Cloud Engineer

ASCENDING Inc.

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Posted on: 10/3/2025

Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • California • 🇺🇸 United States

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Mid-LevelSenior

AWSCloudKubernetesMicroservicesTerraform

About the role

Architect, deploy, and manage EKS clusters on AWS, ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency
Design and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform to manage cloud resources across multiple environments
Collaborate with application and platform engineering teams to modernize workloads and migrate monolithic applications into cloud-native, containerized microservices
Implement and refine observability solutions (monitoring, logging, alerting) to ensure high availability and performance of cloud infrastructure
Develop and enforce cloud security best practices, including IAM, networking, secrets management, and container security
Drive automation initiatives to improve CI/CD pipelines and reduce operational overhead
Evaluate and recommend new AWS services, containerization strategies, and IaC patterns to improve cloud efficiency and developer productivity
Mentor junior engineers and foster a culture of automation, DevOps, and continuous learning.

5+ years of hands-on Kubernetes/EKS experience (deploying, scaling, and securing clusters in AWS)
Expertise in Terraform for IaC; experience creating reusable modules and managing state in enterprise environments
Strong background in AWS cloud services (VPC, IAM, ECR, ALB/NLB, Route53, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, etc.)
Proven experience modernizing applications from monoliths to microservices/cloud-native architectures
Familiarity with load balancing, networking, and container orchestration best practices
Strong knowledge of security controls for AWS and Kubernetes (RBAC, network policies, secrets management, etc.)
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
Bonus: experience with healthcare, highly regulated industries, or payment systems.

Benefits

MENTORSHIP Develop and leverage essential domain knowledge, plus your passion with ASCENDING.
BUILD VERSATILE SKILLS Confront different challenges and build your versatile skills crossing from software engineering, big data, DevOps, front-end, full-stack, testing, automation and more
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION ASCENDING values diversity and has an open mind for talented and professionals.

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KubernetesEKSTerraformInfrastructure as CodeAWSCI/CDcloud securitymonitoringloggingcontainerization

collaborationmentoringautomationcontinuous learning

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