Sr. Cloud Engineer

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Cloud Engineer to lead the design, deployment, and management of our cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalable, secure, and reliable cloud-based applications. This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive professional passionate about cloud technology, automation, and continuous improvement to play a pivotal role in supporting our mission-critical systems.

• Cloud Infrastructure Management:
  Deploy, monitor, and maintain robust cloud environments on AWS across development, staging, and production. Ensure high availability and optimize performance and cost-efficiency.
• Automation & CI/CD:
  Develop and maintain reusable pipeline templates, jobs, and stages for continuous integration and delivery, promoting automation and process consistency across teams.
• Application Deployment & Containerization:
  Collaborate with development teams to containerize applications using ECS, EKS, and Lambda functions; oversee deployment processes to ensure stability and scalability.
• Monitoring & Incident Response:
  Set up comprehensive monitoring dashboards, thresholds, and custom Cloud Watch metrics; proactively identify issues and respond swiftly to outages or performance degradations.
• Security & Compliance:
  Maintain cloud environments in accordance with security standards, conduct patch assessments, and implement best practices for data protection and compliance.
• Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity:
  Design and test regional failover strategies, create detailed recovery runbooks, and ensure adherence to RTO and RPO objectives.
• Scripting & Automation:
  Develop custom scripts utilizing Python, Bash, YAML/JSON to automate routine tasks, implement alerting mechanisms, and enhance system reliability.
• Documentation & Change Management:
  Maintain detailed infrastructure documentation, change records, and participate actively in Agile planning and review sessions.
• Support & On-Call Responsibilities:
  Participate in 24/7 rotation to support production environments, troubleshoot incidents, and perform root cause analysis.

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent work experience)
• 8+ years of IT experience, including 5+ years in cloud support, infrastructure, or IT operations
• Proven expertise with AWS services, especially Lambda, ECS, EKS, Cloud Watch
• Strong scripting abilities with Python and Bash for automation tasks
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and Cloud Formation
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD platforms like Git Hub, Git Lab, Kubernetes
• Cloud certifications such as AWS Dev Ops Engineer or Solutions Architect Associate
• Excellent communication skills, both technical and non-technical
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States with the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

• Ability to diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks in cloud environments
• Familiarity with container orchestration tools like Docker, Kubernetes
• Knowledge of ITIL practices and incident management frameworks

Publishing Pay Range: $55.00 – $60.00 USD Hourly