Cloud Platform Engineer role at Alight involves designing, building, and operating secure, scalable, and highly automated cloud platforms on AWS. Ideal for engineers who enjoy hands-on delivery and contributing to technical direction.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering skills in Python (preferred) and Bash.
- 3+ years of experience in software development, cloud engineering, or DevOps roles.
- Hands-on experience building and operating AWS-based systems using services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, and Lambda.
- Experience using Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible).
- Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines in production environments.
- Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.
- Working knowledge of AWS networking and security, including troubleshooting connectivity issues, defining security group rules, applying least-privilege IAM policies, and partnering with network and security engineers.
Benefits
- Flexible Working
- Comprehensive benefits package, including health coverage options, wellbeing and support programs, retirement, vacation and sick leave, maternity, paternity & adoption leave, continuing education and training, and voluntary benefit options.
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
- 401(k) matching
