Cloud Platform Engineer - Virtual

Cloud Platform Engineer

Amazing Opportunity and Great Place to Work!

Are you a fast learner who is fascinated by technology?

At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to “Be Alight.”

It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose. Alight helps clients gain a benefits advantage while building a healthy and financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health, wealth, wellbeing, absence management and navigation.

With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work.

Join us if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight.

Learn more at

“This role supports services provided to the federal government or federal government contractor and therefore requires US Citizenship. Proof of citizenship status will be required at time of hire.”

We are seeking engineers to help design, build, and operate secure, scalable, and highly automated cloud platforms on AWS. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy both hands‑on delivery and contributing to technical direction through thoughtful design and ownership.

Successful candidates will be assessed during the hiring process and placed into either a Cloud Engineering or Dev Ops Engineering role based on skills, experience, and interests. You will work with modern cloud technologies, automation, and AI‑assisted tooling in a collaborative environment that values ownership, learning, and technical excellence.

• Design, implement, and evolve cloud-native solutions for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment pipelines.
• Own production systems end-to-end, including design decisions, implementation, operational reliability, and iterative improvement.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code using tools such as Terraform, Cloud Formation, and Ansible.
• Design, implement, optimize, and own CI/CD pipeline tooling for application and infrastructure deployments using tools such as Git Hub Actions or Jenkins.
• Design, implement, and own high‑quality, maintainable code in a modern language like Python, and author reliable Bash or Power Shell scripts.
• Use AI‑assisted development tools (e.g., Git Hub Copilot) and contribute to internal platforms that enable teams to build and deploy AI‑enabled solutions using AWS Bedrock and Watson
  
  X.
• Implement observability, monitoring, and alerting to ensure system reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Embed security into infrastructure and delivery workflows by applying Dev Sec Ops  practices such as least‑privilege access, secure defaults, and automated policy enforcement.
• Collaborate effectively with application, platform, network, and security teams, clearly communicating requirements, tradeoffs, and design decisions.
• Maintain clear documentation and proactively explore and apply emerging technologies in cloud, Dev Ops, and AI.

• Strong software engineering skills in Python (preferred) and Bash. Experience with Web development, Java, JavaScript, and/or Power Shell desirable.
• 3+ years of experience in software development, cloud engineering, or Dev Ops roles.
• 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, Cloud Formation, 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…