Position: Senior Cloud Engineer
Location: 100% Remote (Norfolk, CA)
Duration: Long-term Contract
Top Skills Required:
- AWS & Azure Cloud Expertise
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- CI/CD pipelines, Ansible, Packer, Python, and cloud-native automations
Job Description/ Responsibilities:
Job Title: Cloud Engineer Sr. Cloud Engineer - Cloud Engineering & Operations
About the Role: We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Sr. cloud Engineer and operations specialists. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical expertise in cloud infrastructure and operations, and a passion for building resilient, scalable, and efficient cloud environments.
Key Responsibilities:
• Senior cloud engineer providing technical direction, mentorship, and support for junior engineers
• Collaborate with product managers, security teams, and other stakeholders to define infrastructure and platform requirements and delivery timelines
• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions
• Develops and review infrastructure code, enforce best practices, and ensures compliance with security standards
• Support sprint planning, task allocation, and operational performance tracking
• Identify and address technical challenges, including system reliability and performance issues
• Foster a culture of automation, observability, and continuous improvement
• Stay up to date with industry trends, cloud technologies, and DevOps practices
• Creates and updates Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, Ansible, Packer, Python, and cloud-native automations.
• Manages Web Application Firewall (WAF) configurations, certificates, and automations for web applications
• Leads disaster recovery designs and automations for cloud deployed components.
• Leads the ITIL processes - incident, request, change management and may coordinate with other teams as necessary.
Requirements:
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering or operations, with at least 2 years in a senior role
• 5+ years with cloud PaaS services – Relational databases, API Gateways, storage, Firewalls, Caching, Lambda, AKS, EKS, etc.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• 5+ years with Infrastructure as Code using following technologies - Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Packer
• 5 years Python, Golang, or other automation programming languages
• 7+ years Experience with Agile and DevOps methodologies
• 3 years of experience with Jenkins, GitLab.
• 1-3 years in cloud design patterns, Containers/ Kubernetes, and designing cloud solutions
• 3+ year with cloud networking, load balancers, Akamai WAF, and monitoring tools.
• 3+ yrs Wiz and GuardDuty, and App security tools - WhiteSource or Checkmarx