Senior Cloud Engineer

Overview

We are seeking a senior cloud engineer with expertise in modern cloud platforms, infrastructure automation, and security. This role partners across the organization to deliver scalable, secure, and resilient solutions that increase agility, flexibility, and durability.

• Working under the direction of the IT Manager, the Senior Cloud Engineer (SCE) will implement and refine public cloud computing infrastructure, primarily in GCP. The SCE will actively participate with other engineers and developers across the organization to implement new workloads in public cloud and refactor existing workloads to meet industry and business best practices. The SCE will also develop systems, tools, and infrastructure that will allow teams engaging with public cloud resources faster and more consistently to promote growth and innovation.
• Participate in root cause analysis, compliance and audit reviews, and on-call support rotations.

• Advanced experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience supporting and deploying a range of public cloud computing services, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS deployments.
• Experience building or managing self-service platforms, developer portals, reusable modules, and automation frameworks used to accelerate developer productivity.
• Demonstrable skills using Infrastructure as Code, idempotency, and repeatable tooling.
• Proven experience operating and managing container orchestration engines such as Kubernetes.
• Expertise in diagnosing and resolving complex issues across automation and cloud environments.
• Advanced experience architecting and managing highly-available and highly-performant multi-zonal and/or multi-regional systems. Bonus points if you’re experienced in helping development teams shift that left.
• Experience leveraging API-driven secrets management and configuration tooling, such as Hashi Corp Vault and Google Cloud Secrets Manager.
• Advanced understanding of networking concepts such as the Border Gateway Protocol, especially as it relates to public cloud infrastructure and on-premise components.
• Demonstrated understanding of infrastructure CI/CD pipelines and their related tooling, such as Gitlab
  
  CI and ArgoCD.
• Ability to operate from within task and project management tools such as Jira and service desk tools such as Salesforce.
• Collaborate with developers, SREs, information security analysts, and the business to ensure infrastructure aligns with best practices in security, compliance, and performance.
• Participate in root cause analysis, compliance and audit reviews, and on-call support rotations.

• 7+ years experience in cloud engineering role.
• 10+ years total industry experience, spanning any of IaC, systems engineering, cloud engineering/support, networking, Dev Ops, software development, or SRE.
• Expert level proficiency with Terraform, including writing custom modules and familiarity with complementary tools.
• Strong experience with cloud identity and access management / IdP integrations, secrets management, least privilege, and security best practices.
• Advanced understanding of networking concepts (e.g.; BGP, hybrid connectivity, cloud-on-prem integrations, load balancing).
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling.
• Experience migrating workloads from on-prem to cloud.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Experience working in an “agile-like” environment.
• Strong time management skills.

• Proactively communicates with others and demonstrates clear presentation and communication skills.
• Multi-cloud experience in AWS, GCP, and Azure a plus.
• Experience architecting and operating systems under compliance or regulatory frameworks a plus.

• bachelor's degree (preferred)

• Cloud certifications and training in AWS, GCP, Azure are a plus.

• Must be able to travel occasionally should a business need arise (less than 10%).
• Ability to work remote or onsite in corporate location. This includes being mobile within the office, including movement from floor-to-floor using elevators or stairs.
• Ability to work in a setting which enables…