Cloud Engineer

Staff Cloud Engineer

Do you love building and pioneering in the technology space? Do you enjoy solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, inclusive , and iterative delivery environment? At Capital One, you'll be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors, who love to solve real problems and meet real customer needs. We are seeking Cloud Engineers who are passionate about marrying data with emerging technologies to join our team.

As a Cloud Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of driving a major cloud infrastructure transformation within Capital One. Help us define and build the future of infrastructure at enterprise scale!

• Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for your domain

• Decompose complex problems into practical and operational solutions

• Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation

• Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, such as performance, scalability and operability

• Continue learning and injecting advanced technical knowledge into our community

• Handle several projects simultaneously, balancing your time to maximize impact

• Act as a role model and mentor within the tech community, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community

• Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms

• Collaborate with senior engineering and architecture leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards

• Serve as a force-multiplier for the team, balancing deep, hands-on technical contribution and innovation with mentoring and elevating the skills of peers and junior engineers

• Lead cross-divisional projects and impacts that promote technological best practices and enhancements

• Lead the adoption and responsible use of emerging AI and automation capabilities to improve the scalability, reliability, and efficiency of cloud platforms and engineering workflows

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Engineering)

• At least 8 years of experience in software engineering

• At least 4 years of experience in cloud engineering

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering

• 10+ years of experience in coding with at least one of the following:
  Java, Scala, Python, Go, or Node.js

• 6+ years of experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI)

• 6+ years of experience in CI/CD orchestration, Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks (e.g., Terraform, Cloud Formation, Pulumi, Crossplane), and Automated Governance using Policy-as-Code DSLs (e.g. OPA)

• One or more active certifications related to cloud infrastructure management or security

• Experience in optimizing complex, high-scale distributed systems and cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, Serverless)

• Experience designing and supporting cloud networking, security and identity integrations

• Experience troubleshooting and supporting production cloud environments

• Experience leading cross-functional engineering efforts or large-scale technical initiatives

• Experience influencing technology strategy at the portfolio or business unit level

• Experience managing multi-team engineering organizations or leading strategic technical programs spanning multiple domains

• Experience defining and tracking engineering OKRs that align to business outcomes

• Experience shaping organization design and talent strategy for scaling engineering capabilities

• Experience with strategic and executive-level communication to influence technology decisions within the organization

• Experien…