Senior Cloud Engineer
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 improve automation, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency across hybrid environments. The engineer provides technical leadership, mentors other engineers, influences architectural decisions, and owns complex cloud and DevOps initiatives from design through production. The position requires hands-on expertise in cloud platforms, virtualization, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and cloud cost optimization (FinOps). It is hybrid, with 2–3 days per week on-site. 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; the posting also describes the role as seeking 8+ years of relevant experience.
- 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 VMware (vSphere, ESXi, vCenter) and Docker/Kubernetes in production environments.
- Proficiency in scripting and automation with Python, PowerShell, Bash, and/or Go.
- Experience implementing observability and monitoring solutions, including Datadog.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, including 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.
- Implement and maintain configuration management using tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
- Own and optimize VMware environments for 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
