Cloud Engineer

Title : Cloud Engineer

Duration : 12 months

Location : 260 Aldrich Hall, Irvine, CA 92697 (Hybrid)

Key Responsibilities :

Leads the engineering and deployment of a secure, compliant AWS environment for campus research use, including automated landing zone setup, account structure, networking, IAM, monitoring, and logging aligned to NIST 800-171 standards. Collaborates with AWS ProServe / SAS and internal teams to analyze requirements, map controls to AWS services, and guide implementation of detective and preventative guardrails across AWS accounts. Designs, writes, and maintains infrastructure-as-code using tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation, integrates with configuration and deployment pipelines, and develops scripts for security automation and compliance validation. Troubleshoots and resolves the most complex issues. Designs and coordinates work flow of support requests, setting priorities and tracking resolution. Ensures compliance with and provides input to service level agreements. Conducts detailed troubleshooting, testing, and incident response planning for cloud systems; resolves issues in development and non-production environments to ensure operational continuity and secure configuration. Develops and maintains documentation including implementation guides, operational runbooks, decision logs, and evidence catalogs to support audit preparation and internal knowledge transfer. Participates in project planning, stakeholder meetings, and compliance readiness assessments to support governance, reporting, and continuous improvement of UCI's cloud posture.

Experience Skillset Required :

Cloud engineering skills Preferred experience : 5+ years

Selection Process (interviewers and # of interviews) :

3 interviewers, 2 interviews