Proactive Staffing

AWS Cloud Platform Engineer:  Seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Platform Engineer responsible for AWS Organizations governance, account management, infrastructure automation, security controls, and cloud platform operations. This role will maintain AWS foundational services and support application teams through reusable cloud solutions.

Key Responsibilities

AWS Governance & Multi-Account Management

• Manage AWS Organizations and account structure.
• Implement Service Control Policies (SCPs).
• Support AWS Control Tower and Account Factory processes.
• Establish guardrails and governance standards.
• Manage tagging and account compliance initiatives.

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Regularly maintain GitHub Actions deployment pipelines.
• Automate AWS account provisioning and resource deployment.

Security & Compliance

• Implement IAM best practices and least-privilege access.
• Support security monitoring and remediation.
• Coordinate cloud security assessments.

Cloud Platform Services

• Maintain foundational services including:
• IAM
• S3
• CloudWatch
• KMS
• VPC Endpoints
• Enable application teams with approved reference architectures.

Operations & Reliability

• Troubleshoot platform and networking issues.
• Monitor cloud health, performance, and costs.
• Support incident response and operational excellence initiatives.
• Maintain platform documentation.

Required Skills

• AWS (5+ years)
• AWS Organizations and AWS Control Tower
• IAM / IAM Identity Center
• Networking (VPC, TGW, PrivateLink, security groups, flow logs, AWS Firewall, and ELB)
• CloudWatch
• Terraform
• GitHub Actions
• Cloud security fundamentals
• Strong documentation skills

Preferred Skills

• Account Factory for Terraform (AFT)
• Security Hub
• GuardDuty
• AWS Config
• ECS
• FinOps / Cost Optimization

Nice-to-Have Requirements

• Cloud governance and guardrails
• Infrastructure as Code best practices
• Experience supporting enterprise development teams

Deliverable

• Maintain AWS Organizations and Control Tower.
• Manage SCPs and account provisioning processes.
• Support GitHub Actions infrastructure deployments.
• Improve governance, security, and operational efficiency.

Start: ASAP

Duration: 12+ months

Location: Cherry Hill, NJ area in a Hybrid role (3 days onsite/2 days remote)

Position Type: Contract