Senior Cloud Engineer

C.H Robinson is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer who combines strong software development capability with a deep foundation in cloud infrastructure and operations. In this role, you will design and build platform services, APIs, automation, and self-service experiences that help engineering teams provision, deploy, observe, secure, and operate cloud workloads more effectively.

You will work closely with application development, data science, security, and infrastructure teams to turn common cloud capabilities into reliable, reusable platform products. This is a hands-on engineering role with a strong development focus. You will write production-quality code, establish engineering patterns, integrate AI-assisted capabilities where they provide practical value, and improve the developer experience through well-designed abstractions and automation. Infrastructure expertise remains critical.

You will participate in a support and on-call rotation and must be able to troubleshoot across the cloud platform, including applications, Kubernetes, networking, identity, data services, observability, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code. Major areas of focus include reliability, security, performance, resiliency, continuity, compliance, and cost effectiveness. Familiarity with Cloud Fin Ops principles is also important, along with a passion for eliminating waste, improving resource efficiency, and continuously optimizing cloud spend without compromising reliability, security, or performance.

The ideal candidate is a pragmatic builder and self-starter who collaborates well, challenges the status quo constructively, and balances speed with operational excellence. You should be comfortable moving between application code, infrastructure, architecture, and production troubleshooting.

This role can be based only in Minnesota, Chicago or Kansas City

• Design, develop, test, and maintain cloud platform services, APIs, command-line tools, automation, and reusable software components.
• Build self-service capabilities that enable product teams to provision and manage infrastructure and platform services safely and consistently.
• Develop production-quality software using Go, Rust, Python, .NET, or similar languages, and quickly learn additional languages and frameworks as needed.
• Create and integrate AI-enabled platform capabilities, including agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and clients, retrieval and tool integrations, and APIs that interact with large language models.
• Apply sound software engineering practices, including modular design, code review, automated testing, versioning, documentation, secure coding, and maintainable release processes.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines for application code, platform services, containers, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Develop reusable Infrastructure as Code modules and policy-driven automation for cloud provisioning, configuration, and governance.
• Partner with internal engineering teams to identify friction, translate requirements into platform capabilities, and drive adoption through clear documentation and intuitive developer experiences.
• Own services through their full lifecycle, including design, deployment, production readiness, monitoring, incident response, maintenance, and continuous improvement.
• Participate in the cloud team support and on-call rotation; diagnose and resolve issues across compute, containers, networking, DNS, identity, storage, data services, security controls, and deployment tooling.
• Design observability into platform services using logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, and service-level indicators.
• Improve platform reliability by reducing operational toil, eliminating recurring failure modes, and implementing…