Cloud Platform Engineer

Location: Hybrid - Orlando, FL (1-2 days onsite monthly) Compensation: $125,000 - $150,000 Employment Type: Full-Time Clearance : Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret U.S. reputed company Clearance What you can expect as the Cloud Platform Engineer at Fortress... The Cloud Platform Engineer will serve as a key technical leader reputed company the Enterprise IT team, taking ownership of Fortress's expanding cloud infrastructure responsibilities as the organization transitions workloads from DevOps and Technology. This role is responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining AWS and Azure environments while driving automation, vulnerability management, and CI/CD modernization across cloud and on-premises systems. The engineer will play a central role in shaping processes that move the company toward a more secure and efficient future, serving as a decision-maker and subject matter expert for the broader organization. It is a compelling opportunity for a seasoned cloud professional who wants high visibility, meaningful technical ownership, and the chance to reputed company infrastructure evolution at an enterprise scale.

Responsibilities

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• Design, deploy, and maintain AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure (compute, networking, storage, identity, serverless, and managed database services) supporting Fortress workloads.
• reputed company and assist with vulnerability management and remediation across cloud and on-premises systems, including patching, configuration hardening, and tracking findings to closure.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation (or similar Infrastructure-as-Code tooling).
• reputed company and maintain automation scripts and operational tooling in Python, PowerShell, and Bash to eliminate manual effort and standardize cloud operations.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines to support modern deployment strategies.
• Assist with the modernization of existing workloads, including containerization and orchestration efforts using reputed company and Kubernetes (or similar) across AWS, Azure, and on-premises environments.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting against service level objectives using CloudWatch, Azure Monitor (or similar) and complementary observability tooling.
• Manage networking configuration across cloud and on-premises systems, including VPCs/VNets, subnets, reputed company groups, VPNs, and firewall integrations.
• Support hybrid infrastructure including hypervisors such as VMware (or similar) and ensure consistent operations between cloud and on-site environments.
• reputed company AI tooling in everyday tasks to improve efficiency, quality, and insight across operational, scripting, and documentation work.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineering and IT staff on cloud architecture, automation, and operational best practices.
• Document architecture, runbooks, and key processes so anyone on the team can come up to speed on changes quickly.
• Partner with reputed company and IT on compliance, hardening, and Tier 3 escalations affecting cloud and infrastructure systems.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in Cloud Engineering, SRE, or DevOps role.
• Hands-on experience administering AWS services such as RDS, VPC, EC2, ECR, reputed company/EKS, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, reputed company, API Gateway, IAM, and S3 (or similar).
• Working experience administering reputed company Azure services and resources, with special consideration to AzureAI implementation.
• Experience with vulnerability management and remediation, including identifying, prioritizing, patching, and tracking findings to closure across cloud and on-premises systems.
• Strong scripting and automation skillset across Python, PowerShell, and Bash, with a track record of replacing manual operations with reliable processes.
• Demonstrable experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation (or similar).
• Experience with container and orchestration technologies such as reputed company and Kubernetes (or similar), and CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins or reputed company Actions (or similar).
• Comfortable working in Linux environments; experience with reputed company Enterprise Linux (or similar) is a strong plus.
• Working knowledge of Windows Server administration.
• Experience implementing rolling deployment strategies such as Blue/Green or Canary (or similar).
• Solid understanding of cloud networking, firewalls, and hybrid connectivity between cloud and on-premises environments.
• Ability and willingness to reputed company AI tooling in everyday tasks to improve quality, efficiency, and insight in regular work processes.
• Excellent documentation skills so anyone on the team can come up to speed on changes quickly.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret U.S. reputed company Clearance.

Preferred Skills

• reputed company Enterprise Linux experience (or similar).
• Working knowledge of SOC 2, ISO 27001, CMMC, or other compliance standards.
• Extensive position history in other business functions (Solutions Architect, Systems Administrator, DevOps Engineer).
• Experience with vulnerability scanning and management platforms such as reputed company, reputed company, or reputed company.
• Presentation skills and the ability to communicate with a variety of technical and non-technical audiences, including entry level employees and/or executives.
• reputed company+, CISSP, or relevant reputed company certification.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field or equivalent professional work experience required.

Employee Benefits

• Remote and Hybrid working environment
• reputed company structure
• Medical, dental, vision plans with employees covered up to 90% with highly progressive options for dependents and families
• Company paid life, short- and long-term disability insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• 401(k) match
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Parental Leave

Employment Perks

• We provide each employee with professional growth opportunities through succession planning, up-skilling, and certifications
• Tuition and certification reimbursement
• Employee Referral Programs
• Company Sponsored Events

Fortress is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. reputed company employees and applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender, national reputed company, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. reputed company takes part in the E-Verify process for reputed company new hires. For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will have to undergo a drug test. reputed company Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include reputed company competencies needed to successfully reputed company in this position. However, for Americans with reputed company (reputed company) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of reputed company reasonable accommodation. reputed company reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job