Senior Cloud Engineer F/H

Job summary

The Cloud Engineer role involves designing, deploying, and operating the infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) layer of a cloud platform, ensuring security, resilience, and high performance. Key responsibilities include building Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation pipelines with Terraform and Ansible, as well as implementing monitoring solutions using Prometheus and Grafana.

Qualifications

• 8–10 years of experience in infrastructure/cloud engineering
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or a related discipline.
• Strong infrastructure virtualization and system administration skills
• Good working knowledge of AWS based infrastructure services
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Bash and Python 3.
• Expertise in infrastructure automation with SaltStack or Ansible.
• US Citizenship required; eligibility for security clearance is a must.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, operate, and maintain the cloud platform, focusing on scalability, performance, reliability, and security.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation pipelines using Terraform, Ansible, and related tools.
• Automate and standardize deployments, upgrades, and regional expansions.
• Improve platform performance, resilience, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Define and track SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and other key operational metrics.
• Build and maintain monitoring and observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, and the ELK Stack.
• Identify and address performance issues, security risks, and single points of failure.
• Lead incident investigations and conduct root-cause analyses.
• Create and maintain technical documentation and operational procedures.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, product, support, vendor, and partner teams.
• Support capacity planning and infrastructure roadmap development.
• Ensure compliance with internal security policies and regulatory requirements.

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