Cloud Platform Engineer

Salary: $100,000 - 180,000 per year Requirements: Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience. CompTIA Security+ certification, or ability to obtain it within the first 60 days. AWS certification, or ability to obtain one within the first 90 days. At least 3 years of progressively responsible experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure automation, systems engineering, or a related technical field. Hands-on experience designing, deploying, supporting, and troubleshooting AWS environments. Experience with core AWS services, including EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, security groups, RDS, EFS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Systems Manager. Hands-on experience with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or another Infrastructure as Code technology. Experience developing, maintaining, or troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, or similar platforms. Production experience with Docker and at least one container platform, such as Amazon ECS/Fargate or Amazon EKS/Kubernetes. Experience developing automation using Python, Shell, PowerShell, or a similar scripting language. Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues across infrastructure, deployments, networking, permissions, and containerized workloads. Ability to contribute to technical solution design and communicate recommendations, tradeoffs, and implementation approaches. Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document technical processes and communicate with technical and nontechnical stakeholders. Preferred: Experience with both Amazon ECS/Fargate and Amazon EKS/Kubernetes. Preferred: Experience with Terraform modules, remote state, workspaces, providers, and reusable Infrastructure as Code patterns. Preferred: Experience with Git-based development workflows, branching strategies, merge requests, pull requests, and code reviews. Preferred: Experience with Kubernetes tools and concepts such as Helm, namespaces, ingress, service networking, storage, autoscaling, and container registries. Preferred: Experience supporting secure environments subject to federal, Public Trust, NIST, DoD, or similar compliance requirements. Preferred: Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, or Grafana. Preferred: Experience with AWS networking, load balancing, DNS, identity, security controls, or hybrid connectivity. Preferred: Experience administering Linux or Windows servers in cloud or enterprise environments. Preferred: Experience with Active Directory or LDAP-based identity solutions. Preferred: Experience integrating generative AI services, APIs, or AI-assisted tools into cloud applications, engineering workflows, automation, or operational platforms. Preferred: AWS Associate, Specialty, or Professional-level certification. Preferred: Experience leading technical solutioning discussions with customers or stakeholders. Responsibilities: Design, implement, operate, and improve secure AWS hosting solutions for development, test, and production environments. Collaborate with cloud engineers, solutions architects, cybersecurity professionals, application teams, and customer stakeholders to develop and implement technical solutions. Translate technical and customer requirements into practical cloud infrastructure, deployment, and hosting solutions. Build, maintain, and improve reusable Infrastructure as Code patterns using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar technologies. Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated build, testing, security scanning, deployment, and release workflows. Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot containerized workloads using Docker, Amazon ECS/Fargate, and Amazon EKS/Kubernetes. Support container platforms, including workload deployment, configuration, networking, storage, scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting. Develop scripts, tools, and automation using Python, Shell, PowerShell, or similar technologies to reduce manual effort and improve consistency. Turn recurring operational issues into reusable automation, platform capabilities, or standardized deployment patterns. Support AWS-hosted environments through troubleshooting, incident response, planned maintenance, technical escalations, and production support. Troubleshoot infrastructure, operating system, networking, permissions, database, pipeline, container, and deployment issues. Support cloud platform services for monitoring, logging, access control, configuration management, patching, backup, and security. Work with cybersecurity and compliance teams to align infrastructure and automation with customer, federal, and organizational requirements. Research and recommend tools, technologies, and engineering practices that improve platform reliability, automation, security, and developer experience. Create and maintain technical designs, implementation plans, deployment procedures, runbooks, reusable patterns, and operational documentation. Participate in a rotating on-call schedule, typically for approximately one week every four months. Technologies: AI AWS Active Directory CI/CD Cloud CloudWatch DevOps Docker EC2 Git GitHub GitLab Grafana Helm IAM Support Jenkins Kubernetes LDAP Linux Load Balancing PowerShell Prometheus Python Security Terraform Windows More: At Credence, we help clients address mission-critical needs through technology, providing AI/ML, enterprise modernization, and advanced intelligence solutions to major defense and health federal organizations. Our partnerships support mission success and national security. We are privately held, have repeatedly been recognized as a top place to work, and have appeared on the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest Growing Private Companies for 12 consecutive years. We practice servant leadership and focus on the success of our clients, team members, and partners. We are seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer for hands-on work supporting secure AWS hosting environments for Department of War customers across the cloud hosting lifecycle. The anticipated salary range is $100,000–$180,000, depending on experience, technical depth, certifications, and qualifications. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage; retirement plans; life insurance; paid time off and holidays; family leave; short- and long-term disability; training and development; and wellness resources. last updated 41 week of 2026