Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Job Title: Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Job Location: Indianapolis, IN

Job Type: Contract

Pay Range: $100.10hr - $105.10hr

Job Overview:

The Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable, and reliable cloud-based solutions. This role supports business objectives by optimizing cloud infrastructure, automating deployments, and ensuring compliance with security and performance standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure: Design and deploy cloud architectures across AWS and/or Azure that meet performance, security, availability, and cost-efficiency requirements for a diverse portfolio of enterprise and research applications.
• Architect and implement cloud networking, compute, storage, and identity constructs with security built in from the outset, applying least-privilege principles, network segmentation, encryption, and defense-in-depth across every layer.
• Evaluate and recommend cloud services, architectural patterns, and infrastructure approaches, building evidence-based adoption cases that account for engineering capability, operational cost, and long-term platform sustainability.
• Automation & Deployment: Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) frameworks using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or equivalent, making infrastructure provisioning repeatable, auditable, and developer-friendly.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for cloud infrastructure and application deployments, ensuring changes are tested, validated, and deployed safely with automated rollback capability.
• Drive automation of operational tasks, including patching, scaling, monitoring, alerting, and cost optimization, reducing manual intervention and improving platform reliability and response time.
• Security & Compliance: Ensure cloud environments comply with security standards, regulatory requirements, and data governance policies, implementing and maintaining controls for identity management, secrets management, audit logging, and encryption at rest and in transit.
• Monitor cloud security posture continuously, identifying and remediating misconfigurations, drift, and policy violations while integrating CSPM tooling into operational workflows for proactive compliance management.
• Partner with Cybersecurity teams to align cloud platform security with enterprise threat models and applicable regulatory frameworks including GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, HIPAA, and SOX where relevant.
• Optimization & Operational Excellence: Monitor cloud environments for performance, availability, and cost efficiency, proactively identifying waste, right-sizing resources, and driving FinOps practices that deliver cloud value without unnecessary spend.
• Contribute to platform engineering standards, reference architectures, and guardrails that simplify how development teams consume cloud infrastructure correctly and consistently.
• Troubleshoot and resolve cloud infrastructure issues with urgency and precision, contributing to post-incident analysis and implementing preventive improvements that reduce recurrence.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on cloud engineering experience in a production enterprise environment (AWS and/or Azure required).
• Demonstrated proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or equivalent) and version control (Git).
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, or equivalent) for automation and tooling development.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, virtualization, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and cloud security principles.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices in a cloud-native context.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional), AWS DevOps Engineer, or Azure Administrator/Architect certification strongly preferred.
• Experience with FinOps practices and cloud cost optimization at enterprise scale.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, or equivalent).
• Experience in pharmaceutical, healthcare, life sciences, or other regulated industries, particularly with GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, or HIPAA cloud compliance requirements.
• Experience with Kubernetes in production (EKS, AKS, or self-managed) including cluster operations and workload management.
• Experience with Site Reliability Engineering or Agent Reliability Engineering.
• Background in working in a fast-paced Agile environment.
• Background in cloud security architecture: IAM design, secrets management, network security groups, and cloud-native security tooling.

Requirements:

• Deep, hands-on cloud expertise to build and operate production cloud infrastructure, holding accountability for reliability, security, and cost.
• Infrastructure-as-code as a default practice: ability to write Terraform or equivalent as naturally as using the cloud console for consistency, auditability, and scale.
• A security-conscious engineering mindset to design with least privilege, defense in depth, and compliance requirements built in from the start.
• A cost-conscious approach to design systems that deliver value without unnecessary spend and proactively surface optimization opportunities.

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• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Disability Insurance (Short-Term and Long-Term)
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Paid Sick Leave (where required by applicable state or local law)
• Supplemental Insurance Plans
• Identity Theft Protection
• Pet Insurance
• Employee Wellness Programs
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Career Growth and Professional Development Opportunities