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Senior Cloud Engineer - Real Ownership, Budget, and Leadership Path

careerscape • United States
Full Remote
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Design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure on AWS. Own infrastructure-as-code in Terraform. Optimize cloud cost, performance, and reliability. Mentor engineers on cloud, automation, and SRE best practices. Fully remote with clear path to Senior, Staff, or SRE leadership.

Key Highlights
Real ownership of cloud platform with budget and autonomy
Clear path to Senior, Staff, or SRE leadership roles
Fully remote work environment with flexible hours
Key Responsibilities
Design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure on AWS
Own infrastructure-as-code in Terraform across multiple environments
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling
Optimize cloud cost, performance, and reliability across services
Run incident response and lead post-mortems with clear write-ups
Partner with engineering on architecture, scaling, and migrations
Harden security baselines including IAM, networking, secrets, and audit logging
Mentor engineers on cloud, automation, and SRE best practices
Technical Skills Required
Amazon Web Services Terraform Python, Go, or Bash
Benefits & Perks
Competitive base salary plus annual bonus
Equity participation
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Generous paid time off, paid holidays, paid parental leave
Nice to Have
AWS Solutions Architect Professional or DevOps Engineer Professional certification
Multi-region or multi-account AWS experience
Familiarity with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd) or observability stacks (Datadog, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
Experience leading a cloud migration or major platform upgrade

Job Description

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are supporting our client on a search for a Cloud Engineer who will be the technical owner of their cloud platform. This is a high-trust, hands-on seat reporting to the head of infrastructure with real budget, real ownership, and a clear path into Senior Cloud Engineer, Staff, or SRE leadership roles.

You will work fully remote across US time zones. We are open to senior DevOps and SRE engineers, platform engineers ready to specialize in cloud, and infra-focused software engineers who want to go deeper on AWS.

COMPENSATION

$130,000 – $170,000 base per year, plus annual bonus and equity participation.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

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