Senior Cloud Engineer

Xactus•Broomall, PA

9h•Remote

About The Position

We are seeking a hands-on Senior Cloud Engineer to help design, build, and operate platform capabilities that empower product teams across Xactus. You will work on infrastructure-as-code, AI/AI-Ops/Bedrock, GitOps-based pipelines, CI/CD tooling, observability, platform security and compliance, and internal developer platform components. You will be a technical leader and mentor, collaborate closely with product teams, and contribute to reliability, performance, and platform adoption. This role is both execution and leadership-focused: you’ll write code, design reusable platform modules, lead RFC/ADR discussions, own incident response activities, and help shape platform strategy and operating practices.

Requirements

Bachelors degree in CS IT or related or equivalent (at least 4 years in a Cloud Engineering / Platform Engineering role)
5-8 years of professional experience working with cloud platforms (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP acceptable).
3-5 years of hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform strongly preferred; Terragrunt/CloudFormation/Pulumi).
3-5 years of hands-on experience with cloud-based AI automation platforms (Bedrock, et al.)
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Strong experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and platform-level operations (cluster provisioning, networking, ingress, service mesh familiarity helpful).
Practical experience building and operating GitOps and CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD/Flux, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.).
Proven SRE/operational experience: SLO/SLI design, incident response, postmortems, and improving MTTR.
Solid observability experience (Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog, or equivalent) and instrumentation (OpenTelemetry).
Strong scripting and programming skills (Python, Go, Bash, or similar).
Good knowledge of cloud networking (VPC, routing, LB, DNS), IAM, and security best practices.
Experience with secret management tools (HashiCorp Vault or equivalent) and certificate automation.
Comfortable using Jira, Confluence, and GitHub.
Experience with RFC/ADR processes.
Excellent communication skills: able to work effectively with product teams, security, and stakeholders.
Demonstrated track record of delivering production-ready platforms and enabling developer productivity.
Candidates must be a resident of the United States, and should be authorized and eligible for employment in the United States.
Employment is contingent upon successful completion of required background checks (including but not limited to federal and state criminal history checks, employment history verification, education verification, credit history check) and pre-employment drug screening.

Nice To Haves

Prior platform engineering or internal developer platform (IDP) experience.
Experience with Flux/ArgoCD, Terragrunt, Helm charts, Kustomize.
Experience operating multi-region or multi-account cloud environments and cross-account IAM.
Experience with cost-optimization tools and practices for cloud spend reduction.
Familiarity with compliance frameworks (SOC2, PCI-DSS).
Experience in mentoring/leadership roles and improving team processes (agile coaching, backlog management).
Experience with CSPM or CNAPP platforms (e.g. Wiz, Orca, Lacework)

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation, or equivalent).
Build, maintain and evolve GitOps and CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD/Flux, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.) to support self-service platform capabilities and developer workflows.
Operate and scale Kubernetes-based workloads (EKS/GKE/AKS), including cluster lifecycle, networking, and security hardening.
Implement and maintain platform observability and reliability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry); define SLIs/SLOs and monitor MTTR.
Drive platform security and compliance: IAM, secrets management (Vault or similar), certificate management, logging and audit, and partner with InfoSec for audits (SOC2/PCI/etc.).
Author and review RFCs/ADRs and contribute to platform architecture decisions and Tech Radar.
Own incident response playbooks and runbooks; participate in on-call rotation and blameless postmortems.
Build reusable platform modules and templates to accelerate engineering teams’ adoption of platform services.
Collaborate cross-functionally with product teams to onboard services, agree ownership boundaries, and ensure smooth rollouts.
Mentor and coach junior engineers; participate in hiring and technical interviews.
Contribute to cost optimization, tooling improvements, and continuous improvement initiatives (hackathons, health assessments).
Experience supporting or implementing Amazon Bedrock capabilities, foundation model integrations, or related AI services.
Stand up and maintain multi-account cloud architectures and IaC modules.
Create GitHub Organizations policies and shared starter repos / templates for service onboarding.
Improve platform observability by defining SLIs/SLOs and implementing automated alerting and runbooks.
Build/extend an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) to enable self-service deployments and developer productivity.
Automate certificate management lifecycle, DNS provisioning, and cross-account networking.
Partner with InfoSec to implement guardrails for compliance and secure-by-default patterns.