Senior Cloud Engineer
About The Position
This position is responsible for completing technical work on client engagements involving accounting and consulting matters while maintaining positive client relationships. The Senior Cloud Engineer engineers and operates multi-cloud foundations, with hands-on depth in at least two major cloud providers. The role develops reusable infrastructure-as-code modules and standardized patterns, automates operational tasks, and owns reliability outcomes for cloud services. The position also establishes operational standards, leads troubleshooting and root cause analysis, and implements preventative improvements. It engineers security, compliance, backup, recovery, resilience, patching, and vulnerability-management guardrails, supports audit readiness, and provides technical leadership through mentoring and cross-team influence. The listed pay range is $74,200 to $148,230; actual compensation depends on relevant factors including skills, experience, qualifications, certifications, work arrangements, and geographic location. Baker Tilly offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package to eligible employees.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- At least 5 years in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or related roles.
- Hands-on engineering depth in at least two major cloud providers: AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI.
- Strong infrastructure-as-code skills, with Terraform preferred and/or Ansible, including module development and pattern standardization.
- Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, PowerShell, Bash, or equivalent.
- Experience implementing or significantly improving CI/CD practices for infrastructure delivery.
- Strong operational ownership, including incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and preventative remediation.
- Knowledge of multi-cloud design and operations and foundational services such as identity integration, networking, logging and monitoring, compute, storage, and security controls.
- Knowledge of operational excellence practices, including runbooks, monitoring standards, alerting practices, operational readiness, and lifecycle management.
- Knowledge of security and compliance implementation patterns and audit readiness, with SOC, HIPAA, and CMMC given as examples.
- Ability to engineer, automate, and operate cloud services end-to-end and drive ambiguous work to clarity.
- Ability to build automation workflows and enforce code quality expectations, including reviews, documentation, versioning, and validation.
- Ability to own reliability outcomes and reduce operational toil through automation.
- Ability to translate business requirements into technical designs, implementation plans, and roadmaps.
- Ability to mentor engineers and influence cross-team patterns.
- Scripting and automation tools include Python, PowerShell, and Bash or equivalent.
- Infrastructure-as-code tools include Terraform, Ansible, and Bicep.
Nice To Haves
- Two or more preferred certifications: AWS Solutions Architect – Professional; Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert; Google Professional Cloud Architect; Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional.
- Experience with container platforms and orchestration.
- Knowledge of cloud governance and guardrails, such as Azure Policy, AWS Organizations controls, or GCP organization policies.
- Experience with centralized logging and security monitoring integrations, including SIEM examples.
- Experience in regulated environments and audit readiness, such as SOC, HIPAA, or CMMC.
- Experience with multi-region patterns, shared-services networking, and private connectivity.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate scalable infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and other cloud providers, with hands-on depth in at least two.
- Engineer and improve foundational services and standard patterns for identity integration, networking, logging and monitoring, compute, storage, and security controls.
- Own lifecycle management for key services, including upgrades, deprecation planning, and operational readiness.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, Ansible, or Bicep, emphasizing reusable modules, standardized patterns, and consistency across environments.
- Establish code quality expectations for reviews, documentation, versioning, and validation.
- Build automation workflows and scripts to eliminate manual operational tasks and improve reliability.
- Own reliability outcomes for cloud services; lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis and implement preventative improvements.
- Define and improve runbooks, monitoring standards, alerting practices, and support models.
- Ensure deployments meet security and compliance expectations through guardrails, patterns, and technical controls in coordination with Security/Risk.
- Support audit readiness, including evidence support and control implementation for examples such as SOC, HIPAA, and CMMC.
- Design and validate backup, recovery, and resilience patterns, and ensure objectives are tested and reliable.
- Lead and automate improvements to patching and vulnerability management.
- Translate requirements into designs, implementation plans, and roadmaps aligned to cloud-first.
- Mentor engineers through pairing, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.
- Provide technical guidance across teams and influence patterns and decisions to reduce delivery friction.
- Implement or significantly improve CI/CD practices for infrastructure delivery.
- Optimize performance and cost-efficiency, including enforcing tagging standards and cost allocation practices.
Benefits
- Comprehensive compensation and benefits package for eligible employees.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
