Job Title: AWS/EKS Platform Engineer Location: Reston, VA (Hybrid — 1 day/week onsite; only local candidates will be considered)
Company Overview Our client is a leading enterprise healthcare organization undertaking a major cloud transformation and platform modernization initiative.
Project Description We are seeking an AWS Platform Engineer for a long-term contract position supporting our client in the Reston, VA area (candidates based in DC, MD, or VA preferred). This role covers the full service lifecycle — inception, design, deployment, and operations — with a strong focus on cloud-native automation, EKS provisioning, and enterprise cloud transformation.
Key Responsibilities
- Communicate architectural decisions, plans, and strategies, balancing short-term trade-offs with long-term commitments
- Engage in and improve the end-to-end lifecycle of services, from inception and design through deployment and operations
- Establish automation capabilities leveraging cloud-native solutions to improve the developer experience
- Support system design consulting, platform/framework development, capacity planning, and launch reviews
- Troubleshoot difficult issues and engage directly with the customer
- Drive systems scalability and sustainability through automation and reliability improvements
- Lead enterprise cloud transformation and migration efforts
- Guide customers on cloud-native design and architecture patterns
- Provide consultation on technology infrastructure planning and engineering
- Establish strategies to migrate legacy applications into microservices hosted on AWS
- Leverage containers, immutable infrastructure, microservices, and service mesh to build highly available, fault-tolerant applications
- Research global technology trends and their applicability to internal development teams and business initiatives
- Promote modern application design and engineering best practices across the development and operations lifecycle
- Monitor and manage stability, availability, and performance across enterprise systems and platforms (systems, network, storage, security)
- Automate end-to-end processes for patching and upgrading the AWS cloud ecosystem
- Make data-driven recommendations to improve software delivery efficiency
- Mentor peers and collaborate across teams to socialize solutions
Mandatory Skills
- Minimum of one AWS certification required
- 10+ years of IT experience, including at least 5 years in AWS Cloud, with SME-level knowledge of provisioning via automation using EKS
- AI experience required
- Strong leadership experience driving transformation initiatives
- Experience with SRE principles and transformation