Cloud Engineer

The DevOps Engineer will design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure while accelerating delivery of features through automation, CI/CD, and observability. You'll be a force multiplier for engineering teams, ensuring systems are fast, resilient, and easy to operate., * Build, expand, and optimize cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, CDK)

• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines that enable multiple daily deployments with zero downtime (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Jenkins, CircleCI)
• Automate everything: configuration management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet), application deployments, self-healing systems, and security hardening
• Own production reliability: monitoring, alerting, log management, and on-call response (Datadog, Prometheus+Grafana, New Relic, PagerDuty, Opsgenie)
• Drive progressive delivery practices: blue-green, canary, feature flags, and rollback strategies
• Perform capacity planning, cost optimization, and performance tuning across compute, storage, and networking
• Collaborate in project planning to evaluate technical feasibility, risks, and delivery trade-offs
• Harden systems and pipelines for security and compliance (IAM, Vault, Trivy, Snyk, OPA/Gatekeeper)
• Document architectures, runbooks, and processes while mentoring engineers on DevOps best practices

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 3-7+ years of hands-on DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering experience
• Expert-level Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred) and configuration management (Ansible strongly preferred)
• Deep experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS/GKE/AKS) and Docker
• Strong CI/CD pipeline design and troubleshooting (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Flux, Jenkins)
• Proficiency in at least one major cloud provider (AWS is a plus)
• Solid scripting/programming skills (Python, Go, Bash)
• Experience with observability stacks (metrics, logs, traces) and incident response, * Certifications: AWS DevOps Engineer, CKAD/CKA/CKS, Terraform Associate
• Experience running production workloads on Kubernetes at scale
• GitOps workflow expertise (ArgoCD, Flux v2)
• Background in security tooling and DevSecOps practices
• Cost optimization and FinOps experience
• Contributions to open-source infrastructure projects, All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Benefits are available to contract/temporary professionals, including medical, vision, dental, and life and disability insurance. Hired contract/temporary professionals are also eligible to enroll in our company 401(k) plan. Visit roberthalf.gobenefits.net for more information.

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