AWS Cloud Platform Engineer
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Salary
≈ $130k – $254k per year (Estimated)
Location
In office (Reston)
Seniority
Staff · 10+ years exp
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 9, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 7, 2026.
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Glint Tech Solutions is a women-owned IT staffing and recruiting firm that sources contract and direct-hire talent for enterprise clients, alongside an AI hiring product it markets as Glinto AI. Its postings cover client projects across the United States and Canada, from New York, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara and Reston to Toronto, and some defense roles require an active DoD Secret clearance. Open positions are mostly placements at client companies, including software and DevOps engineers, embedded and field application engineers, product managers, data center cooling sales staff and regulatory reporting analysts.
AWS Cloud Platform Engineer
Location: Hybrid - Reston, VA (Onsite 1x/week; local DC/MD/VA candidates only)
Company Overview
Glint Tech Solutions is a women-owned global staffing and IT recruiting firm connecting top technical talent with leading enterprise clients across the United States.
Project Description
Our client, a leading enterprise healthcare organization, is seeking a Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer to drive cloud-native transformation, platform engineering, and automation initiatives within a large-scale AWS environment. This is a hands-on SME-level role requiring deep expertise in EKS-based provisioning, infrastructure as code, and SRE principles.
Note: Video interview followed by an in-person F2F interview is required.
Key Responsibilities
- Communicate architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies, balancing short-term trade-offs against long-term commitments and costs
- Drive end-to-end lifecycle of services from inception and design through deployment and operations
- Establish cloud-native automation capabilities to improve developer experience
- Support system design consulting, platform/framework development, capacity planning, and launch reviews
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and engage directly with internal customers
- Lead migration of legacy applications to microservices architecture hosted on AWS
- Leverage cloud-native components including containers, immutable infrastructure, microservices, and service mesh to build highly available and fault-tolerant systems
- Automate end-to-end patching, upgrades, and maintenance of the AWS cloud ecosystem
- Monitor and manage stability, availability, and performance across enterprise systems (systems, network, storage, security)
- Make data-driven recommendations to improve software delivery efficiency
- Mentor peers and socialize engineering solutions across teams
Mandatory Skills
- Minimum 10 years of overall IT experience, with at least 5 years in AWS Cloud
- SME-level expertise in platform engineering and administration, with hands-on EKS-based provisioning via automation
- Minimum one active AWS certification required
- Strong hands-on knowledge of AWS services: VPC, Networking, Direct Connect, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups, EC2, S3, IAM, ELBs, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EKS
- Hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible playbooks, and Python (Boto3/Lambda functions)
- Experience with AWS CloudFormation and CDK
- Proficiency in Linux Bash scripting and Linux system administration
- 3+ years with Kubernetes/containerization and DevOps toolchain (Jenkins, Ansible, Artifactory, Bitbucket, etc.)
- Solid CI/CD pipeline experience and IaC/automated provisioning practices
- Experience with SRE principles and transformation initiatives
- Strong leadership experience driving cloud transformation programs
- Basic AI exposure or experience required
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Hands-on production experience with Amazon EKS
- Familiarity with Git/repo, Crucible, and other DevOps tooling
- Experience with enterprise cloud migration and modernization efforts
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