Cloud Engineer - $81. .94 per hour
About the Role
This opportunity is for a highly experienced cloud infrastructure leader responsible for driving the reliability, scalability, security, and long-term evolution of enterprise cloud platform systems. This role operates with a high level of autonomy and provides technical leadership across architecture, platform engineering, security, and cloud operations. The position plays a critical role in shaping cloud strategy, supporting enterprise-scale infrastructure, guiding engineering best practices, and influencing major architectural decisions across the organization. What You’ll Do Strategic Architecture & Technical Leadership
- Develop and execute long-term cloud architecture strategies aligned with platform scalability and business growth objectives
- Lead enterprise-wide cloud architecture reviews and establish governance standards, operational guardrails, and engineering best practices
- Evaluate emerging technologies including AI/ML infrastructure, platform engineering tools, and FinOps solutions
- Provide architectural recommendations and technical direction to senior engineering and executive leadership
- Serve as a senior escalation point for complex cloud infrastructure and architecture challenges
- Drive the transition from reactive infrastructure management toward proactive, resilience-focused platform engineering
Platform Engineering & Infrastructure
- Design, build, maintain, and monitor enterprise-scale cloud-based PaaS systems
- Architect highly available, fault-tolerant, geographically redundant, and multi-region infrastructure environments
- Lead the lifecycle management of cloud deployment systems and CI/CD tooling
- Continuously improve deployment speed, platform reliability, developer experience, and operational safety
- Design reusable infrastructure components and utility libraries used across engineering teams
- Build and oversee enterprise observability, metrics, monitoring, and alerting systems
- Support proactive incident response processes and SLA enforcement strategies
Security, Compliance & Risk Management
- Ensure cloud environments comply with security standards, SOC 2 requirements, FERPA regulations, and applicable privacy standards
- Architect zero-trust networking environments and identity and access management frameworks
- Design and maintain encryption and cloud security controls across infrastructure systems
- Partner with Security and Legal teams to perform cloud risk assessments and remediation planning
- Address platform-level architectural vulnerabilities and strengthen overall infrastructure security posture
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Act as a senior technical advisor to Engineering, Product, and Executive leadership teams
- Translate complex technical tradeoffs into clear business impact and operational guidance
- Promote engineering best practices focused on scalability, reliability, operational excellence, and performance optimization
- Create training resources, operational playbooks, and cloud knowledge documentation
- Support organizational planning, infrastructure capacity modeling, and workforce strategy discussions
- Represent cloud architecture initiatives across cross-functional teams and strategic planning efforts
Mentorship & Team Development
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance to Principal, Staff, and Senior Engineers
- Support engineering career development and technical growth initiatives
- Participate in hiring processes, technical interviews, and engineering calibration discussions
- Participate in on-call rotations and provide emergency production incident support when needed
- Model high operational standards and engineering excellence across infrastructure teams
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Master’s degree preferred
- 10+ years of progressive experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or systems architecture
- 3–5+ years of experience operating at the Principal Engineer or Staff Engineer level
- Demonstrated ownership of enterprise-wide cloud architecture decisions
- Strong experience leading large-scale cloud migrations, modernization initiatives, or cloud transformation programs
- Experience working within high-growth SaaS environments preferred
- Experience in compliance-focused industries such as education technology or financial technology prefe