Senior Cloud Engineer

Job#: 3033435

Job Description:

Title / Position: Senior Cloud Engineer

Location: Charlotte, NC - 4x/week onsite, 1/week remote

Contract Duration: 6+ month contract w/ likelihood to extend longer

Pay: $60-$66.50/hr - W2 w/ benefits (health, vision, dental, 401k)

Summary

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer with a strong background in CI/CD pipeline development and cloud infrastructure to support a growing AI-driven platform environment. This role will focus on designing, enhancing, and maintaining automated deployment pipelines, while collaborating closely with AI development teams to ensure scalable, high-performing infrastructure. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in GitLab-based CI/CD, strong cloud experience (AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform), and a solid understanding of containerized environments. This is not a hands-on application development role - rather, it focuses on infrastructure optimization, performance tuning, and deployment automation in a rapidly evolving cloud ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, with a primary focus on GitLab and Argo-based workflows
• Analyze and leverage existing pipeline frameworks, while creating new pipelines for additional use cases
• Partner with AI/ML development teams to right-size infrastructure and ensure efficient scaling of containerized applications
• Monitor and optimize platform performance, resource utilization, and deployment processes
• Support and contribute to the migration of cloud environments from AWS to Google Cloud Platform
• Provide infrastructure guidance around containerization strategies and best practices
• Ensure deployment pipelines are reliable, repeatable, and aligned with organizational standards
• Collaborate cross-functionally and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Document pipeline processes, standards, and operational procedures

Qualifications
Required

• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering or infrastructure roles
• Strong hands-on experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines, especially with GitLab
• Proven ability to read, understand, and extend existing pipeline architectures
• Experience in at least one major cloud platform: AWS or Google Cloud Platform
• Familiarity with CI/CD or workflows or similar deployment orchestration tools
• Experience working with containerized environments from an infrastructure perspective
• Strong understanding of scalability, system performance, and resource optimization
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work cross-functionally

Preferred (Nice-to-Have)

• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, or container orchestration platforms
• Exposure to Kore.AI platform
• Background in NLP, machine learning, or AI-driven applications
• Knowledge of SIP or Voice over IP (VoIP) technologies
• Experience supporting or executing cloud migrations (AWS to Google Cloud Platform)

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.

Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.