Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer

Position: Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer

Location: Remote

Hiring Mode: 6 Months Contract

Job Description:

The Cloud Platform Engineer will architect, develop, and maintain secure, resilient, and high-performance cloud environments across both Azure and AWS (commercial and government clouds). This role is critical to supporting rapid business growth, driving automation, and enabling engineering teams to deliver at scale. The engineer will collaborate closely with software, DevOps, and architecture teams, and will play a key part in operationalizing new platforms, supporting migrations, and ensuring compliance and security.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect, build, and operate IaaS and PaaS infrastructure in Azure and AWS (commercial and government clouds).
• Lead and support large-scale environment builds (e.g., 40+ environments in 6 months), including planning, tracking, and cross-team coordination.
• Drive automation for provisioning, configuration, deployment, monitoring, and incident response.
• Integrate and administer observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, Azure Monitor) and central logging solutions.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Pulumi, and related tools.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters (managed environments), including deployment tooling (Helm, ArgoCD, Flux, cdk8s).
• Collaborate with product, SWE, InfoSec, and vendor teams to define and enforce clear RASCI models and ownership boundaries.
• Implement and improve operational tooling, frameworks, and self-healing systems.
• Automate alerts for performance, cost, vulnerabilities, risk, and compliance.
• Support on-call rotations and respond to production incidents.
• Ensure compliance with security standards (encryption, PKI, IAM, OWASP) and support audit evidence collection.
• Champion continuous improvement, process automation, and adoption of new technologies.

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years in a cloud engineering or SRE role.
• Deep hands-on experience with Azure and AWS (other cloud providers a plus).
• Expert in Kubernetes cluster setup, management, and troubleshooting (managed environments only).
• Proficient with IaC tools (Terraform, Pulumi).
• Experience with Kubernetes deployment tools (Helm, ArgoCD, Flux, cdk8s).
• Strong networking and internet protocol knowledge.
• Understanding of IAM, encryption, PKI, and security best practices.
• Experience supporting production cloud infrastructure and on-call operations.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (Azure Monitor, Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus).
• Proficient with Git and modern IDEs (e.g., VS Code).
• Strong communication and cross-team collaboration skills.
• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, IT, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Experience leading environment migrations and large-scale build-outs.
• Track record of learning and adopting new tools and technologies.
• Experience with compliance, audit support, and regulated environments.
• Familiarity with RASCI modeling and cross-functional project leadership.

What Success Looks Like:

• Rapid, reliable delivery of new environments and platforms.
• High automation coverage and minimal manual intervention.
• Strong security posture and audit readiness.
• Clear ownership and accountability across teams.
• Proactive identification and resolution of operational risks.