Cloud Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build cloud-native solutions that enable automated, repeatable shard provisioning.
• Develop tooling for: Kubernetes cluster bootstrapping, network configuration, service mesh deployment, health validation and readiness checks.
• Create and maintain Helm charts supporting multi-shard deployments across regions and environments.
• Configure and operate Istio service mesh capabilities, including: Traffic management, mTLS enforcement, observability and monitoring.
• Design, configure, and operate API gateway technologies such as Tyk, Apigee, or NGINX.
• Implement routing policies, rate limiting, mTLS enforcement, and SLI/SLO metric replication.
• Execute zero-downtime ingress migrations through automation and validation processes.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using: ArgoCD, Tekton, Concourse, and similar GitOps tools.
• Automate deployment controls including: Cluster health validation, fleet distribution verification, rollback triggers, and migration orchestration.
• Implement cloud security best practices across AWS and GCP.
• Design and maintain monitoring, alerting, and dashboarding solutions using: Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog.
• Develop automation scripts and internal tooling using: Python, Go, Bash, Node.js, and build tools supporting: migration orchestration, fleet validation, runbook automation, capacity planning, operational excellence.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or Software Engineering.
• 3+ years of experience managing cloud infrastructure in AWS and/or GCP.
• Hands-on experience provisioning and managing Kubernetes clusters (EKS or GKE) in production environments.
• Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices.
• Experience with GitOps workflows and infrastructure automation.
• Proficiency developing and maintaining Helm charts.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills in cloud and distributed systems environments.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GKE, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Workload Identity, VPC-SC, Cloud Operations).
• Experience with AWS cloud services and infrastructure management.
• Multi-cloud platform architecture and migration strategies.
• Experience with Kubernetes Ecosystem and Istio service mesh administration.
• Experience with API Gateway Technologies (Tyk, Apigee, NGINX).
• Experience with CI/CD & Automation (ArgoCD, Tekton, Concourse, GitOps deployment methodologies).
• Programming Languages: Python, Go, Java (Spring Boot), Node.js, Bash or PowerShell scripting.
• Experience with IAM and role-based access control, OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS implementation, and multi-cloud security architecture.

Benefits

Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We also offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program), a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Additionally, we provide a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program, and other discounts. For professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. We also have a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.