Cloud Engineer IV

Job Title: Cloud Engineer IV Contract Duration: 1 Year Engagement Type: Hybrid schedule (Tues-Thurs) required.
Work Location: Burbank, CA Visa Type: Visa Independent candidates

Job Responsibilities / Typical Day in the Role
Lead Cloud Architecture Across Studio Economics
Design and evolve AWS-native infrastructure patterns that support multiple workstreams and applications including Title Economics, Content Sales Planning, and future forecasting tools.
Define and maintain reference architectures, IaC modules, and CI/CD standards that can be adopted across product pods for consistency and reusability.
Support a modular, composable architecture that allows applications to share common services, infrastructure layers, and observability tooling while maintaining domain-level autonomy.
Embed Security, Scalability, and Resilience by Design
Apply best practices for security (e.g., IAM, KMS, audit logging), performance, and cost governance across all environments.
Guide teams in adopting autoscaling, event-driven compute, and fault-tolerant patterns that support high-load events (e.g., major title launches, seasonal planning cycles).
Ensure platform services are hardened for availability, traceability, and recoverability aligned with enterprise compliance and operational standards.
Partner with Platform, Product, and Data Teams
Work closely with the Platform Engineers and DevOps team to define and implement shared infrastructure services that support deployment, monitoring, and environment management.
Support product pods (e.g., Title Economics, Forecasting) by advising on infrastructure design choices, provisioning reusable services, and removing environment blockers.
Collaborate with Data Engineers and MLOps leads to support scalable data and ML pipelines with fit-for-purpose cloud resources (e.g., S3, SageMaker, Databricks, EventBridge).
Drive Platform Enablement and Governance
Develop and maintain infrastructure documentation, templates, operational SLAs, and platform onboarding guides for application teams.
Represent Studio Economics in cross-domain architecture forums and communities of practice to share standards, align decisions, and scale reusable patterns.
Support cloud governance by embedding security, tagging, and resource accountability into all infrastructure as code artifact

Must Have Skills / Requirements
1) Cloud Architecture Depth
a. 7+ years of experience; Designing and supporting AWS-native, cloud-first platforms leveraging services like Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, AppSync, S3, and Cognito.
2) Modern Engineering Practices
a. 7+ years of experience; Experience delivering infrastructure through CI/CD (GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK), and GitOps.
3) Fluency in Data & ML Infrastructure
a. 7+ years of experience; Experience supporting data-intensive applications and enabling cloud resources for AI/ML teams (e.g., MLFlow, SageMaker, Databricks, feature stores).