Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Job summary

The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer role focuses on managing and optimizing cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Render to ensure reliability, consistency, and cost-effectiveness. Key responsibilities include implementing infrastructure as code with Terraform, managing capacity for real-time workloads, and executing cost reduction strategies while maintaining compliance with security standards.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Experience operating production infrastructure on AWS and/or GCP at scale.
• Proficient in managing infrastructure as code and controlling environments.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver cloud cost savings and explain pricing models.
• Experience planning capacity for spiky or latency-sensitive workloads.
• Skilled in building monitoring and alerting systems for early problem detection.
• Design infrastructure for least privilege and safe change management.
• Preference for simple, consistent systems and understanding of trade-offs.
• Ability to communicate cost and reliability trade-offs to various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Operate infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Render to a consistent standard.
• Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform, reusable modules, and drift detection.
• Manage capacity: forecast demand, autoscale, and ensure headroom for workloads.
• Monitor cost attribution: tagging, allocation, dashboards, budgets, and alerts.
• Identify and implement cost reduction strategies through rightsizing and consolidation.
• Ensure reliability and observability, including incident response and follow-through.
• Maintain secure, auditable infrastructure supporting SOC 2 requirements.

Skills

Relocation