Senior Engineer, Cloud Platform

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd•Miami, FL

21h•Onsite

About The Position

Journey with us! Combine your career goals and sense of adventure by joining our exciting team of employees. Royal Caribbean Group is pleased to offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, and excellent career development opportunities, each offering unique ways to explore the world. The Royal Caribbean Group´s IT Team has an exciting career opportunity for a full-time Sr. Engineer, Cloud Platform reporting to Cloud operation Manager The position is onsite and based in Miami, Florida. The position is also not eligible for work authorization sponsorship. Position Summary: We’re looking for a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, reliable, and cost‑efficient cloud infrastructure at scale. You’ll be a hands-on technical leader—owning infrastructure-as-code, modernizing our platform services, guiding best practices, and partnering with security, networking, and application teams to deliver resilient, observable, and well-governed cloud environments.

Requirements

5+ years of hands‑on experience engineering and operating production cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP).
Strong IaC expertise (Terraform preferred) and modern Git-based workflows (branches, PRs, code reviews).
Solid understanding of cloud networking (CIDR, routing, NAT, DNS, load balancing, TLS).
Practical security know-how: IAM, KMS/secrets, image signing, vulnerability scanning, policy/guardrails.
Experience building CI/CD pipelines and automating platform operations.
Excellent troubleshooting, incident management, and cross‑team communication skills.
Bachelor’s in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

Deep experience with Azure services (e.g., ARM/Bicep, Azure Policy, Azure Monitor/Log Analytics, AKS, ACR, Application Gateway, Private Endpoints).
Service Mesh/Zero Trust (Istio, Linkerd, mTLS), API gateways, and event-driven architectures.
Database platform knowledge (managed SQL/NoSQL), data protection, and backup/restore strategies.
Compliance familiarity (SOC 2, PCI, ISO 27001) and evidence-based controls.
FinOps tools and practices (budgets, tagging strategy, cost reporting).
Experience leading migrations or large platform modernization efforts.

Responsibilities

Architect and implement scalable cloud infrastructure (compute, networking, storage, identity, secrets, container platforms, serverless) using Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform/CloudFormation).
Own day‑to‑day reliability and performance of core platform services (e.g., Kubernetes/AKS/EKS/GKE, API gateways, service mesh, artifacts, registries) including patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
Create reusable modules, pipelines, and tooling (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/Jenkins) to enable self-service provisioning and safe, repeatable deployments.
Implement guardrails, IAM least privilege, key management, and workload hardening in partnership with Security.
Establish logging, metrics, tracing (CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Grafana).
Design resilient network topologies (VPC/VNet peering, PrivateLink/Private Endpoints, routing, DNS, WAF, CDN) and troubleshoot connectivity/perf issues.
Coach engineers, perform design reviews, and document patterns, runbooks, and reference architectures.
Participate in a reasonable, rotating on‑call schedule for critical platform services.