Senior Cloud Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Design and implement secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective cloud architectures utilizing AWS and/or Azure.

• Architect and execute cloud networking, computing, storage, and identity frameworks.

• Assess and propose cloud services, architectural methodologies, and infrastructure strategies.

• Develop and uphold infrastructure-as-code frameworks using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar tools.

• Create and sustain CI/CD pipelines for cloud infrastructure and application deployments.

• Ensure that all changes are tested, validated, and deployed safely, with automated rollback capabilities.

• Automate processes for patching, scaling, monitoring, alerting, and optimizing costs.

• Guarantee that cloud environments adhere to Lilly's security standards, regulatory obligations, and data governance policies.

• Manage controls for identity management, secrets management, audit logging, and encryption.

• Monitor the security posture of cloud environments and rectify misconfigurations, drift, and policy breaches.

• Incorporate CSPM tools into operational workflows.

• Collaborate with Cybersecurity teams on enterprise threat models and regulatory frameworks.

• Oversee cloud environments for performance, availability, and cost-effectiveness.

• Identify inefficiencies, optimize resources, and promote FinOps practices.

• Contribute to platform engineering standards, reference architectures, and guardrails.

• Diagnose cloud infrastructure issues and engage in post-incident analysis and preventive measures.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline — or equivalent professional experience.

• Minimum of 3 years of hands-on cloud engineering experience in a production enterprise setting.

• Experience with AWS and/or Azure is mandatory.

• Proficient in infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.

• Familiarity with version control systems, specifically Git.

• Proficient in Python, Bash, or other comparable scripting languages.

• Strong knowledge of cloud networking and virtualization.

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

• Solid understanding of cloud security principles.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps methodologies in a cloud-native environment.

• AWS or Azure cloud certification is highly preferred.

• Experience with FinOps and enterprise-level cloud cost optimization is preferred.

• Familiarity with monitoring and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, CloudWatch, or Azure Monitor is preferred.

• Experience in regulated industries, familiar with GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, or HIPAA compliance is preferred.

• Production experience with Kubernetes, including cluster operations and workload management, is preferred.

• Experience with Site Reliability Engineering or Agent Reliability Engineering is preferred.

• Experience in an Agile environment is preferred.

• Experience with cloud security architecture, including IAM design, secrets management, network security groups, and cloud-native security tools, is preferred.

• Ability to design for principles of least privilege, defense in depth, security, compliance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

• Excellent communication skills with both developers and business stakeholders.

🏝️ Benefits

• Contract position lasting over 6 months.