Cloud Engineer/Senior Engineer

This position is responsible for providing secure, scalable cloud-based solutions. The Cloud Engineer ensures servers and services are configured using industry best practices for reliability and can scale environments based on client needs. You should be patient, possess strong communication skills, and demonstrate a desire to learn new technologies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide and design secure, scalable solutions in the cloud for client environments
• Implement system hardening, security best practices, and configuration management across cloud infrastructure and client servers
• Build and manage code release pipelines for development, staging, and production environments
• Implement and maintain infrastructure as code
• Configure new CloudWatch monitoring alerts and dashboards
• Maintain uptime, service reliability, and sustainability of cloud infrastructure and hosted applications
• Maintain an accurate inventory of existing server, storage, networking, software/hardware, and virtual environments to support scaling for various project requirements
• Help developers and DevOps teams build new services using containers (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Identify pain points and bottlenecks in the development lifecycle, and find ways to automate processes to support development and IT teams
• Ensure servers and services are configured using standard best practices for reliability and scale based on client needs

As a Senior Engineer, your additional responsibilities will include:

• Independently driving the design and implementation of cloud solutions, identifying infrastructure needs and executing deployments with minimal supervision
• Conducting in-depth reviews of infrastructure architecture, code (Terraform, CloudFormation), and deployment pipelines to ensure alignment with security standards, scalability goals, and best practices
• Mentoring junior engineers, offering technical guidance, reviewing their work, and supporting professional development through knowledge sharing and collaboration

Technical Qualifications:

• Experience working on cloud technologies like AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Experience in Windows, Windows Server, Linux/Ubuntu, and Mac OS
• Strong understanding of implementing and configuring Docker and Kubernetes setups
• Good understanding of using monitoring tools like PRTG, AWS CloudWatch, New Relic
• Good understanding of networking concepts to help implement new services and troubleshoot issues—DNS, DHCP, software update server, deployment server, file server, firewall, routing, switching
• Understanding of server roles on a network
• Good knowledge of implementing and configuring continuous integration tools like Jenkins, GitLab
• Knowledge of creating scripts using Bash, Python, AutoIT
• Knowledge of working on Terraform and AWS CloudFormation

Personal Skills:

• Ability to communicate well verbally and in writing with various levels, from junior developers to executive staff
• Ability to quickly find optimal solutions and apply quick fixes
• Ability to stay calm and professional when troubleshooting and resolving support issues
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Ability to quickly learn new concepts and software
• Ability to adjust tasks and schedules to adapt to changing priorities

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in a computer-related field
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in cloud engineering or infrastructure roles