Senior Cloud Engineer - NCF

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Cloud Engineer to serve as the first dedicated cloud engineering hire on our team. This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives in high-ownership environments, can identify opportunities without being asked, and is capable of designing and delivering a scalable cloud foundation that elevates engineering productivity and operational excellence across the organization.

As a senior-level individual contributor, you will partner directly with engineering leadership to define our cloud strategy, introduce best-in-class infrastructure practices, and create reusable patterns and catalogs that standardize how teams build, deploy, and operate software. You will also help shape long-term architectural decisions and mentor engineers across teams on cloud, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment best practices.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Cloud Engineer to serve as the first dedicated cloud engineering hire on our team. This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives in high-ownership environments, can identify opportunities without being asked, and is capable of designing and delivering a scalable cloud foundation that elevates engineering productivity and operational excellence across the organization.

As a senior-level individual contributor, you will partner directly with engineering leadership to define our cloud strategy, introduce best-in-class infrastructure practices, and create reusable patterns and catalogs that standardize how teams build, deploy, and operate software. You will also help shape long-term architectural decisions and mentor engineers across teams on cloud, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment best practices.

• Act as the primary owner of our cloud engineering function, driving standards, tooling, and best practices across the engineering organization.
• Design and implement scalable, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure using AWS services and industry best practices.
• Build, evolve, and maintain our infrastructure-as-code foundation using Terraform
  , with an emphasis on reusable modules and service templates.
• Develop and maintain standardized service catalogs and infrastructure patterns to accelerate developer onboarding and reduce duplication.
• Develop patterns, improve, and support CI/CD pipelines to ensure fast, reliable, and compliant software delivery.
• Collaborate closely with application teams to design cloud-native architectures and guide them through implementation.
• Drive cross-team initiatives that improve reliability, security, observability, and automation across the platform.
• Lead technical planning, estimation, architectural reviews, and documentation for cloud initiatives.
• Identify cloud optimization opportunities (performance, scalability, cost) and implement strategies to address them.
• Conduct infrastructure reviews and provide mentorship to engineers to promote cloud fluency across the organization.

• 7+ years of hands-on experience building and supporting production cloud infrastructure.
• Strong self-starter with a track record of independently identifying problems and delivering impactful solutions.
• Demonstrated technical leadership experience
  , including guiding architectural decisions, reviewing designs, and influencing engineering best practices.
• Deep proficiency with AWS (networking, IAM, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, VPC design, ALBs/NLBs, S3, etc.).
• Strong expertise with Terraform
  , including module design, workspace strategies, and enterprise-scale patterns.
• Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines
  , ideally with Git Hub Actions.
• Experience standardizing infrastructure and building service / module catalogs or internal frameworks to drive reuse.
• Solid understanding of cloud security principles, observability ecosystems, and modern Dev Ops practices.
• Effective communicator able to collaborate across engineering, product, and leadership teams.
• Experience with Kubernetes (EKS preferably), container orchestration, or service mesh technologies.

• Prior experience as the first or early infrastructure/cloud hire in a growing engineering org.
• AWS certifications (Solutions…