Platform Engineering Lead/AWS/Atlanta, GA LOCAL at Kelly Services
Atlanta, GA
$175,000–$200,000from the description
Jul 28, 2026
Atlanta, GA
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hybrid (2 days/week in Atlanta) platform engineering leadership role at an early-stage AI cybersecurity startup, responsible for owning and building the AWS/Kubernetes infrastructure underpinning an autonomous multi-agent security operations platform. The split is roughly 60% hands-on engineering — cloud architecture, IaC, CI/CD, observability, incident response — and 40% leadership, with an expectation of growing the platform team over time. Best suited to a senior infrastructure engineer comfortable operating as both a technical lead and individual contributor in a startup environment.
Senior level · 8+ years · Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 150 people in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 110–190
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $135,884 (middle half $106,941–$167,811). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The role sits at the boundary between a senior IC and a people manager: the posting describes it as ~60% hands-on engineering and ~40% leadership with an expectation of eventually growing a team. It was classified as 15-1252 (Software Developers) because the primary day-to-day work is building and shipping infrastructure code, but 11-3021 (Computer and Information Systems Managers) is a genuine runner-up given the explicit leadership and team-building mandate.
Terraform is listed as 'preferred' within the IaC requirement ('Terraform preferred'), but the IaC requirement itself is a hard gate under Required Skills; Terraform is captured as required because the posting firmly gates on deep IaC expertise and names Terraform as the preferred tool — the qualifier signals tool flexibility, not that IaC is optional.
Container orchestration skills are required alongside Kubernetes; Docker is captured as preferred since it is the dominant container runtime in this context but is not named explicitly in the requirements section.
Security certifications (CISSP, CISM, AWS Security Specialty) and an advanced degree appear only under Desired Skills and are marked preferred accordingly.
The posting does not specify a formal degree as a hard requirement; 'Advanced degree' appears only under Desired Skills, so the degree requirement is set to None.
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