Lead Engineer, Cloud Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Chile.

📋 Description

• Act as the principal technical authority for Cloud Engineering based in Santiago.

• Design and develop AWS infrastructure and automation solutions.

• Provide mentorship to engineering teams.

• Take responsibility for the successful delivery of significant platform workstreams.

• Guide the team in the integration of AI-assisted and agentic engineering practices.

• Participate in the AWS Managed Services (AMS) Advanced-to-Accelerate migration project.

• Upgrade the Amazon EKS infrastructure.

• Create multi-region landing zones and networking configurations.

• Develop AI services utilizing Amazon Bedrock.

• Construct CI/CD pipelines, implement infrastructure as code, and establish self-service automation.

• Provide support to Cloud Operations, Product Development, QA, Sales, and IT departments.

• Evaluate success through the application of DORA metrics.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering, including more than 2 years in leadership roles over engineers or technical workstreams.

• Extensive practical experience with AWS services: IAM, EC2, VPC, Transit Gateway, ALB/NLB, CloudFront, S3, RDS, ECS/Fargate, EKS, Lambda, Step Functions, Systems Manager, and CloudWatch.

• Proficient in infrastructure as code using CloudFormation and/or Terraform.

• Strong expertise in Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).

• Solid skills in Python and Bash scripting.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines as code, utilizing Git, Jira, and Confluence; Jenkins is preferred.

• Regular use of AI-assisted engineering tools with a comprehensive understanding of how AI agents can safely automate infrastructure and operational tasks.

• Experience with configuration management tools (such as Puppet or similar), Linux systems, observability tools (like Datadog or similar), and incident response protocols.

• Strong knowledge of cloud security practices in regulated environments.

• Proficiency in both English and Spanish.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.

• Preferred: AWS Professional certification (DevOps Engineer or Solutions Architect).

• Preferred: Hands-on experience with Amazon Bedrock, LLM APIs, agent frameworks, RAG, or Model Context Protocol (MCP).

• Preferred: Familiarity with AWS Control Tower, Organizations, IAM Identity Center, or AWS Managed Services (AMS).

• Preferred: Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server on AWS, particularly in financial services or other regulated industries.

🏝️ Benefits

• Full-time employment.

• Regular worker status.

• 40 scheduled hours per week.