Platform Engineer AWS (IT) / Freelance

Job summary

The role builds and evolves a shared cloud platform above AWS, providing reusable services for specialized platform teams such as Data Platform and ML Platform. Responsibilities include developing Python tooling and user-facing CLIs, managing multi-account AWS infrastructure with Terraform, and standardizing CI/CD through Jenkins and GitLab CI. The role also improves FinOps tooling and developer experience, including AWS development environments, GPU compute, package registries, and code assistants.

Qualifications

• At least 8 years of software development and DevOps or Platform Engineering experience, including at least 5 years using AWS in production.
• Experience with AWS IAM, permission boundaries, cross-account access, deployment roles, VPC, EC2, EKS or ECS, S3, Lambda, KMS, CloudWatch, and Cost Explorer.
• Knowledge of AWS networking and hybrid on-premises/cloud connectivity.
• Terraform experience, including reusable modules and state management.
• Python experience for tooling and CLIs, plus Bash and Unix.
• CI/CD and container experience with GitLab CI, Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes deployment, operations, and troubleshooting.
• Ability to facilitate discussions between expert teams and guide them toward shared solutions.
• Product-oriented approach, including gathering needs, writing ADRs, analyzing trade-offs, and measuring adoption.
• Strong documentation, training, and user-support skills.
• Fluent English.

Responsibilities

• Gather requirements from platform teams, determine what to standardize, build shared services, and validate them with users.
• Develop Python user tooling, including CLIs, configuration management, VS Code integration, and connectivity from on-premises devices and services to AWS.
• Evolve the AWS foundation using Terraform, including multi-account governance, manifest-driven stack deployment, and reusable documented modules.
• Standardize CI/CD using Jenkins and GitLab CI, AWS runners, templates, and golden paths.
• Improve FinOps tooling, including the application that calculates researchers' AWS compute consumption.
• Advance the developer experience roadmap, including AWS development environments, base images, package registries, GPU compute, code assistants, and experimentation sandboxes.
• Support adoption through documentation, demonstrations, workshops, pair programming, and ongoing user support.

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