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S5 Analytics · 5 days ago

Platform Engineer

Aurora, Colorado, USA, 80011

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$158K/yr - $228K/yr

4+ years exp

S5 Analytics is an innovative company focused on providing cutting-edge solutions in cloud computing. The Platform Engineer will be responsible for designing, building, and operating AWS-based platforms to ensure reliability, security, and efficiency in delivering services.

Defense & Space

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Own the reliability, security, and velocity of our AWS-based platforms

Design and evolve multi-account AWS Landing Zones (Control Tower/SCPs), VPC architectures, and secure networking (Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, VPC Endpoints, Route 53, ALB/NLB)

Build everything as code using Terraform/OpenTofu or AWS CDK; enforce drift detection, reviews, and automated testing

Operate EKS/ECS and Lambda platforms; define golden images, Helm charts, and deployment patterns (blue/green, canary)

Own pipelines (GitLab CI/Jenkins/GitHub Actions/Argo CD) for infra and app delivery; implement reusable templates and policy checks

Implement metrics, logs, and traces (CloudWatch, OpenSearch, Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry); set SLOs, SLIs, alerts, and runbooks

Apply least-privilege IAM, key management (KMS), secrets (SM/SSM), GuardDuty/Inspector controls; support ATO/IATT, FedRAMP/DoD SRG, STIG-aligned baselines

Provide managed patterns for S3, DynamoDB/RDS, API Gateway, Step Functions, SQS/SNS, OpenSearch, CloudFront

Drive capacity planning, cost optimization, backup/DR, chaos/ game days, and incident response with postmortems that fix root causes

Build self-service portals, templates, and docs; streamline onboarding and reduce time-to-first-deploy

Qualification

AWSInfrastructure as CodeCI/CDSecurity & ComplianceObservabilityPythonTerraformNetworkingOn-call operationsCost governanceDeveloper ExperienceDoD/IC program experienceCertifications