
Staff Cloud Engineer – AWS
Analog Devices
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Jose • California • Massachusetts • United States
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Salary
💰 $131,285 - $190,108 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Design, build, and operate scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS, spanning compute, networking, storage, and managed container platforms (EKS, ECS, Fargate).
- Architect and run containerized workloads using Amazon EKS and/or Amazon ECS, including autoscaling, service discovery, and deployment strategies such as blue/green, canary, and rolling updates.
- Define and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, and/or AWS CDK to ensure consistent, repeatable provisioning across environments.
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, deployment, and release processes, enabling safe and frequent delivery.
- Automate operational workflows and system configuration to improve reliability, reduce toil, and minimize manual intervention.
- Partner closely with application development teams to containerize services and ensure seamless integration with AWS cloud services.
- Implement and operate monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana) to ensure system health, performance, and operational readiness.
- Embed security and compliance best practices into cloud infrastructure, including IAM design, secrets management, network segmentation, and adherence to enterprise security frameworks.
- Manage and govern multi-account AWS environments using AWS Organizations and Control Tower, enforcing guardrails and best practices at scale.
- Create and maintain clear, accurate documentation for cloud architectures, infrastructure, and operational processes.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship on cloud and DevOps best practices.
- Drive reliability, performance, and cost-optimization initiatives across AWS environments.
- Participate in architectural reviews and influence cloud standards and patterns.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; Master’s degree is a plus.
- 5+ years of proven experience as a Cloud or DevOps Engineer with deep, hands-on AWS expertise.
- Strong knowledge of core AWS services across compute, networking, storage, and containers, including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS/ECS, ECR, and ALB.
- Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
- Proficiency with IaC tools, with Terraform preferred; experience with CloudFormation and/or AWS CDK is a plus.
- Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines using tools such as AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
- Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language such as Python, Bash, or Go.
- Strong familiarity with Git-based version control workflows.
- Strong problem-solving abilities, clear and effective communication skills, and the ability to collaborate across teams in a fast-paced, engineering-driven environment.
- Demonstrated ability to operate independently and take ownership of cloud infrastructure in production environments.
- Experience influencing cloud and DevOps best practices across teams or projects.
- Comfort working in environments with security, compliance, and operational requirements.
Benefits
- medical, vision and dental coverage
- 401k
- paid vacation
- holidays
- sick time
- discretionary performance-based bonus
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Hard Skills & Tools
AWSTerraformCloudFormationAWS CDKCI/CD pipelinesDockerKubernetesHelmPythonBash
Soft Skills
problem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationleadershipmentorshipindependenceownershipinfluencereliabilitycost-optimization