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# Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Forward Deployed in New York

- **Company:** Energy Jobline
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $180,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Bash Shell, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Databases, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Runbook, Scripting, Google Cloud, Multi-Cloud, Containerization, Kubernetes, Deployment Automation, Machine Learning Operations, Terraform, Microservices
- **Published:** July 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.energyjobline.com/job/sr-cloud-infrastructure-engineer-forward-deployed-new-york-31240649

## About the Role

* 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

## Description

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


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