Senior AWS Platform Engineer

Job overview

The Senior AWS Platform Engineer role is hybrid in Reston, VA, with compensation of $145,000–$165,000 per year. CertiPath develops high-assurance digital identity and access management solutions to enable secure, trusted access. The engineer leads the design and operation of secure AWS EKS infrastructure and CI/CD systems, supporting production cloud services and the company’s IVIP production cloud services. The role combines hands-on platform engineering with technical leadership across reliability, security, automation, and architecture.

What you'll do

• Design, provision, and maintain production AWS EKS clusters using infrastructure as code
• own production service reliability, availability, performance, and security, including on-call rotation and off-hours incident response
• deploy and scale GitHub Actions runners
• implement security controls
• maintain Terraform, Helm, and Kubernetes manifests
• support hybrid AWS and on-premises networking
• monitor platform performance and resource use.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior aws platform engineer

reston va

hybrid

certipath

full-time

aws eks

kubernetes

ci/cd

terraform

github actions

cloud security

on-call rotation

$145k–$165k

government clearance

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• HSA options
• 401(k) company match
• company-paid life, AD&D, and disability coverage
• unlimited PTO, holidays, year-end break, flexible hours, employee discounts, and professional development.

Why this role

The posting explicitly includes an on-call rotation and off-hours incident response; U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a government clearance are required.

About the employer

CertiPath Inc is hiring for this role. Industry: Engineering Services. Sector: 54.