Sr. Cloud Engineer - Cloud Engineering & Operations

Sr. Cloud Engineer - Cloud Engineering & Operations

Location - Chicago, IL or remote

About the Role : We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Sr. cloud Engineer and operations specialists. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical expertise in cloud infrastructure and operations, and a passion for building resilient, scalable, and efficient cloud environments. Key Responsibilities : Senior cloud engineer providing technical direction, mentorship, and support for junior engineers Collaborate with product managers, security teams, and other stakeholders to define infrastructure and platform requirements and delivery timelines Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions Develops and review infrastructure code, enforce best practices, and ensures compliance with security standards Support sprint planning, task allocation, and operational performance tracking Identify and address technical challenges, including system reliability and performance issues Foster a culture of automation, observability, and continuous improvement Stay up to date with industry trends, cloud technologies, and DevOps practices Creates and updates Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI / CD pipelines, Ansible, Packer, Python, and cloud-native automations. Manages Web Application Firewall (WAF) configurations, certificates, and automations for web applications Leads disaster recovery designs and automations for cloud deployed components. Leads the ITIL processes - incident, request, change management and may coordinate with other teams as necessary. Requirements : Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering or operations, with at least 2 years in a senior role 5+ years with cloud PaaS services - Relational databases, APIGateways, storage, Firewalls, Caching, Lambda, AKS, EKS, etc. Minimum 5 years of experience in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud 5+ years with Infrastructure as Code using following technologies - Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Packer 5 years Python, Golang, or other automation programming languages 7+ years Experience with Agile and DevOps methodologies 3 years of experience with Jenkins, GitLab. 1-3 years in cloud design patterns, Containers / Kubernetes, and designing cloud solutions 3+ year with cloud networking, load balancers, Akamai WAF, and monitoring tools. 3+ yrs Wiz and GuardDuty, and App security tools - WhiteSource or Checkmarx