Senior Cloud Engineer

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a W2 basis. For our W2 consultants, we offer a comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
.

Requirements Recap:

• 💼
  
  Employment Type:
  
  W2 only (consultants must be willing to work under our W2)
• 🌐 Visa: Open to all work authorizations
• 🏢
  
  Location:
  
  Must be local To Merrimack, NH/ Smithfield, Rhode Island /Westlake, TX

We are hiring a Senior Cloud Engineer to join an Observability Platform team focused on building and enhancing a modern, cloud-native observability solution for metrics and traces using Open Telemetry (OTel).

This is a long-term contract opportunity (6-month increments with continuous extensions based on performance) on a highly collaborative team known for strong leadership, quick feedback, and a positive engineering culture.

🚫
This is NOT a Dev Ops role.

Candidates whose primary background is Dev Ops/SRE will not be considered.

We are looking for a strong software engineer first
, with excellent programming skills and practical cloud exposure
.

• Python OR
• Golang
• Either is fine — Java-only profiles will not be considered
• Hands-on experience with containerization
  :
• Kubernetes and/or Docker
• Cloud experience with:
• AWS (EC2, EKS preferred)
• Experience building, deploying, or supporting distributed systems at scale

• Design, build, and enhance cloud-native services supporting an observability platform
• Contribute to platform resiliency, security, and scalability improvements
• Work on metrics and tracing pipelines using Open Telemetry
• Collaborate within a small, empowered engineering squad
• Apply engineering best practices across CI/CD, testing, and automation

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with scalable, distributed systems
• Proficiency in Python or Golang
• Experience with Linux-based systems
• Solid understanding of networking concepts (DNS, load balancers, routing)
• Experience deploying applications in cloud environments
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK, Cloud Formation, etc.)
• CI/CD experience using tools like Jenkins or equivalent

• Experience with observability tools such as:
• Prior experience working on logging, metrics, or tracing platforms
• AWS Cloud certifications
• Frontend exposure with React or Node.js

• Round 1: Live coding exercise
• AI-assisted IDE features must be disabled