We are seeking an experienced AWS Platform Engineer with strong expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD practices. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable AWS environments while ensuring high availability, security, and operational efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain highly available AWS-based platform infrastructure.
- Manage containerized applications running on Amazon ECS (EC2 and/or Fargate).
- Troubleshoot production incidents involving application performance, latency, availability, and infrastructure failures.
- Monitor and optimize ECS clusters, Auto Scaling Groups, load balancers, and cloud resources.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent).
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments and releases.
- Configure and manage observability platforms including logging, monitoring, alerting, and dashboards.
- Perform root cause analysis (RCA) for production incidents and implement preventive measures.
- Collaborate with development teams to improve application reliability, scalability, and deployment practices.
- Implement cloud security, governance, and operational best practices.
- Drive platform automation and reduce manual operational activities.
Required Skills & Experience
- 5+ years of experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer, or SRE.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS services including:
- ECS
- EC2
- ALB/NLB
- CloudWatch
- Auto Scaling
- IAM
- VPC Networking
- Experience managing containerized applications using Docker and ECS/Kubernetes.
- Strong understanding of application performance troubleshooting, memory management, and resource optimization.
- Experience investigating production incidents involving:
- High latency
- 5xx errors
- Application crashes
- Memory leaks
- Capacity constraints
- Expertise with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Experience implementing and supporting CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
- Strong scripting skills using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus, or ELK.
Desired Experience
- Experience with production troubleshooting of ECS workloads and container lifecycle management.
- Knowledge of OOM (Out of Memory) analysis, application tuning, and JVM/Container resource optimization.
- Experience with Blue/Green and Canary deployment strategies.
- Exposure to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.
- Experience implementing autoscaling strategies using CPU, memory, and application-level metrics.
- Knowledge of FinOps and cloud cost optimization.
SYNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT
Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.
All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer, or SRE
- Hands-on experience with AWS services including ECS, EC2, ALB/NLB, CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, IAM, and VPC Networking
- Experience managing containerized applications using Docker and ECS or Kubernetes
- Strong understanding of application performance troubleshooting, memory management, and resource optimization
- Experience investigating production incidents involving high latency, 5xx errors, application crashes, memory leaks, and capacity constraints
- Expertise with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation
- Experience implementing and supporting CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps
- Strong scripting skills using Python, Bash, or PowerShell
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus, or ELK
- Production troubleshooting of ECS workloads and container lifecycle management
- Knowledge of OOM analysis, application tuning, and JVM or container resource optimization
- Experience with Blue/Green and Canary deployment strategies
- Exposure to Site Reliability Engineering practices
- Experience implementing autoscaling strategies using CPU, memory, and application-level metrics
- Knowledge of FinOps and cloud cost optimization
Synechron Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is frequently characterized as competitive, particularly relative to large service-consulting peers and in certain in-demand skill areas. Compensation sentiment appears strongest when staffing is stable on strong client engagements and for market-aligned roles in major hubs.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is often portrayed as a strong point in the U.S., with broad coverage and relatively favorable out-of-pocket experiences. Core medical, dental, and vision options are consistently described as meeting or exceeding a baseline expectation for consulting roles.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity was made broadly accessible through a company-wide RSU grant tied to a major revenue milestone. This is positioned as a notable upside even if it is framed as a one-time recognition event rather than an ongoing program.
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