Cloud Engineer — Job Description

Role summary

Designs, deploys, and maintains cloud infrastructure and services to support applications and platforms, ensuring scalability, security, cost-efficiency, and reliability.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate cloud architectures (IaaS/PaaS) on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Build and maintain automated provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi).
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI).
• Manage networking, VPCs, load balancers, DNS, and secure connectivity (VPN, Direct Connect).
• Configure and operate compute, storage, database, and serverless services; optimize for performance and cost.
• Implement observability: monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Cloud-native tools).
• Enforce security best practices: IAM, key/secret management, encryption, vulnerability scanning, and compliance controls.
• Perform backup, disaster recovery planning, and capacity/cost forecasting.
• Troubleshoot production incidents, participate in on-call rotation, and run post-incident reviews.
• Collaborate with developers, SREs, and security teams to design resilient, testable systems and platform services.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to runbooks, documentation, and automation libraries.

Qualifications

• Education: BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Experience: 3–6+ years in cloud engineering or related infrastructure roles; senior roles 5+ years.
• Cloud platforms: Hands-on with AWS, GCP, or Azure services and console/CLI.
• IaC & automation: Strong with Terraform/CloudFormation/Pulumi and configuration management (Ansible, Helm).
• Containers & orchestration: Docker and Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/AKS) experience.
• Scripting/programming: Proficient in Python, Bash, or Go for automation.
• Databases & storage: Familiarity with managed DBs, object/block storage, and caching.
• Observability & tooling: Experience with monitoring, logging, and tracing solutions.
• Security & networking: Solid understanding of IAM, network design, and cloud security practices.
• Soft skills: Problem-solving, communication, and collaboration across teams.

Working conditions

• Cross-functional collaboration; may include on-call duties and occasional after-hours incident work.
• Fast-paced environment with project-driven timelines and cloud migrations.

Performance metrics

• System availability and SLA/SLO adherence.
• Deployment lead time and change failure rate.
• Mean time to recover (MTTR) and incident frequency.
• Infrastructure cost per service and automation coverage.

Pay: $55.39 – $75.75 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Salary packaging

Work Location: In person