Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Forward Deployed in New York

Infrastructure Ownership & Leadership

• Design and implement scalable, production-grade cloud infrastructure on AWS and GCP
• Establish infrastructure standards, best practices, and runbooks for the organization
• Serve as the technical authority on cloud architecture decisions and trade-offs
• Mentor and manage 3 offshore DevOps engineers; provide technical direction and career guidance
• Oversee platform-layer design, complex builds, and engineering standards

Team Collaboration

• Collaborate with internal engineers and PM to align infrastructure roadmap
• Work closely with engineering leadership to support product and AI/ML workloads
• Manage consultant resources and external partnerships
• Drive knowledge transfer and upskilling of internal teams

Operational Excellence

• Establish CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and monitoring/observability frameworks
• Implement security best practices, compliance controls, and disaster recovery procedures
• Optimize cloud costs and resource utilization across multi-cloud environments
• Lead incident response and post-mortems; drive continuous improvement

• 10+ years of infrastructure engineering or DevOps experience
• Principal or Staff Engineer level technical depth: AWS and GCP expertise (IAM, compute, storage, networking, databases)
• Team leadership experience: Managing engineers (direct reports or mentoring at scale)
• Production systems ownership: Design, scaling, resilience, and operational oversight
• Multi-cloud architecture: Comfortable operating across AWS, GCP, and hybrid environments
• Automation mindset: Infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, scripting (Python, Bash, Terraform, etc.)
• Communication: Clear articulation of technical trade-offs and architectural decisions to non-technical stakeholders, * Experience managing offshore/distributed teams
• Background in AI/ML infrastructure or ML Ops
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, containerization, and microservices
• Experience in fast-growth, high-velocity engineering environments
• AWS Solutions Architect or Google Cloud Professional certifications

Automated Industries is seeking a Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to serve as a Principal-level consultant and hands-on infrastructure leader. You will own the design, deployment, and operation of their cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP, dotline-manage a team of 3 offshore DevOps engineers, and drive operational excellence alongside the internal engineering team of one of our clients based in New York, NY.