Senior Platform Engineer (AWS Focus)

Job summary

The Senior Platform Engineer role focuses on designing and evolving AWS cloud and hybrid-cloud ecosystems for a large FinTech enterprise, enabling AI teams to build and operate applications efficiently. Key responsibilities include deploying AWS AI/ML services, standardizing deployments with Terraform, implementing security controls, and managing API lifecycles using AWS API Gateway.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in the AWS ecosystem.
• Expert-level Terraform skills.
• Deep expertise with Bedrock, EKS, Lambda, EventBridge, API Gateway, IAM, VPC and CloudWatch.
• Direct experience with AWS Bedrock and SageMaker.
• Expert knowledge of VPC design, Subnetting, Route 53, and Direct Connect.
• Hands-on experience with AWS API Gateway or Kong.
• Proven ability to create professional Cloud Architecture Diagrams and provide Solutions Architecture guidance.

Responsibilities

• Design reusable AWS AI platform services as products, contracts and tenancy patterns for multiple AI products.
• Deploy, scale, and manage AWS AI/ML services (Bedrock, SageMaker, Rekognition, Textract, Lookout) to support AI-driven application development.
• Standardize all deployments using Terraform to ensure consistency and modularity.
• Engineer runtime patterns using EKS, Lambda, containers and asynchronous event processing.
• Implement least-privilege IAM, workload identity, secrets management, encryption and private VPC connectivity.
• Manage API lifecycles using AWS API Gateway and Kong, ensuring secure and performant communication between services.
• Proactively manage cloud costs by analyzing SKUs and implementing advanced monitoring/alerting to prevent budget overruns.
• Design automated GitHub Workflows to enable seamless CI/CD for both infrastructure and application code.

Skills

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