About the role
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer
Irvine, CA (Hybrid)
12+ Month Contract
JPC - 20461
Solugenix is assisting a client, a prestigious and large investment management company, in
their search for a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer. This is a 12+ month contract
opportunity based out of Irvine, CA (Hybrid).
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable,
secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure. Focus on platform enablement,
infrastructure automation, CI/CD, event-driven streaming, and operational excellence
across multi-account AWS environments — empowering engineering teams through selfservice tooling and reliable, well-governed cloud foundations.
Irvine, CA (Hybrid)
12+ Month Contract
JPC - 20461
Solugenix is assisting a client, a prestigious and large investment management company, in
their search for a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer. This is a 12+ month contract
opportunity based out of Irvine, CA (Hybrid).
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable,
secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure. Focus on platform enablement,
infrastructure automation, CI/CD, event-driven streaming, and operational excellence
across multi-account AWS environments — empowering engineering teams through selfservice tooling and reliable, well-governed cloud foundations.
What you'll do
- Responsibilities:
- • Design and operate scalable, highly available, multi-account cloud infrastructure
- (AWS).
- • Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code modules and standards using Terraform.
- • Develop reusable platform patterns, landing zones, and golden paths for
- engineering teams.
- • Optimize and operate CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Harness).
- • Enable developer self-service and reduce manual intervention through automation.
- • Manage Kubernetes platforms (EKS) networking, scaling, upgrades, and workload
- onboarding.
- • Operate and support Kafka-based event streaming platforms — topics, schemas,
- connectors, and cluster reliability.
- • Build and integrate REST APIs and self-service tooling to streamline platform
- workflows.
- • Implement cloud security and governance (IAM, OAuth/OIDC, OKTA, SSL/TLS,
- secrets management).
- • Drive cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, and FinOps practices.
- • Implement observability — metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and SLOs.
- • Lead incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis across platform
- and runtime systems.
- • Partner with application teams to troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment, and
- runtime issues.
- • Drive continuous improvement using operational insights and user feedback.
- • Enhance documentation, runbooks, and platform usability.
What we're looking for
- Must Have Skills:
- • Cloud: AWS (EKS, EC2, VPC/Networking, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda)
- • IaC: Terraform (modules, state management, policy-as-code)
- • CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Harness
- • APIs & Integration: REST APIs (design, development, integration), Async APIs
- • Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS)
- • Security: OAuth, OIDC, OKTA, SSL/TLS, IAM, secrets management
- Desired Skills:
- • Event Streaming: Kafka, Confluent (topics, schemas, Kafka Connect, cluster linking)
- • Monitoring/Observability: Datadog, CloudWatch
- • Programming/Scripting: Java/Python
- Key Competencies:
- • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving across distributed systems.
- • Ability to translate operational issues into durable platform improvements.
- • System-thinking approach to reliability, security, and cost.
- • Effective collaboration and technical mentorship across engineering teams
What we offer
Health insurance
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.
Retirement plans
Robust 401(k) and savings options to help you build a secure financial future.
Paid time off
Generous vacation and sick leave so you have time to rest and recharge.
Ocean Blue is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
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