Role description
Lead AWS Platform Engineer
Lead I - DevOps Engineering
Who We Are:
Born digital, UST transforms lives through the power of technology. We walk alongside our clients and partners, embedding innovation and agility into everything they do. We help them create transformative experiences and human-centered solutions for a better world.
UST is a mission-driven group of 29,000+ practical problem solvers and creative thinkers in more than 30 countries. Our entrepreneurial teams are empowered to innovate, act nimbly, and create a lasting and sustainable impact for our clients, their customers, and the communities in which we live.
With us, you'll create a boundless impact that transforms your career-and the lives of people across the world.
Visit us at UST.com.
You Are:
UST is searching for a
Lead AWS Platform Engineer who will define and implement cloud platform standards, reusable patterns, and best practices.
The opportunity:
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AWS Platform Engineering Design, develop, and maintain enterprise AWS cloud platforms.
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Lead cloud adoption, migration, and modernization initiatives.
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Establish highly available, scalable, and resilient cloud architectures.
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Infrastructure Provisioning & Automation Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
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Build automated provisioning frameworks for AWS resources.
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Create reusable infrastructure modules and blueprints.
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Automate environment creation, configuration management, and deployment processes. Implement CI/CD pipelines supporting infrastructure deployments.
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Security & Governance
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Design and implement cloud security controls aligned with enterprise and regulatory requirements.
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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 (SSO), WAF, Shield, KMS, Secrets Manager Lead security assessments, vulnerability remediation, and compliance initiatives. Develop cloud governance standards, policies, and guardrails.
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Networking Design and manage AWS networking architectures across multi-account environments. Implement and support: VPCs Transit Gateway VPN Direct Connect Route 53 Network Firewall Security Groups NACLs Load Balancers (ALB/NLB) Design hybrid cloud and multi-region connectivity solutions.
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Troubleshoot complex networking and connectivity issues.
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Monitoring & Reliability Implement observability and monitoring solutions using: CloudWatch CloudTrail AWS X-Ray Prometheus Grafana Establish operational excellence practices.
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Support incident management, root cause analysis, and performance optimization. Leadership &
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Collaboration Provide technical leadership and mentoring to cloud engineers.
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Partner with Security, Architecture, Infrastructure, and Development teams. Participate in architecture reviews and cloud governance forums.
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Drive platform engineering best practices across the organization.
This position description identifies the
responsibilities
and tasks typically associated with the performance of the position. Other relevant essential functions may be required
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What you
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6 to 7 years of IT infrastructure/platform engineering experience.
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5+ years of hands-on AWS