Cloud Engineer III

Job Title:

Cloud Engineer III

We are seeking a seasoned Cloud Engineer to join our agile Cloud Management team. This role is responsible for design and implementation of a continuous delivery cloud governance and enablement framework across multiple commercial cloud service providers using modern CICD toolkit like Terraform, Ansible, Python, Go

You will be part of the Cloud & Service Management organization tasked with modernization and improvement of cloud estate management while ensuring security, repeatability, and speed of delivery

This is a hands-on role with ownership of both solution delivery and platform best practices.

• Design and maintain cloud governance and enablement services across heterogeneous cloud estate spanning Amazon, Microsoft, Google and IBM cloud service providers

• Maintain cloud estate integrations across observability and security platforms

• Translate security and governance requirements into cloud provider policy language

• Hardening and distribution of approved virtual machine images across the enterprise

• Manage ingress protection services such as WAF/DDoS

• Design and curate log aggregation/streaming to SEIM platforms

• Support new account intake workflow across cloud providers

• Participate in on-call rotation, monitoring cloud management ecosystem availability and performance

• Define and maintain environment promotion strategies for cloud provider estates

• Establish governance standards to prevent platform sprawl and security incidents

• Partner with security and technology teams on scoping and rollout of access control policies

• Design and implement agentic workflows that assist with cloud governance tasks

• Provide guidance and enablement to analysts and platform developers

• Display deep technical knowledge across multiple competence domains including cloud computing, networking, security, and automation

• Demonstrate ability to design durable patterns for cloud estate management

• Build and maintain cloud management continuous delivery workflows

• Develop tools and applications in support of business requirements

• Continually propose and implement automation solutions that elevate operational efficiency

• Implement error handling, logging, and operational support patterns

• Modernize cloud operations using agentic automation and AI/ML-driven insights

• Remain updated on industry trends and emerging technologies

• Showcase the ability to adapt and learn quickly

• Translate new business requirements into scalable technical solutions

• Act as a subject matter expert for Google and IBM commercial cloud service providers

• Mentor junior team members and promote best practices

• Contribute to platform roadmap and continuous improvement efforts

• Undergraduate degree in Software Engineering or equivalent

• 5+ years of experience in software/infrastructure as code development

• 3+ years of hands-on cloud engineering and development

• Working knowledge of Google and IBM cloud service providers

• Experience managing heterogeneous cloud estate environments with focus on security and scalability

• Strong understanding of data security and governance patterns for cloud estate management

• High-level of cross-collaboration with internal customers/partners

• Ability to work across many levels of engineers and management

• Experience building and operating automation patterns that rely on AI/ML or agentic workflows

• Hands-on experience with:

  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Python
  • Go
  • Bash

• Cloud Shell/Provider APIs

• Strong familiarity with Amazon and Microsoft cloud service providers

• Experience designing enterprise-scale solutions

• Experience working in a Center of Excellence (CoE) model

• Working knowledge of governance and guardrail patterns for agentic workflows

• Familiarity with:

  • Power Shell
  • Terragrunt
  • Java script/Node

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