Centene Corporation
Transforming the health of the communities we serve, one person at a time.
Lead Cloud Platform Engineer
Location
Missouri
Posted
37 days ago
Salary
$102.9K - $190.5K / year
Bachelor Degree5 yrs expExperience acceptedEnglishAWSCloudKubernetesPythonTerraformType ScriptGo
Job Description
• Leads the Cloud Platform Engineering team to design, build, and automate foundational AWS infrastructure and platform services across a multi-account AWS Landing Zone environment
• Guides the team in developing scalable, secure automation solutions using TypeScript, Terraform, and GitLab CI/CD
• Champions infrastructure-as-code best practices, platform standardization, and operational excellence across hybrid cloud environments
• Drives platform innovation while ensuring governance, compliance, and reliability across hundreds of AWS child accounts
• Lead and mentor a team of Cloud Platform Engineers, establishing standards and best practices for AWS platform automation and infrastructure-as-code
• Architect and automate AWS Landing Zone infrastructure using AWS Control Tower, Organizations, and Service Control Policies across large-scale multi-account environments
• Design and implement platform automation solutions using TypeScript, Terraform, and GitLab CI/CD pipelines
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code modules and reusable components using Terraform and CloudFormation StackSets
• Build serverless automation frameworks leveraging Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, and API Gateway
• Establish centralized logging, monitoring, and observability platforms using CloudWatch and related AWS services
• Create self-service platform capabilities and standardized infrastructure patterns for application teams
• Collaborate with Security, Network, and Application teams to ensure platform security, compliance, and operational resilience
• Establish disaster recovery strategies, backup automation, and business continuity planning for platform services
• Evaluate and implement emerging AWS services and cloud-native technologies to enhance platform capabilities
• Provide technical leadership for cloud migration projects and infrastructure modernization efforts
• Ensure compliance with internal governance standards, regulatory requirements, and AWS best practices
Job Requirements
- A Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science)
- 5 – 7 years of related experience
- Deep expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure, services, and architecture patterns
- Strong programming skills in TypeScript for infrastructure automation and platform tooling
- Expert-level proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code and state management
- Knowledge of CloudFormation and StackSets for cross-account deployments
- Hands-on experience with AWS Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, and serverless architectures
- Proven expertise with API Gateway, Route53, VPC, CloudWatch, and S3
- Strong experience with GitLab CI/CD for infrastructure automation pipelines
- Proven leadership and team management capabilities with ability to mentor and develop engineers
- Strong understanding of cloud security, IAM, networking, and compliance requirements
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional certification (preferred)
- Experience with additional programming languages (Python, Go) for automation (preferred)
- Knowledge of Kubernetes/EKS and container orchestration platforms (preferred)
Benefits
- competitive pay
- health insurance
- 401K and stock purchase plans
- tuition reimbursement
- paid time off plus holidays
- flexible approach to work with remote, hybrid, field or office work schedules
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