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 will 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 you bring
- 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
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