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Sr. Cloud Engineer

Request Technology, LLCChicago, IL🇺🇸United States

Why this role stands out

This Sr. Cloud Engineer role offers significant opportunities to shape critical cloud infrastructure and automate solutions using AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes, making it ideal for experienced engineers passionate about cloud-native technologies. You'll thrive here if you possess deep expertise in CI/CD, IaC, and Linux-based systems, contributing to a dynamic team building innovative platforms. Apply now to leverage your skills and grow your career in a bonus-eligible position!

Quick overview

SeniorityMid Senior
Work modeHybrid
LocationChicago, IL, United States
GitAWSGitHub ActionsGoogle CloudJenkinsPythonTerraformVaultKubernetesCI/CDLinuxIAM

Job description

***We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent full time role***

***Hybrid, 4 days onsite, 1 day remote***

Responsibilities:

· Build and maintain a globally distributed cloud infrastructure platform using Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)

· Collaborate with Cloud Platform Engineering and business unit application teams to engineer infrastructure solutions for their cloud-based applications

· Design, deploy, and operate Kubernetes-based platforms and workloads (EKS, Cluster API), including GitOps workflows (e.g., Argo CD)

· Support and enhance CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation

· Perform system and database maintenance, including application deployment, backup and restoration, patching, and upgrades

· Maintain cloud environments through incident response, troubleshooting, and performance tuning

· Participate in on-call rotations and support operational readiness

· Lead implementation of cloud infrastructure projects from design through delivery

· Own complex workstreams end-to-end — scope, sequencing, and hand-off to operations

· Lead design discussions and reviews, and provide technical direction and feedback to other engineers

· Define and evolve the patterns and standards that keep the platform consistent and maintainable

· Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to ensure systems are secure and compliant

· Create and maintain clear, accurate documentation — infrastructure designs, standard operating procedures, and support runbooks — tailored to the target audience (e.g., engineers, support staff)

Qualifications:

· 6+ years of experience working with public cloud platforms (AWS and Google Cloud Platform preferred) in a professional setting. 

· Deep, hands-on experience deploying and managing Kubernetes (EKS, GKE) and GitOps (Argo CD). 

· Deep, hands-on experience using Terraform, CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions), and scripting languages (Python) to deploy, maintain, and support cloud infrastructure. 

· Strong experience supporting containerized applications and Linux-based systems. 

· Strong understanding of networking, IAM, cloud observability, and common cloud services such as AWS VPC, EC2, S3, SNS, SQS, and Lambda. 

· Familiarity with managing secrets and sensitive configuration using tools such as HashiCorp Vault. 

· Experience designing, deploying, and operating fault-tolerant systems with on-call responsibilities. 

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