Cloud engineer Jobs in Irvine, CA

Cloud Compute & Infrastructure Engineer (C++) Orange County, California What "good" looks like :

• 4+ years at their current or most recent role, or a clear pattern of long stays (3-5+ years per stop).
• One short stint is explainable — two or three is a pattern, and client will pass immediately.
• Primary Skills - azure, linux, c++, python, kubernetes, ci/cd, distributed systems, networking, aws, cloud infrastructure, cloud platform, gcp Secondary Skills - google cloud, cloud migration, provisioning, scripting languages, cloud environment Work Experience (Years) - 4-20 Remote Status - No Remote Relocation Paid - No Job Description A well-capitalized, technology-driven investment firm in Southern California is looking for an engineer who can own the full platform layer between raw cloud resources and the people who need them.
• The firm is in the middle of a major infrastructure shift — moving from a fully on-premises environment to public cloud (GCP specifically) — and this hire will be central to making that transition work.
• Your day-to-day will live at the intersection of platform tooling and compute delivery.
• Some weeks you'll be designing how internal teams request, provision, and access compute resources — building the CLIs, dashboards, and APIs that make self-service possible.
• Other weeks you'll be deep in IaC pipelines, wiring up orchestration for batch workloads, or figuring out how to make a hybrid on-prem/cloud environment feel seamless to end users.
• You'll also shape the tooling around the full software development and operations lifecycle — everything from build pipelines to deployment workflows.
• This isn't a "maintain the Jenkins server" job.
• It's a build-from-scratch opportunity where you'll shape how an entire firm interacts with its compute layer during a pivotal transition.
• You'll work closely with researchers, traders, and other engineers in a flat, collaborative environment where your ideas carry real weight.
• The team is small and growing.
• The culture values kindness and intellectual curiosity as much as technical chops.
• Private offices, premium workspace, and a group of colleagues who genuinely enjoy solving hard problems together.

Qualifications What matters most:

• you've built infrastructure that other engineers actually want to use.
• You're a true generalist who can move between cloud orchestration, web interfaces, and CLI tooling without missing a beat.
• You should bring broad systems knowledge — networking, storage, compute, containers — and have real experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar).
• Strong background in C++ plus comfort in scripting languages like Python, Go, Rust, or Ruby.
• Cloud platform depth required (GCP preferred, AWS or Azure transferable).
• Experience building and supporting production-critical applications.
• Building developer-facing tools (CLIs, internal portals, APIs) is a big plus.
• CS degree or equivalent depth from hands-on experience. 5+ years building and shipping production infrastructure.
• You're the kind of engineer who sees a manual process and immediately starts thinking about how to automate it.
• You take ownership, communicate clearly, and thrive in a small, flat organization where you're trusted to figure things out independently and proactively.

IDEAL CANDIDATE PROFILE :

• True generalist with strong C++ plus scripting languages (Python, Go, Rust, Ruby).
• Cloud infrastructure experience required — GCP preferred but AWS/Azure transfers.
• Should have IaC experience and comfort building tools other developers use (CLIs, web UIs, APIs).

The example candidate profile:

• someone at a major tech company (Facebook, Amazon, Google level) with 5–10+ years shipping infrastructure, CS degree from a strong school (e.g., Waterloo, top-100 US), who wants to move into a smaller, high-impact environment. Powered by JazzHR