Senior Cloud Engineer
About The Position
We are seeking a hands-on Senior Cloud Engineer to join our Data & Insights organization and lead the design, implementation, automation, and operational excellence of our AWS cloud platforms. This role is ideal for an experienced cloud engineer with 5+ years of deep AWS infrastructure experience who thrives in large-scale enterprise environments and enjoys building secure, highly available, and automated cloud solutions. You will be responsible for the administration, reliability, security, performance, and continuous improvement of our cloud infrastructure supporting critical business applications and data platforms. You will work closely with Data Engineering, Security, DevOps, and Platform teams to design and operate scalable cloud environments while driving Infrastructure as Code, automation, operational maturity, and cloud best practices across the organization. The ideal candidate combines strong AWS infrastructure expertise with operational excellence, incident management experience, automation skills, and a passion for building reliable and secure cloud platforms. Databricks experience is highly desirable but not required. Candidates with strong AWS infrastructure engineering backgrounds who have supported enterprise-scale cloud platforms are encouraged to apply. You will be exposed to multiple technologies and various levels of AWS experience within the engineering teams and be required to tailor your approach accordingly. Our business is online 24/7, so you will occasionally be required to work out of hours or provide on-call duty on a rotation basis.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on AWS cloud engineering experience supporting enterprise-scale environments.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional certification required.
- Strong experience designing and supporting AWS infrastructure
- Experience supporting production cloud environments and participating in incident management and on-call rotations.
- Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages.
- Experience supporting Linux and Windows-based cloud environments.
- Excellent troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong knowledge of Database Technologies & Architectures such as SQL Server, Redshift or PostgreSQL
- Strong understanding of techniques and strategies for maintaining high availability
- Strong experience in automated deployment of infrastructure and applications
- Experienced in collaborative development – performing code reviews and automating via deployment pipelines, such as Jenkins, Gitlab CI or AWS CodePipeline
- Good networking skills; route tables, Firewalls & understanding load balancing technologies
- Good knowledge of log, monitoring and alerting platforms such as AWS CloudWatch, Spotlight, ELK, Prometheus
- Good understanding of Security and Compliance challenges and how to reduce scope and increase protection – we deal with PCI, SOX and GDPR on some of our systems
- Technical writing skills for documenting environments and procedures
- Excellent analytical, problem solving and resolution skills.
- Passionate about automation and tooling.
Nice To Haves
- Databricks administration or platform support experience.
- Kubernetes (EKS) administration and operations experience.
- Experience supporting Spark-based data platforms.
- Experience with Airflow or workflow orchestration platforms.
- Knowledge of data lake architectures and analytics platforms.
- Experience supporting regulated environments (SOX, PCI, GDPR).
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and support secure, scalable, and highly available AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Design, develop, and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Support and enhance CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and related DevOps tooling.
- Implement least-privilege security models using IAM roles and policies.
- Support vulnerability remediation and cloud security initiatives.
- Partner with engineering teams to improve deployment reliability and developer productivity.
- Troubleshooting of database and infrastructure issues on services you provide
- Provide input into the design, development and implementation of automation and tooling for data engineering teams to achieve their goals.
- Disaster Recovery planning, testing and execution in combination with engineering teams
- Share knowledge and skills with other team members
Benefits
- Medical, Vision and Dental benefits for you and your family, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
- Generous paid time off policy including paid holidays, sick time and paid days off for your birthday
- Free concert tickets
- 401(k) program with company match
- Stock Program
- New parent programs & support including caregiver leave and childcare cash, infertility support
- Tuition reimbursement
- Student loan repayment internal growth and development programs & trainings
- Volunteer time off
- Crowdfunding network
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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