Senior Cloud Engineer
Xactus · Broomall, PA · 4 days ago
RemoteRemoteInformation TechnologyFull-time
About the role
We are seeking a hands-on Senior Cloud Engineer to help design, build, and operate platform capabilities that empower product teams across Xactus.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation, or equivalent).
- Build, maintain and evolve GitOps and CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD/Flux, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.) to support self-service platform capabilities and developer workflows.
- Operate and scale Kubernetes-based workloads (EKS/GKE/AKS), including cluster lifecycle, networking, and security hardening.
- Implement and maintain platform observability and reliability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry); define SLIs/SLOs and monitor MTTR.
- Drive platform security and compliance: IAM, secrets management (Vault or similar), certificate management, logging and audit, and partner with InfoSec for audits (SOC2/PCI/etc.).
- Author and review RFCs/ADRs and contribute to platform architecture decisions and Tech Radar.
- Own incident response playbooks and runbooks; participate in on-call rotation and blameless postmortems.
- Build reusable platform modules and templates to accelerate engineering teams’ adoption of platform services.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product teams to onboard services, agree ownership boundaries, and ensure smooth rollouts.
- Mentor and coach junior engineers; participate in hiring and technical interviews.
- Contribute to cost optimization, tooling improvements, and continuous improvement initiatives (hackathons, health assessments).
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in CS IT or related or equivalent (at least 4 years in a Cloud Engineering / Platform Engineering role)
- 5-8 years of professional experience working with cloud platforms (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP acceptable).
- 3-5 years of hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform strongly preferred; Terragrunt/CloudFormation/Pulumi).
- 3-5 years of hands-on experience with cloud-based AI automation platforms (Bedrock, et al.).