Senior Cloud Engineer

We are seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer to drive the architecture, design, and implementation of our AWS and Azure cloud environments. In this role, you will work closely with the Sr. Director, Infrastructure & Security and IT Infrastructure team to establish best practices, drive automation and DevOps adoption, ensure security and compliance, and optimize cloud operations to support the company's strategic objectives.

Role & responsibilities:

The position responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Architect, design, and engineer highly available, scalable, and secure cloud solutions across AWS and Azure, supporting both existing and new cloud-native applications.
• Lead automation and Infrastructure-as-Code initiatives using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, and other automation frameworks to ensure repeatable, reliable deployments.
• Establish and enforce DevOps best practices for CI/CD, observability, configuration, and release automation.
• Mentor junior engineers on pipelines, automation workflows, and operational excellence.
• Drive identity/access management (IAM), encryption, monitoring, and governance best practices.
• Collaborate with Security and Compliance teams to implement and maintain cloud security controls, conduct risk assessments, and ensure adherence to standards such as HIPAA and SOC2.
• Optimize cloud performance and costs by conducting usage analysis, rightsizing workloads, and improving overall architecture efficiency.
• Drive the migration and modernization of legacy applications into cloud-native, resilient, and performant architectures.
• Partner with application development teams to design end-to-end cloud solutions aligned with business, performance, and security requirements.
• Stay current with emerging cloud technologies, evaluate new tools and services, and provide technical leadership on their adoption within ARCHER.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to provide Tier 3 support, rapid incident response, and root-cause analysis across production cloud environments.
• Perform additional responsibilities as required by the Sr. Director, Infrastructure & Security.

Preferred candidate profile:

Must Have Skills/Experience:

• Bachelors degree in

  computer science, Engineering

  , or a related technical field

• 8+ years

  of experience designing, implementing, and operating complex cloud environments

• 5+ years

  of hands-on experience with

  AWS and/or Azure

• Expert-level understanding of key AWS services (e.g.,

  EC2/S3/VPC/IAM/RDS)

  and/or Azure equivalents
• Extensive experience with

  Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

  tools such as

  Terraform

  ,

  Ansible

  , CloudFormation, etc.
• Strong background in

  DevOps

  , CI/CD pipelines, and tools like

  Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions

  , Azure DevOps, etc.
• Deep knowledge of

  cloud security best practices

  , compliance frameworks, and implementation of security controls
• Demonstrated ability to

  optimize cloud spend

  and improve architecture efficiency
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell or Bash