Senior Cloud Engineer
United StatesRemote5+ YOE
Summary
Senior Cloud Engineer responsible for building and maintaining scalable, compliant AWS/Kubernetes infrastructure with full CI/CD automation, monitoring, and security controls in a regulated healthcare environment.
About the role
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain a container-based infrastructure that is elegant, redundant, scalable, and compliant
- Deliver end-to-end automation of deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management in AWS as part of an Agile development team
- Collaborate with other teams to identify and implement effective solutions
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines in a reproducible and secure manner
- Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure issues; perform root cause analysis
- Collaborate with developers to ensure applications and services are built with scalability, reliability, and security in mind
- Maintain high levels of systems and infrastructure availability
- Explore new technologies, apply best practices, and drive innovation
- Develop custom scripts to increase system efficiency and reduce manual intervention
- Maintain security program controls and best practices
- Ensure continuous compliance with HIPAA and SOC2 frameworks
- Make pragmatic decisions about technical tradeoffs, infrastructure costs, and resource utilization
- Participate in on-call PagerDuty rotations
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering
- BS or advanced degree in computer science or related field
- Extensive experience in containerized Cloud Native environments, specifically AWS and Kubernetes/EKS
- Experience with modern monitoring tools (CloudWatch, EventBridge, Datadog) and establishing metrics, monitoring, alarming, and dashboards
- Experience managing change management practices, policies, and procedures
- Experience deploying and monitoring applications in AWS at scale
- Security-first mindset with experience building secure development and test environments integrated into CI/CD pipelines
- Experience building and maintaining container-based infrastructure and Kubernetes
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform a plus), DevOps, SRE concepts and best practices
- Experience with infrastructure automation, systems reliability, load balancing, monitoring, logging
- Experience with FinOps practices and establishing related governance programs
- Experience fully automating CI/CD pipelines with tools such as GitHub Actions
- Experience working in and architecting for regulated environments with data privacy regulations (HIPAA, GDPR preferred)
- Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases (RDS, Redis, Redshift, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Snowflake)
- Strong scripting skills in Python, Shell, etc.
Nice-to-Haves
- Terraform experience
- Experience with GDPR compliance
Compensation & Benefits
- Highly competitive wellness benefits (Medical, Pharmacy, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, AD&D)
- Flexible Spending Benefits
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Program
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Discretionary Paid Time Off
- Paid Company Holidays
- Commuter Benefits
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Professional development and training opportunities
Skills
AWSKubernetesEKSTerraformCI/CDGitHub ActionsCloudWatchDatadogPythonShellRDSRedisRedshiftDynamoDBPostgreSQL