Senior Cloud Engineer

Job summary

This role engineers and operates multi-cloud platforms for client engagements, with ownership of foundational services, infrastructure as code, automation, reliability, and technical standards. The work includes developing reusable Terraform, Ansible, and Bicep patterns; automating operations with Python, PowerShell, and Bash; leading troubleshooting and root cause analysis; and implementing security, compliance, backup, recovery, and vulnerability-management controls across cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.
• At least five years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or a related role.
• Hands-on engineering experience with at least two major cloud providers: AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code experience, preferably with Terraform or Ansible, including module development and pattern standardization.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or equivalent.
• Experience implementing or significantly improving CI/CD practices for infrastructure delivery.
• Strong operational ownership, including incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and preventative remediation.
• Two or more cloud architect certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate scalable infrastructure across cloud providers, with hands-on depth in at least two.
• Engineer foundational services and standard patterns for identity, networking, logging, monitoring, compute, storage, and security.
• Develop and maintain reusable infrastructure-as-code modules and standardized patterns using Terraform, Ansible, or Bicep.
• Build automation workflows and scripts using Python, PowerShell, or Bash to reduce manual operations and improve reliability.
• Own cloud service reliability, lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis, and implement preventative improvements.
• Define and improve runbooks, monitoring standards, alerting practices, and support models.
• Implement security and compliance guardrails and support audit readiness, including SOC, HIPAA, and CMMC controls.
• Design and validate backup, recovery, and resilience patterns, and improve patching and vulnerability management.
• Translate requirements into designs, implementation plans, and roadmaps; mentor engineers and influence cross-team technical patterns.

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Relocation