# Lead AWS Platform Engineer

Lead AWS Platform Engineer The Role UST is searching for an experienced Lead AWS Platform Engineer to design, build, secure, and manage enterprise-scale AWS cloud platforms. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in AWS infrastructure provisioning, cloud security, networking, automation, governance, and platform engineering. What You’ll Do ·AWS Platform Engineering Design, develop, and maintain enterprise AWS cloud platforms. ··Define and implement cloud platform standards, reusable patterns, and best practices. ·Lead cloud adoption, migration, and modernization initiatives. ·Establish highly available, scalable, and resilient cloud architectures. ·Infrastructure Provisioning & Automation ·Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK. ··Build automated provisioning frameworks for AWS resources. ·Security & Governance ·Design and implement cloud security controls aligned with enterprise and regulatory requirements. ·Manage IAM roles, policies, permission boundaries, and least-privilege access models. ··Implement AWS security services including: AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, AWS Config, IAM Identity Center (SS

- **Id**: 4209875
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ust-lead-aws-platform-engineer-2>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Chicago, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T00:39:01Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6643
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance, Retirement plans, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: IT Consulting & Digital Transformation, IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams

## Company

- **Id**: 1774626
- **Name**: UST
- **Domain**: ust.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ust-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: RippleHire

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 76
- **Open postings**: 97
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.979
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 34
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 90000
- **Max**: 135000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 135000

## Technologies

- **Amazon CloudWatch** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS CDK** — Optional: no
- **CloudFormation** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **Incident Management** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **PowerShell** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **VPN** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T00:39:01Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 34
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T02:15:43Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 135000
- **Is top pay**: no

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