Senior Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design and develop infrastructure solutions to support business functions, processes, and applications
• Maintain and build infrastructure to standards, performing updates and upgrades to environments, tools and scripts
• Monitor and acknowledge alerts and provide root cause analysis
• Implement and manage AWS infrastructure using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or other IaC tools
• Leverage AWS services such as EC2, VPC, ALB/NLB, Route53, S3, Lambda, Systems Manager, Step Functions, and Image Builder for scalable, repeatable environments
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions) to automate testing, deployment, and rollback processes
• Understand the nuances of single-tenant SaaS applications, including tenant isolation, customer-specific configurations, and version control
• Work closely with product and engineering teams to plan deployments, manage upgrades, and ensure consistency across multiple customer instances
• Work with teams to ensure minimal downtime and swift recovery from deployment issues
• Works with managers and directors to implement tactical solutions to ensure continuity of operations are maintained and recurring problems are prevented or eliminated
• Advanced troubleshooting and problem skills to solve complex issues with or without documented
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop tools and processes that improve deployment reliability and velocity
• Perform root-cause analysis on production incidents and implement preventive measures

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred, or equivalent, in area of specialty
• 6-8 years’ experience in the field or related area
• Ability to guide a team of admins through a project to completion and directs work of others
• Ability to identify, develop & document business requirements, technical requirements and functional designs
• Administer AWS infrastructure including Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), SC, Identity Access Management (IAM), Elastic Block Store (EBS), Security Groups, Auto Scaling, and Relational Database Service (RDS)
• Establish federated identity solutions between on-premises and commercial clouds
• Develop and maintain standards for operations of core AWS components
• Provide analytics to leadership related to costs/capacity/administration
• Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or other IaC tools to provision and manage cloud infrastructure
• Familiarity with Git, GitHub Actions, or similar CI/CD platforms
• Knowledge of best practices for branching, testing, and release management
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools like CloudWatch, Datadog, or similar
• Demonstrated experience using Terraform, CloudFormation, or other IaC tools to provision and manage cloud infrastructure
• Passion for defining best practices, coding standards, and design patterns
• Must be able to make or recommend quick decisions
• Must be able to absorb new technologies and implement them quickly and thoroughly
• Ability to work well with a cross-functional, geographically dispersed team and customer base
• Strong verbal and written communications skills and ability to lead effectively across organizations
• Must be able to prioritize large lists of tasks effectively