Cloud Engineer
Posted 13 Oct 2026
Advertised as “Senior Cloud Engineer”
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The original posting with the fluff stripped out
- Expected experience
- 8+ yrs
- Management level
- People management
- Employment
- Hybrid
- Contract
- Full-time
- Visa sponsorship
- Not offered
No salary listed for this role.
Field of studyComputer Science, Engineering (or related)
Study levelBachelor's
Study levelDoctorate
About the Role:
*THIS POSITION DOES NOT OFFER VISA SPONSORSHIP, NOW OR AT ANY TIME IN THE FUTURE*
The Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer will lead the design, implementation, and optimization of scalable, secure, and highly available cloud and on-prem infrastructure. This role partners closely with application development, security, and infrastructure teams to drive automation, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency across the organization.
As a senior-level contributor, you will provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, influence architectural decisions, and own complex cloud and DevOps initiatives from design through production. The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on expertise in cloud platforms, virtualization, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and cloud cost optimization (FinOps) in hybrid environments.
We are seeking a Mid-Senior DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of relevant experience who is eager to grow their skills and contribute to our dynamic team. This is a hybrid position, and we expect the candidate to work 2-3 days a week on-site at our office.
Responsibilities:
- Lead collaboration with application development teams to design and implement reliable, automated CI/CD pipelines
- Architect, implement, and maintain cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code best practices
- Drive automation initiatives across provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and recovery processes
- Design, implement, and maintain observability platforms, with a strong focus on Datadog for metrics, logs, traces, and alerting
- Establish monitoring, SLOs, and alerting strategies to improve system reliability and reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR)
- Own and optimize cloud cost efficiency, identifying savings opportunities and implementing cost controls without compromising performance
- Implement and maintain configuration management using tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
- Own and optimize VMware environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance
- Serve as a senior escalation point for production incidents, performing root cause analysis and driving long-term remediation
- Partner with security teams to enforce infrastructure security, compliance, and best practices
- Lead disaster recovery planning, testing, and continuous improvement efforts