Engineers who have a commercial banking background and have specific experience building out an AWS cloud landing zone. AWS certifications are a must – Santander team will not consider any candidates without the certs. Needs to sit hybrid on-site in Miami, Dallas or Boston Overview: The Cloud Platform Engineer is a skilled technical professional responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining cloud-based systems and infrastructure within a specific cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). This role focuses on building and optimizing the technical foundation that supports applications, services, and data in the cloud environment. Responsibilities: • Cloud Infrastructure Design: Collaborate with architects and development teams to design cloud infrastructure that meets scalability, performance, security, and availability requirements. • Infrastructure Deployment: Implement cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation), ensuring consistency and repeatability of deployments. • Platform Services Management: Set up and configure cloud services such as virtual machines, containers, databases, networking components, and other resources required for application deployment. • Automation and Orchestration: Coordinate with DevOps Teams to develop and maintain automation scripts and workflows to streamline provisioning, configuration, and management of cloud resources. • Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Implement monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of cloud infrastructure. Troubleshoot and resolve issues as they arise. • Security and Compliance: Implement security best practices, access controls, and compliance measures to safeguard data and resources within the cloud environment. • Scalability and Performance Optimization: Optimize cloud infrastructure to handle varying workloads, ensuring optimal performance and responsiveness. • CI/CD Integration: Collaborate with DevOps teams to integrate cloud infrastructure with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. • Backup and Disaster Recovery: Design and implement backup and disaster recovery strategies to ensure data protection and business continuity. • Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Maintain clear and comprehensive documentation of cloud infrastructure, configurations, and procedures. Share knowledge with team members and stakeholders. • Vendor Management: Stay updated on the latest cloud platform features, updates, and services. Evaluate and recommend new services that align with business needs. Core Requirements: • 3-5 years hands on experience • Infra As Code • AWS Cloud Landing Zone • AWS Cloud top 50 Services • AWS Certification • Engineering mindset (solution oriented), being pragmatic in finding how to test, how to solve • Experience in banking, regulated environment and understand what compliance / evidence entails for the cloud Engineering • Communication skills, able to describe why a test case failed, what the risk is, how to remediate • Working ability and expertise on writing AWS IaC, SCPs, managed rules, guardrails, … hands-on approach, delivering code Nice to haves: • Stakeholder management & communication skills • Risk & Control mitigation expertise • Fluent English is a must- but Spanish proficiency is a nice to have -- ---- Thanks & Regards, Tejash - Technical Recruiter Thought wave Software and Solutions 314 N. Lake St, Suite 6, Aurora IL 60506 Desk: 6304918494 EXTN: 157 Email :tejash@thoughtwavesoft.com Website:www.thoughtwavesoft.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/tejash-chettipalli-342aa2246 A Certified Minority Business Enterprise, Disadvantaged Business Enterprise, SAM.gov, SOC2 & ISO2005, Vendors for: · STATES: IL, PA, TN, AK, OR, CT, GA, VA, ID, IA, UT, FL, MN & CO · NATIONAL LABS: ARGONNE & FERMI · COUNTIES: HENNEPIN, MN, FULTON & GA · PUBLIC SCHOOLS: ATLANTA. SECURITY NOTICE: This communication, including any accompanying document(s), is for the sole use of the intended recipient and may contain confidential information. Unauthorized use, distribution, disclosure or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on this communication is prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender (admin@thoughtwavesoft.com) by return e-mail or telephone (630-448-6681) and permanently delete or destroy all electronic and hard copies of this e-mail.