Lead Cloud Platform Engineer

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🕒 May 20

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equivant

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1984

🏛️ Government

☁️ SaaS

Government • Legal • SaaS

equivant is a company dedicated to enhancing the justice ecosystem by providing innovative solutions that streamline processes, improve communications, and boost efficiency for justice agencies. With a focus on the entire justice process from incident to outcome, equivant offers resources and expertise tailored to the needs of courts, corrections, and supervision systems, ensuring that all stakeholders have access to necessary information and tools for better decision-making.

📋 Description

• 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 security, asset inventory, and lifecycle management for cloud resources • Own AWS Config and organizational guardrails (Service Control Policies, Control Tower where applicable) to enforce baseline security and compliance across the AWS organization • Design and maintain cloud backup and disaster recovery capabilities to meet defined recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO); lead DR planning and testing • Partner with R&D on architecture, performance, and troubleshooting to ensure the hosting environment evolves with the product and applications run well in a cloud-hosted environment • Build CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices for web servers and web applications, including establishing capability where it’s not yet in place, in partnership with R&D to reduce manual deployment and enable faster, lower-risk releases • Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and SIEM integration (CloudWatch and related tools) for hosted environments • Coordinate with ITSM processes (Jira) for change management, incident response, and request fulfillment • Support compliance with the CJIS Security Policy, AICPA Trust Services Criteria for SOC 2, and other regulatory requirements; maintain technical documentation for cloud architecture, runbooks, and operational procedures • Participate in on-call rotations and support after-hours incident response as needed

🎯 Requirements

• 3-5 years of 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 the FBI CJIS Security Policy and any applicable state or agency requirements, including fingerprint-based background investigation • Possible travel (approximately 5%) • May provide after-hours support for incidents