Senior Cloud Engineer

Location: Irving, TX, United States. Type: Full-Time. Department: Information Technology. Language Requirement: Fluency in English (required).

Demonstrate Biblical Integrity At Samaritan's Purse, the Gospel is the center of all we do! We start each day with a time of devotions and prayer for each other, our staff, and volunteers who serve around the world. As a faith-driven organization, our Statement of Faith shapes every aspect of our global work. Please take time to review the following link as you consider working with us: https://www.samaritanspurse.org/our-ministry/statement-of-faith/

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to join our Information Technology team in Irving, TX. Through humanitarian work, the goal and purpose of Samaritan's Purse are to help people in Jesus' name and share the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a personal, active relationship with Jesus Christ and is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ.
• Architect, design, build, maintain, and optimize secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and platform services supporting reliable deployment and operation of ministry-critical workloads across development and production environments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and application delivery using Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, AI tools, and modern engineering practices to improve efficiency, consistency, and reliability.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to Cloud Engineers, promoting engineering excellence, skill development, technical consistency, and continuous improvement across the team.
• Lead infrastructure monitoring, incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term remediation, driving improvements in platform resilience, performance, cost efficiency, and maintainability.
• Partner with cybersecurity, compliance, and technical teams to implement cloud security, governance, and access-control best practices while evaluating emerging technologies and developing internal tooling and documentation.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field of study and seven (7) or more years of Cloud Engineering experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and Linux administration, including deploying, managing, troubleshooting, and optimizing containerized workloads at scale, with supporting experience in Docker and related container technologies.
• Experience with cloud and platform technologies, including virtualization and distributed storage solutions such as VMware, oVirt, and Hyper-V.
• Working knowledge of automation, scripting, observability, and security tooling, including Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, Python, Grafana, Prometheus, firewalls, and