Senior Cloud Engineer
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Houston, Texas, United States
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred
- 7-8+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering
- 5+ years designing, operating, and optimizing complex enterprise environments across Windows, Linux, and SQL-based systems
- Strong expertise in enterprise data center technologies, including Storage platforms, Network switching and Security infrastructure
- Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred; Azure or GCP acceptable)
- Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Advanced knowledge of virtualization and container platforms: VMware (vSphere, ESXi, vCenter) and Docker/Kubernetes in production environments
- Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, and/or Go
- Experience implementing observability and monitoring solutions, including Datadog
- Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to manage priorities, influence stakeholders, and lead technical initiatives
Nice to have
- Experience leading large-scale cloud migrations to AWS.
- Strong SQL Server administration experience.
- CI/CD expertise with Jenkins, GitLab CI, Git, Jira, or CircleCI.
- Cloud cost optimization and FinOps experience (rightsizing, RI/Savings Plans, tagging, budgets).
- Ability to establish DevOps and cloud governance standards.
Full description
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
- Perform regular system performance tuning, capacity planning, and cost analysis
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and contribute to technical standards and documentation
- Create and maintain detailed architecture diagrams and operational documentation