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Senior Cloud Platform Engineer
Job in
Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, 35275, USA
Listed on 2026-06-03
Listing for:
Waites
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-06-03
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, Cloud Computing
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Job Description:
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure primarily in AWS
- Architect and operate highly reliable APIs, web services, and data ingestion pipelines
- Lead infrastructure standardization using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and related tooling)
- Design and optimize event-driven and queue-based systems for high-volume telemetry and distributed processing workloads
- Develop scalable and secure serverless and containerized architectures where appropriate
- Establish infrastructure best practices for: reliability, observability, disaster recovery, security, cost optimization, deployment automation
- Support compliance initiatives including SOC2 and GDPR requirements
- Design and maintain secure networking architectures, IAM strategies, and secrets management practices
- Collaborate with firmware, backend, AI, and product engineering teams to support platform scalability and operational excellence
- Evaluate and recommend appropriate database technologies based on workload requirements and tradeoffs
- Improve CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows
- Participate in operational troubleshooting and incident response for production systems
- 10+ years of professional software and infrastructure engineering experience
- Deep hands-on AWS experience operating production systems at scale
- Strong experience designing and maintaining cloud-native infrastructure
- Significant experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and event-driven architectures
- Experience building and operating data ingestion pipelines using queues, streams, and serverless services
- Strong understanding of networking, security, IAM, DNS, TLS, and API architecture
- Experience supporting SOC2-compliant environments and familiarity with GDPR requirements
- Strong understanding of database technologies and architectural tradeoffs including: relational databases, time-series databases, object storage systems, caching systems
- Excellent communication and technical leadership skills
- Attractive base salary with a strong history of profit sharing
- Opportunities for professional advancement and development
Position Requirements
10+ Years
work experience
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