Senior Cloud Engineer
About The Position
Laivly is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to build, scale, and strengthen the cloud infrastructure that powers its AI technology. The role designs and operates secure, reliable, high-performing, and cost-efficient AWS environments, applying technical expertise and a proactive approach to reliability, automation, and continuous improvement. The engineer will help ensure infrastructure can meet changing customer and business needs and support secure solutions for enterprise and regulated environments. Working with Architecture, IT Operations, Information Security, Engineering, and Product teams, the Senior Cloud Engineer will address complex infrastructure challenges, strengthen cloud foundations, and support application performance, scalability, and security. The position is remote and based in the United States.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of progressive hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, cloud operations, systems engineering, or platform engineering, including significant experience operating production AWS environments.
- Strong AWS expertise across networking, compute, storage, IAM, monitoring, logging, and cloud security.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience designing and operating highly available, scalable, and resilient cloud environments.
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, identity management, encryption, security controls, and infrastructure governance.
- Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar tools.
- Experience with observability, incident management, root-cause analysis, and infrastructure troubleshooting.
- Strong problem-solving skills and technical judgment, with the ability to collaborate across technical teams.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation.
- Experience with containers and Kubernetes, ideally Amazon EKS.
- Experience supporting regulated cloud environments, including FedRAMP, NIST, or AWS GovCloud.
- Relevant AWS certifications.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and cost-efficient AWS cloud environments.
- Develop and improve infrastructure-as-code practices, reusable infrastructure components, and cloud configuration standards.
- Lead infrastructure modernization, migrations, and improvements to meet evolving business and technical requirements.
- Improve cloud reliability, performance, and resilience through proactive monitoring, capacity planning, and infrastructure improvements.
- Design and improve backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity capabilities.
- Develop monitoring, observability, alerting, and automation solutions to improve system performance and reduce operational complexity.
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues, support incident resolution, and implement lasting corrective actions.
- Partner with Security and Architecture teams to implement cloud security practices, including identity management, encryption, network security, and access controls.
- Support cloud governance, security compliance, and automated infrastructure validation.
- Identify opportunities to optimize cloud costs, resource utilization, and infrastructure efficiency.
- Provide technical guidance through architecture reviews, documentation, knowledge sharing, and mentorship.
- Collaborate with Engineering and Product teams to ensure cloud infrastructure supports application performance, scalability, and security.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to strengthen cloud capabilities.
Benefits
- Flexible work environment.
- Opportunity to collaborate and grow your career with a creative, diverse, and passionate team.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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