Cloud Reliability Engineer

HP•Spring, TX

18d•$130,700 - $205,200

About The Position

This role leads the design, engineering, deployment, and reliability of cloud platforms, infrastructure, and services. As a member of the Cloud Reliability Engineering team, the position ensures the availability, scalability, resiliency, security, and operational excellence of cloud-native solutions. It drives automation, observability, incident management, and continuous improvement, partnering with engineering teams to deliver reliable and secure cloud services that support business needs. The role provides technical leadership for cloud reliability and enterprise-scale platforms, influences platform strategy and operational standards across teams, and resolves complex infrastructure and distributed-systems challenges. It requires substantial independent judgment in setting reliability standards and operational policies.

Requirements

Four-year or graduate degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or another related discipline, or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.
Typically 7–10 years of work experience, preferably in distributed and cloud computing, software and cloud design, programming languages, agile development methodologies, or a related field.
Knowledge of site reliability engineering (SRE), cloud infrastructure and platform engineering, high availability and disaster recovery, observability, monitoring and alerting, incident management and root cause analysis, SLIs and SLOs, performance and capacity engineering, cloud security and compliance, automation engineering, and microservices and distributed systems.
Knowledge of AWS, Azure, and GCP; Kubernetes and Docker; Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, and Bicep; DevOps and CI/CD; and Python, Java, and APIs.

Nice To Haves

AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, or CSA certification.

Responsibilities

Lead the design, deployment, and management of cloud platforms and infrastructure in alignment with business, architecture, and security requirements.
Own the availability, reliability, scalability, and operational health of cloud services and platforms.
Design and implement cloud solutions and infrastructure to protect and manage cloud-native applications and data.
Build and own observability capabilities, including monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, dashboards, and reliability metrics.
Establish and maintain Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and operational reliability standards.
Lead incident response, root cause analysis, problem management, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Coordinate security reviews, vulnerability remediation, compliance assessments, and penetration testing to ensure production environments meet HP security standards.
Build standards and automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment, configuration management, and operational processes using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevSecOps practices.
Partner with DevOps and engineering teams to develop tooling, automation, and platform capabilities for cloud operations, microservices, and distributed systems.
Contribute to cloud platform strategy, architecture decisions, engineering roadmaps, and proof-of-concept initiatives.
Drive capacity planning, performance optimization, disaster recovery, and business continuity readiness.
Champion CI/CD, automated testing, and reliability engineering best practices.
Create operational runbooks, technical standards, and architecture documentation, and provide mentorship on cloud reliability and operational excellence.