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Cloud Platform Engineer - AWS, Terraform - Optum
Devops Engineer
Design, build, and manage scalable AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform, ensuring high availability, security, and cost efficiency for a global health technology platform.
About the role
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and implement AWS services (EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM) using Terraform for automated, repeatable deployments.
- Collaborate with development and security teams to enforce best practices, compliance, and governance across the cloud environment.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize infrastructure performance, cost, and resilience using CloudWatch, X-Ray, and custom dashboards.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure changes, integrating with Git, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions.
- Document architecture, processes, and runbooks to support knowledge transfer and incident response.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience designing and operating AWS infrastructure at scale.
- Proficiency with Terraform, including module creation, state management, and version control.
- Strong understanding of networking, security, and cost‑management best practices in AWS.
- Experience with CI/CD tooling and scripting (Bash, Python).
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.