# Senior Cloud Engineer

**Company:** [Clickhouse](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/clickhouse)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Ansible, Go, Python, Docker, AWS, Azure, GCP, Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, istio
**Posted:** 2026-07-23

> Senior Cloud Engineer building secure, scalable ClickHouse Cloud platform for regulated government and enterprise environments across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem (including air-gapped). Requires 6+ years building distributed systems, Kubernetes expertise, cloud platforms, and automation with Go/Python.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and develop a highly available, scalable, and secure ClickHouse Cloud platform for regulated and mission-critical environments.
- Build innovative deployment automation across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem systems, including disconnected environments when needed.
- Work closely with existing Dataplane and Core teams to ensure software parity with existing cloud infrastructure.
- Solve unique scaling, reliability, and performance challenges in regulated environments.
- Design and deploy ClickHouse Cloud on Kubernetes and containerized environments ensuring high availability, replication, and backup.
- Develop and maintain Helm charts, operators, and Kubernetes manifests for database management.
- Implement repeatable automation to build, scale, and troubleshoot infrastructure components across diverse deployment models.
- Optimize ClickHouse Cloud database performance and storage architecture for on-prem, hybrid, and government cloud deployments.
- Integrate secure authentication, encryption, and access control mechanisms.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation for system architecture, security, and compliance audits.
- Troubleshoot and resolve database performance, security, and operational issues.
- Automate deployments and lifecycle management using Terraform, Ansible, or CI/CD pipelines.

## Requirements
- 6+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
- Experience with ClickHouse or relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) databases.
- Proficiency with Kubernetes tools (Helm, Kustomize, operators, Istio, service mesh).
- Experience with containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift), ideally in regulated or enterprise environments.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or on-prem equivalents).
- Proficiency in programming/scripting languages (Go or Python) for automation and integration.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams.
- Strong problem solver with solid production debugging skills.
- Passionate about efficiency, availability, scalability, and data governance.
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment and see yourself as a partner with the business with the shared goal of moving the business forward.
- High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with secure, regulated, or restricted network environments (including airgapped architectures).

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