Cloud Systems Engineer
Location: Pleasanton, CA (3 days onsite)
Duration: 9-Month W2 Contract (Potential Extension)
Pay Rate: $85–$100/hour (DOE)
Employer: Russell Tobin (supporting a leading enterprise retail organization)
Job Overview
Russell Tobin is supporting a leading enterprise retail organization in hiring a Cloud Systems Engineer to join its Compute & Storage team.
This is a project-focused hybrid infrastructure engineering role — not an operations support position. The engineer will design, build, and automate infrastructure platforms across cloud and on-prem environments as the organization continues major data center retirement and cloud migration initiatives.
The ideal candidate is a strong Linux engineer with deep automation expertise and experience building scalable infrastructure solutions in enterprise environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and build hybrid IaaS infrastructure across Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and on-prem systems
- Support large-scale data center migration initiatives to cloud platforms
- Engineer and modernize infrastructure provisioning pipelines
- Develop automation for cloud orchestration using Terraform and configuration management tools
- Provide Level 3 engineering support for complex Linux and Windows infrastructure (project-based work)
- Build new infrastructure platforms to support product and warehouse systems
- Collaborate cross-functionally with infrastructure and product teams
- Participate in occasional deployment windows (some nights during implementation phases)
Required Qualifications
- 5–6+ years of systems engineering experience
- Strong Linux administration and debugging experience
- Experience building new infrastructure platforms
- Automation expertise (Terraform, Ansible, Python)
- Familiarity with Chef (expertise not required; willingness to work with it)
- Experience with virtualized environments (VMware ESX, Nutanix, or similar)
- Experience supporting Windows Server environments
- Experience working in enterprise IaaS environments
Preferred Qualifications
- Azure infrastructure experience
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) experience
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) exposure
- Oracle KVM
- Warehouse Management Systems experience
- Experience modernizing provisioning pipelines
Top Skill Priorities
- Automation skillsets (Terraform, Ansible, Python)
- Virtualized platforms
- Infrastructure solutions mindset
Work Environment
- 3 days onsite in Pleasanton, CA
- Project-focused engineering team
- Enterprise-scale hybrid cloud environment
- Contract opportunity with strong potential for extension
Pride Global offers eligible employee''s comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.
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