Senior Cloud Engineer

**_About the Role_**

As a Cloud Engineer, you will help build, scale, and secure our Internal Developer Platform to improve developer efficiency and system reliability.

You will champion reliable, scalable, and secure solutions, ensuring that our Internal Developer Platform acts as a point of leverage for the company’s products.

**_ Key Responsibilities_**

**Technical Leadership**
- Design, implement and maintain technical strategies that align with business goals.
- Evaluate emerging technologies to enhance system performance and scalability.
- Establish best practices to consistently deliver high quality and maintainable products.

**Cloud Infrastructure Provisioning & Operations (AWS)**
- Design, implement and operate our Internal Developer Platform on cloud-native infrastructure.
- Manage cloud infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Design and implement GitOps workflow.
- Optimize cloud resource allocation to ensure high availability, scalability, and cost efficiency.

**Monitoring, Observability & Incident Response**
- Build comprehensive monitoring and observability solutions to track system performance.
- Participate in incident response, conduct root cause analysis to minimize downtime and resolve issues quickly.
- Implement preventive measures to avoid future incidents.
- Maintain incident response playbooks and ensure efficient on-call rotations.

**Software Pipelines & Shift-Left Practices**
- Design and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines that facilitate efficient, automated software delivery.
- Embed shift-left practices across development, testing, security, and compliance workflow to catch issues early.
- Automate checks for policy enforcement and infrastructure drift detection.

**Security, Compliance & Disaster Recovery**
- Define and enforce security best practices across the platform, ensuring regulatory and internal compliance requirements are met.
- Harden and manage VPC, subnets, routing, security groups, and IAM.
- Develop and test disaster recovery plans and backup strategies to minimize downtime.

**Team Development**
- Provide feedback, conduct reviews and mentor peers to foster professional growth.
- Cultivate a collaborative learning environment and knowledge sharing that encourages continuous improvement.

**Cross-Functional Collaboration**
- Partner effectively with Product Engineers, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to align goals and deliverables.
- Communicate technical challenges and opportunities clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

**_ Required Qualifications_**
- ** DevOps and Platform Engineering Experience**: Proven track record in operating AWS cloud infrastructure at scale with IaC (Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, or similar tools), building scalable Internal Developer Platforms (React/Typescript, Python, Go, or similar tools for automation), implementing monitoring/observability solutions (Datadog, ELK, Prometheus, or similar tools), managing incidents, and designing secure, reliable pipelines.
- **Cloud-Native Proficiency**:Familiar with the landscape of cloud-native technologies and able to discern when and how to adopt them.
- **Shift-Left Mindset**:Prior experience embedding testing, security, and compliance practices early in the software development lifecycle.
- **Professional Communication**:Ability to respectfully disagree and seek to understand before being understood. Communicates clearly, values commitments, and acts with integrity.
- **Business Outcome Focus**:Strong decision-making skills that prioritize practical impact on business goals when considering new tools and architectures.

**_ Expected Impact Timeline_**

**In your first month, you will**:

- Get up to speed on our internal platform, AWS infrastructure, processes, and team dynamics.
- Build relationships with teammates and understand their strengths.

**By month 3, you will**:

- Actively contribute to planning by identifying internal platform improvements and collaborating on roadmap initiatives.
- Begin leading technical discussions and offering solutions to optimize performance, monitoring, and automation.

**By month 6, you will**:

- Own key platform projects end-to-end or with your team, ensuring reliability, security, and cost effectiveness.
- Shape long-term technical strategy alongside your manager, influencing broader platform decisions.