Senior Cloud Engineer - Real Ownership, Budget, and Leadership Path

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are supporting our client on a search for a Cloud Engineer who will be the technical owner of their cloud platform. This is a high-trust, hands-on seat reporting to the head of infrastructure with real budget, real ownership, and a clear path into Senior Cloud Engineer, Staff, or SRE leadership roles.

You will work fully remote across US time zones. We are open to senior DevOps and SRE engineers, platform engineers ready to specialize in cloud, and infra-focused software engineers who want to go deeper on AWS.

COMPENSATION

$130,000 – $170,000 base per year, plus annual bonus and equity participation.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure on AWS (and adjacent services on GCP or Azure)

- Own infrastructure-as-code in Terraform across multiple environments

- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling

- Optimize cloud cost, performance, and reliability across services

- Run incident response and lead post-mortems with clear write-ups

- Partner with engineering on architecture, scaling, and migrations

- Harden security baselines including IAM, networking, secrets, and audit logging

- Mentor engineers on cloud, automation, and SRE best practices

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- 4 plus years of cloud engineering, DevOps, or SRE experience

- Deep hands-on AWS experience (EC2, ECS or EKS, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM)

- Strong Terraform and a scripting language (Python, Go, or Bash)

- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes in production

- Comfort owning on-call rotations and incident response

- Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent experience; AWS certifications a plus

NICE TO HAVE

- AWS Solutions Architect Professional or DevOps Engineer Professional certification

- Multi-region or multi-account AWS experience

- Familiarity with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd) or observability stacks (Datadog, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)

- Experience leading a cloud migration or major platform upgrade

BENEFITS & PERKS

- Fully remote work environment with flexible hours across US time zones

- Competitive base salary plus annual bonus

- Equity participation

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance

- 401(k) plan with employer match

- Generous paid time off, paid holidays, paid parental leave

- Annual learning and development stipend

- Conference and certification budget

- Home office setup support

WHY APPLY

Real ownership of a modern cloud platform with budget, autonomy, and a clear path to Senior, Staff, or SRE leadership.

ABOUT CAREERSCAPE

Careerscape is a staffing firm matching exceptional talent with growing companies across industries.

APPLICATION NOTICE

Apply via the external link to be considered.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT

Careerscape is an Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/Disability/Veterans.