Senior Cloud Engineer

Role and responsibilities

• Designs, builds, and optimizes cloud-native applications and infrastructure with a strong focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), automation, and AI-driven capabilities.
• Collaborates with engineering and business teams to deliver scalable, secure, high-performance solutions.
• Begins to architect, deploy, and maintain GCP-based platforms, integrating AI/ML services, data pipelines, and automated infrastructure.
• Builds and supports cloud-native applications, including installation, patching, performance tuning, and systems hardening.
• Implements monitoring, observability, and logging using tools such as Splunk and native GCP services.
• Troubleshoots complex distributed systems using diagnostic tools and structured problem analysis.
• Serves as Tier 1 / Tier 2 escalation for cloud and platform issues, ensuring fast resolution and clear communication.
• Drives CI/CD automation, Git-based workflows, and cloud release management.
• Proposes and implements improvements to system performance, reliability, cloud cost efficiency, and developer experience.
• Ensures compliance with IT standards, security policies, and service-level requirements.
• Supports engineering use cases by provisioning environments, automating workflows, and optimizing cloud resource utilization.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field; Master’s a plus.
• 5+ years supporting large-scale software or cloud environments.
• Expertise with Google Cloud Platform (Compute, IAM, Networking, GCS, Cloud Build, GKE, AI Platform).
• Experience with Azure and hybrid cloud architectures.
• Strong background in: Linux (RHEL/CentOS), Networking (TCP/IP, UDP), CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools, Version control (Git/SVN), Application lifecycle tools (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket), VM and storage management (NFS, SMB, ZFS, NAS), VMware and enterprise hardware environments, Scripting expertise: Python, Bash, Perl, Ruby.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum or SAFe methodologies.
• Experience supporting AI/ML workflows a plus (e.g., model deployment, GPU workloads, data orchestration).

Skills

• Strong analytical thinking, initiative, and problem-solving ability.
• Effective communicator with strong customer and stakeholder focus.
• Proactive, organized, and detail-oriented.
• Practical mindset with the ability to assess decisions from a user-impact perspective.
• Collaborative team player with high motivation and ownership.

Other Information

• This position is located on-site in Wilton, CT.
• It requires onsite presence to attend in-person work-related events, trainings and meetings and to further ensure teamwork, collaboration and innovation.
• A flexible workplace arrangement may be available to employees working in roles conducive to remote work (up to two days a week).
• Routinely required to sit; walk; talk; hear; use hands to keyboard, finger, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, reach, and stretch.
• Occasionally required to move around the campus.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Must be willing to work in a clean room environment, wearing coveralls, hoods, booties, safety glasses and gloves for entire duration of shift.
• Routine exposure to strong magnetic fields, high voltage and currents.
• This position requires access to controlled technology, as defined in the United States Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. 730, et seq.). Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access such controlled technology prior to beginning work.

Inclusion and diversity

• ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce.
• The company is committed to recruiting, hiring, training and promoting persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
• We recognize that inclusion and diversity is a driving force in the success of our company.