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 that supports ticketing, streaming, and fundraising for high school sports.

• Develop reporting tools that provide visibility into cloud expenditures by domain, team, and project.

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

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

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

• Plan and implement cloud modernization and migration initiatives.

• Strengthen the platform by establishing IAM boundaries, managing secrets, enforcing network policies, ensuring image provenance, and enhancing audit posture.

• Participate in on-call support for platform services and lead the response to infrastructure incidents.

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

• Define the technical direction for cloud infrastructure over multiple quarters.

⛳️ Requirements

• 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 real load, encompassing cluster architecture, upgrades, autoscaling, multi-tenancy, and troubleshooting failures within a running cluster.

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

• Proficient in the CNCF ecosystem and familiar with the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

• Experience in creating visibility around costs and usage for engineering teams.

• Proven track record in planning and executing cloud modernization and migration projects.

• Skilled in Go, Python, or TypeScript programming languages.

• Good understanding of core AWS services such as EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudFront, RDS, CloudWatch, and Cost Explorer.

• Experience in driving technical changes across teams not directly managed.

• Strong written communication skills.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• A variety of medical insurance plans to select from.

• Dental, vision, life, and disability insurance options.

• Employee Emergency Fund available.

• Company equity in the form of stock options.

• Open PTO policy for flexible time off.

• 401K plan with company matching contributions.

• Hybrid and flexible work environment.