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Senior Central Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Senior engineer responsible for architecting and maintaining scalable AWS cloud infrastructure, leading modernization initiatives, and ensuring PCI/SOC2 compliance. Requires 5+ years experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, observability, and production cloud systems.

160k – 200kNew York, NYDevOps / SREOnsite5+ YOE

About the role

What you'll do

  • Architect, implement, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure environments across multiple company products
  • Design and manage infrastructure modernization initiatives (CI/CD, IaC, K8s, AI, etc) and lead the complex integration of legacy or established systems into modern, cloud-native environments
  • Craft comprehensive disaster recovery strategies and engineer production-grade technical solutions to safeguard system uptime
  • Serve as a technical focal point for troubleshooting, system deep-dives, and resolving infrastructure bottlenecks across both Linux and Windows operating systems
  • Ensure global cloud environments continuously meet and exceed stringent security guidelines and technical compliance frameworks, specifically PCI and SOC2
  • Lead incident response and root-cause analysis, and champion blameless postmortems and error-budget discipline across the team
  • Provide technical leadership and guidance to junior and mid-level engineers, helping to scale the infrastructure team's overall technical competency

What we're looking for

  • Hold a BS degree in Computer Science (or a relevant technical/engineering discipline) and 5+ years of hands-on experience, or equivalent professional experience (8+ years) working in high-growth cloud environments
  • Demonstrate deep production-level technical experience using AWS, Terraform, Atmos, and Python (or equivalent automation language - Bash/Go)
  • Demonstrate hands-on expertise with a modern observability stack (Datadog or equivalent: APM/distributed tracing, logs, metrics, RUM), including defining SLOs/SLIs and managing monitors-as-code
  • Leverage production experience with service mesh and L7 proxies (Envoy/Istio) and Kubernetes ingress in high-throughput request paths
  • Utilize advanced operational knowledge of Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, and overall container orchestration
  • Apply strong secrets-management and rotation practices (Infisical, Vault, or AWS Secrets Manager) in a PCI/SOC2 context
  • Showcase hands-on experience working with managed streaming data infrastructure via AWS MSK (Kafka) alongside various SQL and NoSQL AWS managed database solutions, including Amazon Aurora
  • Maintain a strong understanding of cloud networking architecture, security protocols, and firewalls
  • Exhibit expert competency managing, configuring, and troubleshooting Linux (and Windows where applicable) server environments
  • Use excellent written and verbal communication skills to translate complex infrastructure concepts into clear, actionable technical documentation

Nice to have

  • Previous experience working inside innovative, high-growth tech start-ups or fast-paced corporate engineering environments

Compensation

  • Anticipated base salary: $160,000 - $200,000 USD annually
  • Access to healthcare benefits, 401(k) plan, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, stock option plan, bonus plans

Skills

AWSTerraformPythonKubernetesEKSHelmDatadogEnvoyIstioKafkaAmazon AuroraLinuxWindowsCI/CDIac

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