Senior Cloud Engineer
About The Position
As a distributed big data enthusiast, you’ll architect and deploy resilient, large-scale data solutions across Cassandra, Kafka, and OpenSearch in hybrid AWS and private cloud environments. You’ll automate cloud infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes, optimize high-throughput systems for scale and performance, and strengthen reliability through automated backups, security patching, and incident management. As a trusted technical partner, you’ll also guide application teams on data access patterns and cloud migration strategies. This position will perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil.
Requirements
- Bachelors and 8+ years hands on experience (deploy, monitor, scale, and upgrades) with a distributed database technology such as CassandraDB, Opensearch, Kafka, PostgreSQL, or Redis.
- 5+ Years managing AWS infrastructure at scale.
- 5+ Years experience with infrastructure automation and DevOps practices such as CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes), Python
- 5+ years experience supporting live production systems for customer facing software as a service
- 3+ years of experience leading technical projects, including responsibility for task estimation, milestone tracking, and stakeholder communication processes.
Nice To Haves
- Exposure to modern data platforms including data pipelines, streaming systems, AL/ML and GenAI workloads
- Experience writing data driven applications in Java or Python and familiarity with data access patterns in software
- Experience in regulated US Federal environments
Responsibilities
- Architect and deploy resilient, large-scale data solutions across Cassandra, Kafka, and OpenSearch in hybrid AWS and private cloud environments.
- Automate cloud infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes.
- Optimize high-throughput systems for scale and performance.
- Strengthen reliability through automated backups, security patching, and incident management.
- Guide application teams on data access patterns and cloud migration strategies.
Benefits
- medical, dental and vision insurance
- a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- paid parental leave
- short and long-term disability coverage
- basic life insurance
- Cisco restricted stock units
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
- 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
- paid year-end holiday shutdown
- 4 paid days off for personal wellness
- 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year (non-exempt)
- flexible vacation time off program (exempt)
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
- up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
- Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
- annual bonuses (non-sales roles)
- performance-based incentive pay (sales roles)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
