Job Description
Job Title: Platform Engineer / DevOps Engineer AWS Certification (Must Have)
Location: 100% Remote Occasional travel to Princeton, NJ (every 3 6 months if needed) East Coast candidates only
Duration: Full-Time Permanent
Salary: $Market/Annum + Benefits
Eligibility: Open to US Citizens, Green Card Holders (No C2C / No Third Parties)
Certification Required: AWS Certified (DevOps Engineer Associate or Solutions Architect Associate)
Role Summary:
This is a hands-on Platform Engineer / DevOps Engineer position focused on building, automating, and modernizing AWS cloud infrastructure. Initially, the work is heavily centered on DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, AWS operations, and deployment automation, with a path toward broader Platform Engineering capabilities (Internal Developer Platforms, self-service tooling, developer enablement).
Key Focus Areas:
AWS cloud infrastructure design and operations
DevOps and CI/CD automation
Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
Containerization and orchestration with ECS/Fargate
Platform reliability, security, and observability
Application modernization (On-Prem AWS)
Required Technical Skills:
AWS: EC2, ECS, ECR, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch
Containers: Docker
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
Source Control / CI/CD: GitHub, GitHub Actions
Programming: Python preferred
Monitoring/Logging: CloudWatch, Datadog
Core Responsibilities:
Conduct architecture and deployment readiness reviews
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
Automate application deployments in AWS
Deploy/manage workloads on AWS ECS Fargate
Provision and monitor AWS infrastructure
Maintain Terraform-based infrastructure
Perform code reviews and enforce engineering standards
Implement security and compliance controls
Troubleshoot incidents and perform root cause analysis
Support application modernization initiatives
Ideal Candidate Profile:
4+ years as DevOps Engineer / Platform Engineer / Cloud Engineer
Strong AWS production experience
Experience collaborating with application, infrastructure, security, and business teams
Comfortable with incident response and production support
Experience building scalable, repeatable deployment pipelines