Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Datacor

13d

About The Position

Datacor is the leading provider of software solutions, including ERP, CRM, Asset Tracking, Simulation and Formulation, to the process manufacturing space. We are on a mission to better equip the industry with software solutions and move it forward by building thoughtful, intuitive products that solve our customers’ most difficult problems. We are passionate about serving our customers and helping them use data as a competitive advantage. Our customers make products that extend and sustain lives by sanitizing, fertilizing, beautifying, cleaning, and recycling the world we live in. We at Datacor help our customers make those products you use every day more safely, cost effectively and more efficiently through our technology platforms and applications. We're seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer to help architect and build our AWS cloud foundation. This is a technical leadership role where you'll design infrastructure-as-code solutions, create self-service platforms for development teams, and establish the architectural patterns that enable us to scale. You'll work independently with limited supervision, making technical decisions about cloud architecture, security baselines, and infrastructure patterns.

Requirements

5-8+ years in infrastructure, cloud engineering, or platform roles
Deep AWS expertise with production environment design (VPC, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudFormation/CDK)
Terraform mastery including module design, state management, and multi-environment strategies
Platform thinking: Experience building self-service infrastructure or internal tooling that enables teams
Automation philosophy: Strong scripting/coding in Python, Go, Bash, or similar
Systems thinking: You make decisions based on multiple constraints—infrastructure, security, compliance, and developer experience must balance
Independent executor: You work autonomously, making sound technical judgments and seeking input when needed
Product mindset: You treat infrastructure as a product with internal customers, caring about developer experience and platform usability

Nice To Haves

Building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) or self-service infrastructure
Regulated industries (chemical, manufacturing, healthcare, financial) with compliance requirements
Serverless Architecture and Lambda experience
Track record mentoring engineers and establishing infrastructure practices
Hybrid cloud or multi-cloud experience (AWS primary, Azure/GCP helpful)

Responsibilities

Design and implement AWS cloud architecture from the ground up, including multi-account strategy, networking patterns, security baselines, and environment configurations
Build infrastructure-as-code foundations using Terraform, creating reusable modules that encode organizational standards
Establish "golden paths" for common infrastructure patterns—making the right way the easy way
Create self-service infrastructure tooling (CLIs, APIs, or interfaces) that hide AWS complexity from internal users while maintaining security guardrails
Build abstraction layers that provide infrastructure provisioning without sacrificing governance
Develop documentation and enablement materials that teach teams to leverage infrastructure independently
Serve as a technical authority on cloud infrastructure and architecture decisions
Establish observability foundations (logging, metrics, tracing) for platform health visibility
Automate operational tasks
Communicate complex technical decisions to engineering and business stakeholder