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# Cloud Engineer

- **Company:** Strategic Staffing Solutions
- **Location:** St. Louis, MO, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $145,600.0 - $156,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Engineering, Cyber Security, Continuous Integration, Linux, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Domain Name System (DNS), Github, Identity and Access Management, IP Routing, Subnetting, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Key Management, Windows Servers, PCI Data Security Standards, Role-Based Access Control, Ansible, Software Engineering, Load Balancing, System Availability, HybridCloud, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloudformation, Amazon Relational Database Service, Operational Systems, Functional Programming, Cloudwatch, Terraform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Jenkins
- **Published:** July 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=2c09a879cd7d8fe7

## About the Role

* 7+ years of progressive cloud engineering experience in enterprise environments
 * 1-2 days a week onsite is mandatory
 * Strong hands-on AWS experience: EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation, EKS, CloudWatch
 * Hands-on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure experience: OCI Compute, Networking, Object Storage, IAM, OKE, OCI Monitoring
 * Strong Terraform / Infrastructure as Code experience; Terraform is strongly preferred
 * Cloud networking and hybrid connectivity experience: VPCs, subnets, route tables, VPN, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, FastConnect, load balancers, and DNS
 * CI/CD and DevOps experience with tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Ansible, or similar
 * Cloud security experience including IAM, RBAC, least privilege, encryption, secrets management, WAF, security groups, and NACLs
 * Experience supporting production systems, monitoring, incident response, RCA, patching, disaster recovery, and high availability environments
 * Linux and Windows server administration experience
 * Regulated industry experience preferred, especially utilities, energy, critical infrastructure, financial services, healthcare, or government
 * NERC CIP, SOX, PCI-DSS, or similar compliance experience is a plus., * Cloud Engineering: 5 years (Required)
 * NERC: 1 year (Required)

## Description

* The Cloud Engineering team is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer with deep, hands-on expertise in AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Terraform / Infrastructure as Code, cloud networking, security, automation, and production support.
 * This person will help design, deploy, secure, and maintain cloud-based solutions that support critical utility operations.
 * The role will collaborate across infrastructure, cybersecurity, application development, data, and operational technology (OT) teams while supporting highly available, reliable, secure, and compliant hybrid cloud environments.


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