Lead Cloud Platform Engineer

Requirements

• Job Summary: We are looking for a Lead Cloud Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate the AWS hosting environments that power equivant’s court SaaS products.
• You will work closely with R&D, Security, Compliance, and Technical Services teams to meet deployment, performance, availability, and scalability goals, and to support compliance with the AICPA Trust Services Criteria for SOC 2 and the CJIS Security Policy. Job Description:
• Responsibilities Lead a small team of cloud engineers building and maintaining AWS hosting environments for equivant’s SaaS products; set technical direction, mentor team members, and prioritize team workload Design, implement, and optimize AWS infrastructure to meet deployment, availability, performance, scalability, and cost goals Automate the deployment of customer environments using infrastructure as code Manage core AWS services including compute, DB, storage, networking, IAM, and security Oversee
• experience in cloud engineering, systems administration, or related roles, including 2+ years leading or mentoring engineers Relevant AWS certification (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer, or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer) Strong hands-on
• experience with AWS core services (EC2, RDS, S3, VPC/networking, IAM) and multi-account AWS environments
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred; CloudFormation or similar) Ability to understand application architecture and collaborate effectively with R&D to improve how applications run in a cloud-hosted environment Familiarity with security, asset, and lifecycle management for cloud resources Familiarity with ITSM platforms such as Jira Competency with scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash, etc.)
• Experience building or expanding DevOps practices and CI/CD tooling, including in environments where these practices were not already established Ability to work independently and collaboratively across cross-functional teams (R&D, Security, Compliance, Technical Services) Detail-oriented with strong problem-solving abilities and excellent documentation and communication skills, written and verbal, for technical and non-technical audiences The selected candidate must be able to complete vetting required by
• Experience with CI/CD tools Hands-on
• experience with monitoring/logging tools
• Experience operating multi-tenant SaaS products at scale Familiarity with the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Security Policy Solid understanding of the AICPA Trust Services Criteria for SOC 2 Proficiency in system administration (Linux/Windows, IIS, Active Directory)