Senior Cloud Engineer

Raas Infotek LLC
United States
3 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Bash Shell Cloud Computing Cloud Engineering Disaster Recovery Domain Name System (DNS) Fault Tolerance Github Monitoring of Systems Identity and Access Management Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
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Python (Programming Language) Key Management Network Segmentation Octopus Deploy PCI Data Security Standards Windows PowerShell Cloud Services Prometheus Zero Trust Network Access Runbook Software Vulnerability Management Datadog Policy as Code Data Logging Pulumi Scripting Google Cloud Load Balancing Autoscaling Istio Grafana Firewalls (Computer Science) Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Cloudformation Containerization Gitlab-ci Kubernetes Information Technology Deployment Automation Bicep Opsworks Cloudwatch Terraform Serverless Computing Docker Jenkins Programming Languages

Job description

We are looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure. You will be a technical leader on the team, setting standards for architecture and automation, mentoring engineers, and partnering with development, security, and operations teams to deliver reliable platforms at scale., Architecture and Design

  • Design and implement highly available, fault-tolerant, multi-region cloud architectures on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
  • Lead cloud migration and modernization initiatives, including lift-and-shift, re-platforming, and re-architecting to cloud-native services
  • Define reference architectures, landing zones, and best practices for the organization
  • Evaluate new cloud services and recommend adoption based on technical and business fit

Automation and Infrastructure as Code

  • Build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, or Pulumi
  • Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD)
  • Automate provisioning, configuration, patching, and operational tasks using Python, Bash, or PowerShell

Containers and Platform Engineering

  • Design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS, GKE) and containerized workloads
  • Implement service mesh, ingress, autoscaling, and workload-optimization strategies
  • Support developer self-service through internal platforms and golden paths

Security and Compliance

  • Implement cloud security best practices: IAM, network segmentation, encryption, secrets management, and zero-trust principles
  • Partner with security teams on vulnerability management, audits, and compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR as applicable)
  • Enforce policy-as-code and guardrails (OPA, AWS Config, Azure Policy)

Reliability and Operations

  • Own observability: monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, ELK, OpenTelemetry)
  • Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets; drive incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems
  • Design and test disaster recovery and backup strategies
  • Participate in on-call rotation for critical production systems

Cost Optimization (FinOps)

  • Monitor and optimize cloud spend through right-sizing, reserved capacity, and savings plans
  • Implement tagging, budgeting, and cost-visibility practices

Leadership and Collaboration

  • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers; conduct design and code reviews
  • Collaborate with product, engineering, and security stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions
  • Produce clear documentation, runbooks, and architecture decision records (ADRs)

Requirements

Experience: 10+ years in IT, with at least 5+ years in cloud engineering, * 10+ years of overall IT experience, including 5+ years hands-on with public cloud platforms

  • Deep expertise in at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform); working knowledge of a second
  • Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Docker in production
  • Solid understanding of networking: VPC/VNet design, DNS, load balancing, VPN, Direct Connect/ExpressRoute, firewalls
  • Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language (Python, Go, or Bash)
  • Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
  • Strong knowledge of IAM, security best practices, and compliance frameworks
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tooling
  • Proven track record of leading complex cloud projects end to end
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Benefits & conditions

Depends on Experience

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