AWS platform engineer

Title :

DevOps / Platform Engineer

Location:

West Des Moines, IA

Type:

Contract 4 Days On-Site

Required Qualifications

Senior-level AWS platform engineering experience: IAM (roles, policies, OIDC federation), ECR, ECS/Fargate, Secrets Manager / SSM, S3, VPC networking, and CloudWatch.

Working knowledge of Amazon ECS on Fargate: comfortable deploying and running containers, including task definitions, services, networking, IAM task roles, CloudWatch logs, ALB/service discovery patterns, and deployment troubleshooting. Deep day-to-day operations expertise is not required; a solid grasp of the basics is sufficient.

Strong Infrastructure-as-Code skills with Terraform, including provider migration, module authoring, and remote-state backends.

Hands-on CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions (reusable workflows, environments, and OIDC to AWS), including building container build-and-publish and deployment pipelines that deploy into Amazon ECS on Fargate.

Proficient scripting in Bash and Python; the skills ship shell and Python helper scripts that must be ported.

Comfortable reading and modifying automation-oriented repositories, including skill/playbook instructions, shell scripts, Python utilities, Terraform modules, GitHub Actions workflows, and Markdown-based technical documentation.

Azure literacy at a reading level: able to interpret existing ACR, AKS, Key Vault, Managed Identity, and Azure DevOps configuration in order to translate intent to AWS.

Solid Docker and Git / GitHub Enterprise fundamentals.

Preferred Experience

Experience using

Claude Code

or another

agentic coding assistant

in a professional engineering workflow, including critically reviewing AI-generated changes and validating them with tests or evidence.

Experience with Coder,

GitHub Codespaces, devcontainers

, cloud development environments, or similar remote workspace platforms.

Familiarity with

AWS Blocks, AWS CDK, or similar infrastructure-from-code toolkits

(TypeScript/Node), and the judgment to know when adopting them beats a one-to-one port.

Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) and OIDC identity-federation experience.

Exposure to data platforms such as

Snowflake, Redshift, or AWS Glue

.

Financial services or insurance industry experience

.