Alight Inc. (NYSE: ALIT) is a leading cloud-based human capital technology and services provider
Cloud Platform Engineer
Location
Illinois
Posted
6 days ago
Salary
Not specified
Job Description
Job Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in software development, cloud engineering, or DevOps roles.
- Experience operating automated infrastructure and delivery pipelines at scale.
- Exposure to foundational AI concepts (e.g., LLMs, agentic patterns, RAG) and interest in applying AI to automation, developer tooling, or operational workflows.
- Contributions to open-source projects.
- AWS certification or equivalent cloud credentials.
- software engineering skills in Python (preferred) and Bash.
- Experience with Web development, Java, JavaScript, and/or PowerShell desirable.
- Hands-on experience building and operating AWS-based systems using services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, and Lambda.
- Experience using Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible).
- Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines in production environments.
- Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.
- Working knowledge of AWS networking and security, including troubleshooting connectivity issues, defining security group rules, applying least-privilege IAM policies, and partnering with network and security engineers.
- Ability to impact reliability, scalability, and performance, and make pragmatic tradeoffs in production systems.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence technical outcomes across teams.
- Demonstrated self-directed learning and curiosity—proactively seeking out and applying new technologies and approaches.
- Contributions to open-source projects.
- AWS certification or equivalent cloud credentials.
- Familiarity with multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Experience working in Agile environments (Scrum or Kanban).
Benefits
- Options include a variety of health coverage options
- wellbeing and support programs
- retirement
- vacation and sick leave
- maternity, paternity & adoption leave
- continuing education and training
- a number of voluntary benefit options
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