Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

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Senior Cloud Platform Engineer responsible for AWS infrastructure and platform architecture for IoT solutions. Leading critical technical initiatives and collaborating with engineering teams.

Posted 5/26/2026full-timeRemote • Alabama, Ohio • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDNSTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure primarily in AWS
Architect and operate highly reliable APIs, web services, and data ingestion pipelines
Lead infrastructure standardization using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and related tooling)
Design and optimize event-driven and queue-based systems for high-volume telemetry and distributed processing workloads
Develop scalable and secure serverless and containerized architectures where appropriate
Establish infrastructure best practices for: reliability, observability, disaster recovery, security, cost optimization, deployment automation
Support compliance initiatives including SOC2 and GDPR requirements
Design and maintain secure networking architectures, IAM strategies, and secrets management practices
Collaborate with firmware, backend, AI, and product engineering teams to support platform scalability and operational excellence
Evaluate and recommend appropriate database technologies based on workload requirements and tradeoffs
Improve CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows
Participate in operational troubleshooting and incident response for production systems

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of professional software and infrastructure engineering experience
Deep hands-on AWS experience operating production systems at scale
Strong experience designing and maintaining cloud-native infrastructure
Significant experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
Strong understanding of distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and event-driven architectures
Experience building and operating data ingestion pipelines using queues, streams, and serverless services
Strong understanding of networking, security, IAM, DNS, TLS, and API architecture
Experience supporting SOC2-compliant environments and familiarity with GDPR requirements
Strong understanding of database technologies and architectural tradeoffs including: relational databases, time-series databases, object storage systems, caching systems
Excellent communication and technical leadership skills

Benefits

Comp & perks

Attractive base salary with a strong history of profit sharing
Opportunities for professional advancement and development

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Hard Skills & Tools

AWSInfrastructure as CodeTerraformAPIsdata ingestion pipelinesserverless architecturescontainerized architecturesCI/CDnetworkingdatabase technologies

Soft Skills

communicationtechnical leadership