Cloud Platform Engineer (Contract)
About this role
SoftwareONE is hiring a mid-level Cloud Engineer in the software engineering function. The posting calls out experience with AWS, Terraform, Git, CI/CD. Listed education preference: a bachelor's degree or equivalent.
- Role
- Cloud Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Posted
- Jul 8, 2026
Job description
from SoftwareONE careersSoftwareOne is a global provider of software and cloud solutions. With a presence in over 70 countries and more than 12,000 professionals, we help organizations optimize software investments, modernize applications, and unlock the value of cloud, data, and AI.
Our people are at the core of everything we do. We enable collaboration across borders, continuous learning, and opportunities to grow in a fast-evolving technology landscape. Whether your focus is on technology, customer success, or business operations, your ideas matter, and your contributions make a difference.
Join a global team where you can build your skills, work with leading technologies, and make a real impact for our customers.
The role
As a Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer within the Cloud Platform Engineering (CPE) team, you will play a pivotal role in designing and delivering infrastructure products that enable scalable, secure, and efficient cloud operations. These products are built to empower internal teams and customers by abstracting complexity, accelerating cloud adoption, and embedding best practices into reusable, self-service solutions. You will collaborate across the AWS Centre of Excellence (CoE) to drive platform engineering excellence and deliver tangible value through automation and innovation.
- Role and Functions
You will act as a senior technical contributor and mentor, responsible for:
- Leading the design and implementation of AWS infrastructure solutions.
- Driving automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
- Supporting the development and operations lifecycle with a DevOps mindset.
- Applying software engineering principles to platform development.
- Collaborating with product teams to ensure platform alignment with business goals.
- Contributing to the evolution of the CPE team’s technical strategy and delivery model.
- Main Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain infrastructure automation products that enable secure, scalable, and efficient AWS platform capabilities.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, CodePipeline.
- Implement and manage IaC using Terraform.
- Apply software engineering best practices to infrastructure and platform code.
- Design and implement automated testing strategies for infrastructure and platform components.
- Ensure security, compliance, and governance across AWS environments.
- Monitor and optimize cloud infrastructure for performance, reliability, and cost.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to internal knowledge sharing.
What we need to see from you
- Requirements
- Proven experience in AWS cloud engineering roles, ideally in a service provider or CoE context.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and DevOps principles.
- Experience working in agile, product-centric teams.
- Fluency in spoken and written English
- Self-starter with a proactive, problem-solving mindset.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience preferred
- Technical Skills
- Deep expertise in AWS in a multi-account setting.
- Strong Terraform skills.
- Proficiency in Python, Bash.
- Familiarity with GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, or similar tools.
- Experience with AWS security best practices.
- Familiarity with design patterns and clean code principles is a strong plus.
- Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing for infrastructure and platform components.
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional or equivalent is highly desirable.
Job Function
Services