Senior Cloud Engineer

ESG • Atlanta, GA

8d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer leads the design, implementation, and optimization of scalable, secure, and highly available cloud and on-premises infrastructure. The role partners with application development, security, and infrastructure teams to advance automation, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency across the organization. As a senior-level contributor, this engineer provides technical leadership, mentors colleagues, influences architectural decisions, and owns complex cloud and DevOps initiatives from design through production. The position calls for hands-on expertise in cloud platforms, virtualization, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and cloud cost optimization in hybrid environments. It is hybrid, with an expectation of working on-site at the office 2–3 days per week. Visa sponsorship is not offered now or in the future.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• 7–8+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• 5+ years designing, operating, and optimizing complex enterprise environments across Windows, Linux, and SQL-based systems.
• Strong expertise in enterprise data center technologies, including storage platforms, network switching, and security infrastructure.
• Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider; AWS is preferred, with Azure or GCP acceptable.
• Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Advanced knowledge of virtualization and container platforms, including VMware (vSphere, ESXi, vCenter) and Docker/Kubernetes in production environments.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, and/or Go.
• Experience implementing observability and monitoring solutions, including Datadog.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to manage priorities, influence stakeholders, and lead technical initiatives.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree.
• Experience leading large-scale cloud migrations to AWS.
• Strong SQL Server administration experience.
• CI/CD expertise with Jenkins, GitLab CI, Git, Jira, or CircleCI.
• Cloud cost optimization and FinOps experience, including rightsizing, Reserved Instances/Savings Plans, tagging, and budgets.
• Ability to establish DevOps and cloud governance standards.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with application development teams to design and implement reliable, automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Architect, implement, and maintain cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code best practices.
• Drive automation across provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and recovery processes.
• Design, implement, and maintain observability platforms, particularly Datadog for metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
• Establish monitoring, SLOs, and alerting strategies to improve reliability and reduce mean time to resolution.
• Optimize cloud cost efficiency by identifying savings opportunities and implementing cost controls without compromising performance.
• Implement and maintain configuration management using tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Own and optimize VMware environments to ensure high availability, scalability, and performance.
• Serve as a senior escalation point for production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and drive long-term remediation.
• Partner with security teams to enforce infrastructure security, compliance, and best practices.
• Lead disaster recovery planning, testing, and continuous improvement.
• Perform system performance tuning, capacity planning, and cost analysis.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and contribute to technical standards and documentation.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams and operational documentation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior