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