Senior Engineer - Cloud Operations

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and operation of secure, scalable, highly available AWS and AWS GovCloud infrastructure supporting the Hypori SaaS platform end to end.
• Set the technical direction for Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation), establishing org-wide standards, reusable modules, and governance patterns other engineers build on.
• Drive engineering tasks for platform reliability, scalability, and capacity; helping define SLA/SLO targets.
• Lead the end-to-end observability strategy — monitoring, logging, alerting, telemetry — across Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, and/or ELK.
• Serve as incident commander for high-severity production events; drive root cause analysis and lead systemic, multi-phase remediation — not just fixes, but prevention.
• Design and implement CI/CD platforms and deployment automation (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS Code Pipeline), championing progressive delivery patterns as the org standard.
• Lead the operation and evolution of containerized workloads on Kubernetes and Docker, making the orchestration and scaling trade-off calls for the platform.
• Proactively identify architectural scalability and performance bottlenecks before they become incidents, and design the systems that eliminate them.
• Partner directly with Security and Compliance leadership to implement secure-by-design infrastructure supporting FedRAMP, DoD IL5, and SOC 2 Type 2 requirements.
• Participate in owning disaster recovery and business continuity — design, test, and continuously validate RTO/RPO targets.
• Identify and develop solutions for cloud cost optimization as a discipline, not a cleanup task — identifying inefficiencies at the design level and implementing measurable, sustained cost controls.
• Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and shape the technical standards the broader team is measured against.
• Lead cross-team resolution of systemic operational issues, delivering road mapped improvements with measurable, reported impact.
• Represent Hypori in technical conversations with external cloud and infrastructure vendors, holding them to performance, reliability, and security commitments.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, SRE, or systems engineering.
• 8+ years in Cloud Ops, SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering, with a demonstrated track record of progression into senior/architectural ownership.
• Deep AWS expertise (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, EBS, EFS, Route 53, CloudWatch); AWS GovCloud experience strongly preferred.
• Proven experience designing multi-account AWS environments and landing zone frameworks (e.g., AWS LZA), including isolation, governance, and guardrail design.
• Expert-level Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or CloudFormation), with a track record of building reusable modules and org-wide standards, not just consuming them.
• Production-grade Kubernetes and Docker experience, with the judgment to make orchestration and architectural trade-off decisions, not just operate what exists.
• CI/CD architecture experience (GitHub Actions, Jenkins), with fluency in modern deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling) as design patterns, not checkboxes.
• Track record operating high-availability SaaS platforms under strict security, reliability, and uptime SLAs.
• Advanced observability and incident management experience (Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK), including designing monitoring/alerting strategy for 24/7 NOC environments.
• Demonstrated incident command experience — leading high-severity incidents from detection through resolution and systemic RCA.
• Experience operating in regulated environments (FedRAMP, DoD IL4/IL5, SOC 2 Type 2), with working knowledge of NIST 800-53.
• Strong grounding in cloud security, compliance, and resilient architecture design.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor senior and mid-level engineers and set technical direction beyond your own individual work.
• Fluency in Git-based workflows and modern development/deployment practices.
• PREFERRED: AWS Solutions Architect Associate (or higher), AWS CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, AWS CodePipeline certifications.

Personal Qualifications

• A strategic, hands-on operator who can independently own ambiguous, high-stakes infrastructure problems and turn them into scalable, durable solutions.
• Sharp architectural judgment — able to weigh trade-offs, make sound calls under uncertainty, and defend those decisions to both engineers and leadership.
• Calm, decisive, and clear-headed under pressure; a natural incident commander others look to during high-severity events.
• A strong communicator who moves easily between engineering, security, and executive conversations, and who elevates the people around them.
• Deep sense of ownership and accountability — treats reliability, automation, and operational excellence as personal standards, not job requirements.
• Genuinely energized by hard infrastructure problems and staying ahead of the cloud landscape.
• Willing to serve as escalation resource in a 24/7 on-call rotation.