Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Pay Range: $100.10hr - $105.10hr Job Overview: The Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable, and reliable cloud-based solutions. This role supports business objectives by optimizing cloud infrastructure, automating deployments, and ensuring compliance with security and performance standards. Key Responsibilities: Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure: Design and deploy cloud architectures across AWS and/or Azure that meet performance, security, availability, and cost-efficiency requirements for a diverse portfolio of enterprise and research applications. Architect and implement cloud networking, compute, storage, and identity constructs with security built in from the outset, applying least-privilege principles, network segmentation, encryption, and defense-in-depth across every layer. Evaluate and recommend cloud services, architectural patterns, and infrastructure approaches, building evidence-based adoption cases that account for engineering capability, operational cost, and long-term platform sustainability. Automation & Deployment: Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) frameworks using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or equivalent, making infrastructure provisioning repeatable, auditable, and developer-friendly. Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for cloud infrastructure and application deployments, ensuring changes are tested, validated, and deployed safely with automated rollback capability. Drive…