Cloud Engineer (Infrastructure Systems)

Location: Charlotte, NC, United States

About the role

Samaritan's Purse has an incredible opportunity for a Cloud Engineer to join our Information Technology department. This role is part of the Samaritan Ark Cloud Services team, with a strong focus on Infrastructure Systems. As a Cloud Engineer, you'll play a vital part in enabling ministries to spread the Gospel by building, maintaining, and evolving the foundational platforms that power our cloud platform. We run a fully on-premise, open-source environment, and you'll focus on baremetal Kubernetes, Ceph, OpenStack, and the infrastructure services that empower developers and operators.

Responsibilities

• Maintain your personal relationship with Jesus Christ and be an effective witness for Him.
• Build, maintain, and optimize cloud infrastructure platform services that support the deployment and operation of ministry-critical workloads in our private cloud platform.
• Utilize various Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to assist in optimizing engineering builds.
• Provision and automate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines using Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD tools to support development and production environments.
• Support Kubernetes cluster and open source storage lifecycle operations including upgrades, patching, and configuration management across multiple environments.
• Monitor applications and infrastructure performance and respond to incidents as part of an on-call rotation, supporting root cause analysis and long-term remediation.
• Contribute to internal tooling and documentation to improve team productivity, technical consistency, and system knowledge-sharing.
• Assist in evaluating cost implications and supporting optimization efforts for cloud resource usage; coordinate implementation efforts across stakeholders and vendors as needed.
• Assist in the evaluation and adoption of emerging cloud technologies, advocating for improvements in resilience, cost, and maintainability.
• Actively participate in team ceremonies, including stand-ups, retrospectives, and planning meetings, fostering continuous improvement and shared accountability.
• All other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or university program certificate in a related field, plus five (5) to seven (7) years of Cloud Engineering experience, or seven (7) or more years of related experience.
• Proven experience in cloud infrastructure engineering with a focus on platform operations, automation, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Hands-on extensive experience administering Kubernetes in production, strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills, and comfort with open-source, on-premise environments; OpenStack and Ceph experience is a plus.
• 12 credit hours of college-level Biblical Studies (required); if not already completed, an opportunity to meet and complete the requirement is available upon hire.

Benefits

• On-site Medical Clinic (staff and dependents)
• Medical, prescription, dental & vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Long-term and Short-term disability insurance
• Paid Family Medical Leave
• Term Life Insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• 10 paid holidays
• 12 vacation/personal days
• 10 sick days

Schedule

Full-Time

Locations

Charlotte, NC; Irving, TX; Boone, NC; N. Wilkesboro, NC; Flowery Branch, GA; Aurora, IL; Englewood, CO; Fullerton, CA; Coppell, TX; Windsor Mill, MD