Senior Cloud Engineer

Job Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Cloud Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and optimization of our cloud infrastructure. This role will play a critical part in building scalable, secure, and high-performing cloud environments that support modern, containerized applications.

The ideal candidate will have deep experience with cloud platforms, primarily AWS, and a strong background in infrastructure as code, automation, and system reliability. This individual will work cross-functionally with engineering, security, and operations teams to ensure our cloud architecture meets both performance and compliance requirements.

This is a hands-on technical role with ownership over cloud strategy, architecture, and continuous improvement initiatives, including cost optimization, system resilience, and operational excellence.

This is an on-site role supporting our Chandler, AZ office.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with application development teams to design, architect, and implement scalable cloud solutions, with a focus on containerized applications
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure cloud environments meet audit, logging, and monitoring requirements
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) to enable automated, repeatable, and reliable deployments
• Configure, monitor, and support cloud infrastructure and services to ensure high availability, performance, and security
• Lead and support cloud migration efforts, including planning, execution, and optimization of workloads
• Create and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and best practices
• Continuously evaluate and improve cloud environments for cost efficiency, scalability, and resilience

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS core services (e.g., compute, storage, networking, IAM)
• Experience designing and supporting containerized workloads (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions
• Strong understanding of cloud security principles and best practices
• Basic experience with PostgreSQL administration
• Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, security, and operations teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in regulated or compliance-driven environments
• Familiarity with NIST 800-53 and/or FedRAMP frameworks
• Background in network or systems administration
• Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices
• Familiarity with observability tools such as Splunk
• Experience with Microsoft Azure in addition to AWS