Role: Senior AWS Cloud Platform Software Engineer with Terraform Experience
Location: Scottsdale, AZ 85250 (Onsite)--Need locals to AZ or Near by states
Job Summary:
- We are seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Software Engineer with strong software development and cloud platform engineering experience to design and build scalable cloud-native applications and platform services on AWS.
- The ideal candidate should have strong coding experience, automation skills, and deep hands-on experience with Terraform to build reusable infrastructure and platform capabilities.
- This role requires someone who can develop applications and services, not just migrate workloads to the cloud.
Required Skills:
- Strong software engineering / application development experience with ability to build services, APIs, and components
- Proficiency in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or another modern scripting language
- Ability to write scripts, utilities, and automation functions for cloud workflows
- Experience implementing automated testing frameworks (unit, integration, functional testing)
- Hands-on experience building cloud-native applications on AWS
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform (preferred), CloudFormation, or CDK
- Experience with SQL or NoSQL managed database services
- Experience designing applications, platforms, or distributed systems architectures
- Strong hands-on Terraform experience
Responsibilities:
- Design and build cloud-native applications and platform services on AWS
- Develop automation scripts, utilities, and functions to enable platform capabilities and self-service tooling
- Implement automated testing frameworks to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance
- Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
- Architect secure, scalable, and resilient cloud solutions
- Develop internal developer tools, reusable components, and reference architectures
- Collaborate with application teams to improve platform adoption and developer experience
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows
Nice to Have:
- CI/CD pipeline development (CodePipeline, GitLab, Harness, GitHub Actions, etc.)
- DevOps or platform engineering experience
- AWS networking knowledge (VPC, subnets, routing, security groups)
- AWS IAM and security best practices
- Experience with AWS Control Tower / Account Factory
- Experience with containers (ECS/EKS) or serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway)
Key Requirement:
- Candidates must have strong Terraform experience and solid software development skills.
- This role requires building applications and automation tools, not just cloud infrastructure migrations.