Senior Platform Engineer - AWS/DevOps
First seen by Alion on Oct 29, 2026.
Role Description :
We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer with deep AWS and DevOps expertise to join our Platform Engineering Squad within the Data organization. Our team builds and operates secure, scalable, and reusable platform capabilities for Data Engineering, Analytics, and business-facing data teams.
What you will do :
- Design, build, and operate secure, scalable, and highly available AWS platform infrastructure.
- Develop and maintain reusable Terraform modules for networking, compute, containers, serverless applications, security, monitoring, and identity services.
- Build and maintain CI/CD capabilities for infrastructure, microservices, containerized applications, serverless workloads, and platform components.
- Develop reusable libraries, APIs, command-line tools, templates, and automation, primarily in Python or Groovy.
- Improve developer productivity by removing deployment bottlenecks and delivering secure self-service capabilities.
Tech Stack & Requirements :
- 8+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, cloud engineering, or site reliability engineering.
- Hands-on experience designing and operating production workloads on AWS.
- Strong experience with Terraform, including reusable module development and state management.
- Strong experience with AWS compute, container (ECS/Fargate), serverless, and networking services (VPC, IAM, CloudWatch).
- Strong programming or automation skills in Python or Groovy.
- Strong experience maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub, Maven, or Docker.
- Strong Git knowledge, including branching strategies and release management.
Skills
AWS, DevOps, IAC Terraform, AWS Infrastructure, Cloud Services, CI/CD Pipeline, Python, Groovy/Grails, IT Automation