Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Obra is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to serve as part of an IT-Solutions team supporting our AWS cloud environment.  As a member of the Platform Team, this individual will have the primary responsibility to ensure appropriate architecture, infrastructure enablement, automation, and observability while continuously improving team tools, processes, and procedures.  This position is responsible for developing new solutions & resolving issues using standard AWS tools and best practices in collaboration with the IT team. Other duties include CI/CD support, standards and governance, and collaboration with the Managed Service Provider (MSP) and consulting partners.  The candidate must demonstrate a strong technical knowledge of AWS cloud engineering, enablement and automation.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role that combines engineering, architecture, platform strategy, and governance.   This position is based in the Indianapolis office.

General Responsibilities Include

• Lead and mentor a team to deliver high-quality cloud solutions
• Recognizes, identifies, triages and resolves platform issues; escalates to the appropriate resource where required.
• Performs system and component level configuration, testing, and documentation for platform projects.
• Assists in development of project efforts providing estimates for development and documentation.
• Identifies and recommends methods for improved automation, scalability, better monitoring, and process transparency across all stakeholders.
• Ensure existing standards and methodologies are in place and works together with the development team to identify and implement enhanced standards and methodologies for development practices.
• Provides feedback to the platform team regarding bug fixes, enhancement requests and other issues.
• Recommend strategies, procedures, and new technologies for implementation

Specific Responsibilities Include

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Develop and maintain reusable Terraform or AWS CDK modules for common infrastructure patterns
• Automate provisioning of AWS resources including:

Networking components

•  Compute environments (EKS/ECS/EC2/Lambda)
•  IAM roles and policies

Storage and foundational services

• Ensure all infrastructure is provisioned through code and aligned with platform standards

AWS Platform Enablement

• Help implement and enhance the AWS landing zone including account baselines and guardrails
• Support automation for:
  • Account setup and configuration
  • Logging and monitoring integration
  • Environment bootstrapping for application teams
• Partner with Security to embed guardrails and policies into automation

CI/CD & Developer Experience

• Design and maintain cloud infrastructure pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar
• Enable application teams to deploy infrastructure safely and consistently
• Improve developer experience through self-service patterns and documentation

Platform Standards & Governance

• Implement standards for tagging, cost allocation, and resource naming
• Embed security and compliance controls into infrastructure automation
• Ensure environments are built according to approved architecture patterns

Collaboration with Managed Service Provider (MSP) and Partners

• Work with consulting partners to transition platform automation into internal ownership
• Ensure infrastructure modules and pipelines are documented and maintainable
• Coordinate with the MSP to align automation with operational support models

Observability & Reliability Foundations

• Help automate integration with logging, monitoring, and alerting platforms
• Support platform-level reliability patterns such as multi-AZ deployments

Skills & Experience Required

• Bachelor’s degree in information management, computer sciences or technically related area
• 4+ years of experience in cloud engineering or platform engineering roles
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS
• Experience building infrastructure using Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation
• Experience designing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployments
• Understanding of AWS networking, IAM, and core cloud architecture patterns
• Experience working in environments with MSPs or external partners
• Strong understanding of data security, access control, and governance in regulated environments
• Experience working with system integrators or external partners during large platform initiatives

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in insurance, annuities, or financial services
• Experience in regulated industries such as insurance or financial services
• Experience implementing AWS landing zones or multi-account environments
• Familiarity with container platforms (EKS, ECS) and serverless architectures
• Understanding of cloud security best practices and policy-as-code
• AWS certifications (Associate or Professional level) a plus

In addition, the ideal candidate will be or have:

• Strong automation mindset — prefers code over manual configuration
• Able to collaborate across security, data, and application teams
• Comfortable working in a fast-evolving, greenfield cloud environment
• Strong documentation and knowledge-sharing habits
• Pragmatic and delivery-focused
• Results and detail oriented
• Ability to multi-task and execute under pressure
• Internally driven and self-motivated
• Intellectual curiosity, forward-thinking