Senior Cloud Engineer

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• 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.

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

KNOWLEDGE, SILLS, ABILITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to executive audiences

• Customer-centric mindset with a focus on leveraging technology to drive business outcomes

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Masters degree in computer science, Engineering or related field

• Experience supporting healthcare or legal technology environments

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerization technologies

• Familiarity with serverless architectures and technologies (Lambda, Azure Functions, etc.)

• Experience with big data and machine learning workloads on cloud platforms

• Relevant Cloud certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, Azure Architect, etc.

• Experience with NIST Cybersecurity Framework 1.1 and NYDFS 500.03