Senior Cloud Engineer

The Senior Cloud Engineer at KBX is a high-impact individual contributor who designs, builds, and operates a modern AWS-first cloud platform that enables application teams to deliver products securely and efficiently. This senior-level role combines hands‑on engineering with ownership across cloud infrastructure, advanced networking, Amazon EKS/Kubernetes, service mesh, automation, security, reliability, and cost optimization. Senior engineers help shape the platform strategy, establish engineering standards, lead the resolution of complex technical challenges, and influence cloud decisions for the organization.

We partner closely with Software Engineering and Dev Ops, Security, and IT leadership to create secure, scalable, and reliable platform solutions, strengthen engineering practices, and accelerate the responsible adoption of cloud and AI technologies. We value technical curiosity, critical thinking, knowledge sharing, technical leadership, and a can-do attitude.

• Design and evolve secure, scalable, highly available AWS infrastructure and multi-account platform solutions in alignment with enterprise security, compliance, reliability, and business requirements.
• Lead the technical direction and lifecycle strategy of our cloud platform including the Kubernetes-based platform (Amazon EKS) and shared services, Istio, Amazon MSK/Kafka, and Redis/Elasti Cache.
• Build and govern Infrastructure as Code and Git Ops practices using Terraform, Argo CD, Helm, and Git Hub Actions to enable consistent, automated provisioning, testing, configuration, and deployment.
• Assist in defining platform standards, reusable capabilities, and operational controls that enable application teams to adopt cloud and AI technologies securely, reliably, and at scale.
• Design and implement cloud security guardrails, including IAM, network policies, encryption, and secrets management, while proactively remediating vulnerabilities based on risk.
• Contribute to observability practices across logging, metrics, and tracing; use platform data to improve operational health.
• Lead incident response and root-cause analysis for complex cloud and platform issues, driving durable improvements that reduce recurrence.
• Partner with Software and Engineering, Dev Ops, Security, and IT leadership teams to translate requirements into platform solutions, accelerate onboarding, and remove infrastructure barriers to delivery.
• Implement Fin Ops practices for cost allocation, tagging, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting; guide teams in balancing cost, performance, reliability, risk, and business value.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership by producing high‑quality infrastructure code, conducting architecture and code reviews, and modeling engineering best practices for security, reliability, and maintainability.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, raise technical standards, and influence cloud and platform architecture decisions across teams without relying on direct authority.
• Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and strategic trade‑offs, leading the adoption of tools, frameworks, and processes that support immediate needs and long‑term platform strategy.

• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting production AWS environments that use multiple accounts, VPCs, compute, storage, IAM roles, and network services.
• Experience designing and troubleshooting AWS network connectivity and security using VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups, Private Link, VPNs,…