Cloud Engineer/Site Reliability Architect

Responsibilities

• Operate Kubernetes platforms at significant scale across providers, including Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), CoreWeave Kubernetes Service (CKS), and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• Own the Kubernetes cluster lifecycle, including node-pool design and management, scheduler troubleshooting, container network interface (CNI) and network-policy troubleshooting, capacity planning, and safe rolling upgrades across large fleets.
• Develop, review, and maintain infrastructure as code with Terraform, along with Python tooling and automation that improve reliability, repeatability, and operational efficiency.
• Define and maintain service-level indicators (SLIs) and service-level objectives (SLOs); build monitoring and alerting that surface meaningful risks before they affect workloads.
• Debug complex distributed-system failures by forming hypotheses, testing them methodically, and separating temporal correlation from causation.
• Provision high-performance computing (HPC) and GPU infrastructure through the Conveyor CI/CD system across AWS, CoreWeave, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), with additional providers as the platform expands.
• Coordinate daily with Networking, Storage, Security, and AI/ML platform teams to resolve cross-system dependencies and improve the end-to-end developer and researcher experience.
• Bring forward well-reasoned proposals, solutions, and informed opinions; use available tools and resources to self-unblock and drive issues to resolution.

Requirements

• Hands-on Kubernetes experience including node pool sizing, scheduler debugging, CNI troubleshooting, and rolling upgrades across fleets.
• Strong Terraform proficiency and experience writing and reviewing production infrastructure as code on a daily basis.
• Practical Python skills for tooling and automation, including the ability to write code without relying on artificial intelligence assistance.
• Strong critical-thinking and debugging skills, with a disciplined approach to forming hypotheses, validating evidence, and isolating root causes.
• Ability to read unfamiliar code, understand its behavior, and diagnose issues effectively.
• Resourcefulness and a consistent ability to self-unblock using documentation, telemetry, code, peers, and available tooling.
• A proactive working style: you arrive with proposals, formulate solutions, and communicate informed technical opinions.
• Clear communication and effective collaboration across engineering teams and technical stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of AWS or similar Cloud services relevant to compute and data-intensive platforms, including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, and Amazon FSx for Lustre.
• Experience designing or operating CI/CD pipelines and automated infrastructure provisioning workflows.
• Knowledge of cloud networking, storage, security, observability, reliability engineering, and platform governance.
• Nice-to-have: Experience using AI coding tools responsibly: you remain accountable for the solution, validate generated code, identify edge cases, and reject unnecessary or incorrect output.

About Us

Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries partner with clients to co-create powerful customer experiences, modern ways of working, and meaningful impact. What sets us apart? We believe work should be challenging and fulfilling, not perfect, but possible. That’s why we prioritize purpose, flexibility, connection, and recognition, so our people can thrive and love what they do, most days.

Pay

The target base salary range for Senior Consultant in East Bay, Silicon Valley, and San Francisco is $149,000‑$185,000. The target base salary range in San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange County, Seattle, Houston, New Jersey, New York City, Westchester, Boston, Washington DC for Senior Consultant is $136,500‑$169,500. The target base salary range for Senior Consultant in all other US based Slalom locations is $125,000‑$155,500. In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary