Staff Cloud Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Take charge of the technical strategy for the AWS platform supporting ticketing, streaming, and fundraising for high school athletics.

• Develop reporting tools that reveal cloud expenditure by domain, team, and project.

• Manage the Kubernetes platform on EKS, encompassing cluster architecture, upgrades, multi-tenancy, networking, and workload isolation.

• Create and sustain Terraform modules and reusable infrastructure provisioning patterns.

• Standardize CI/CD processes with progressive delivery, automated rollback, and secure deployment practices.

• Plan and implement cloud modernization and migration initiatives.

• Strengthen the platform through IAM boundaries, secrets management, network policy, image provenance, and audit posture.

• Engage in on-call duties for platform services and spearhead infrastructure incident responses.

• Offer design reviews, code reviews, and mentorship to senior engineers.

• Establish a multi-quarter technical strategy for cloud infrastructure.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of professional experience in infrastructure, platform, or site reliability engineering, including roles at a staff or equivalent senior individual-contributor level.

• Extensive production-level experience managing Amazon EKS under actual load, including cluster architecture, upgrades, autoscaling, multi-tenancy, and troubleshooting failures in a live cluster.

• Advanced Terraform expertise, including module design and state management across multiple environments.

• Proficient understanding of the CNCF ecosystem and the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

• Experience in establishing cost and usage visibility utilized by engineering teams.

• Background in planning and executing cloud modernization and migration work.

• Proficient in Go, Python, or TypeScript.

• Familiarity with core AWS services, including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudFront, RDS, CloudWatch, and Cost Explorer.

• Proven ability to drive technical change across teams that are not directly managed.

• Excellent written communication skills.

• Must be a full-time employee to be eligible for the company's employee health benefit plan.

🏝️ Benefits

• A variety of medical insurance plans available for selection.

• Coverage for dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.

• Access to an Employee Emergency Fund.

• Company equity in the form of stock options.

• An open PTO policy.

• A 401K plan with a company match.

• A hybrid and flexible work environment.