Senior Cloud Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Oversee the design, development, and daily management of AWS environments, encompassing networking, IAM, compute, storage, and managed services.

• Advocate for infrastructure-as-code methodologies utilizing Terraform, Helm, and various configuration tools.

• Construct and uphold CI/CD pipelines with secure and reliable production deployment checkpoints.

• Manage and enhance logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting functionalities.

• Ensure application-stack security and compliance, focusing on secrets management, access controls, and audit logging.

• Collaborate with the Site Reliability Engineer on maintaining production reliability, on-call protocols, incident management, and post-incident analysis.

• Offer technical support to application engineers regarding deployment strategies, environment management, and platform-aware design.

• Strategize and implement provisioning, migrations, upgrades, and decommissioning, ensuring rollback options are available.

• Assess and integrate new tools and platform capabilities.

• Create and maintain documentation including architecture diagrams, runbooks, environment inventories, and decision records.

• Work in conjunction with Data Engineering and AI Engineering on shared platform issues.

• Participate in pager duty as part of a small on-call rotation.

• Act as the technical lead for AWS environments, deployment pipelines, observability, secrets and access management, as well as application-stack security and compliance.

• Partner with site reliability and application engineers to enhance production reliability and deployment methodologies.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• 5+ years of cumulative experience in Cloud / DevOps / Platform / Site Reliability Engineering.

• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS in a production setting.

• Strong expertise in Terraform (required), and familiarity with CloudFormation or Helm.

• Practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including cluster management, networking, and Helm chart creation.

• Proficient in designing and managing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.

• Experience with artifact management tools such as Artifactory, Nexus, or equivalent.

• Working knowledge of Python and shell scripting for automation purposes.

• Ability to read code in the languages utilized by the application team.

• Familiarity with log aggregation and observability tools like Datadog or Grafana.

• Experience in defining SLIs / SLOs / SLAs.

• Strong understanding of IAM, secrets management, network segmentation, audit logging, and patch/vulnerability management.

• Capability to function as the primary cloud/platform engineer within a small team.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• A strong sense of ownership and accountability; composed under pressure.

• Generous, curious, and humble demeanor.

• Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. on a full-time basis.

• The Company will not sponsor applicants for work visas.

• Preferred qualifications: experience in regulated environments; AWS professional-level certification; experience with data-intensive platforms like Databricks; and experience in platform migrations or system decommissioning, including 21 CFR Part 11 compliance.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity at hire.

• Discretionary annual bonus available based on Company performance.

• Comprehensive company benefits.

• Competitive industry-standard benefits.

• 401K plan.

• Flexible work environment.

• Additional company perks.

• Occasional travel for company and team on-site meetings.