BLACKCLOAK

Senior Cloud Engineer

BLACKCLOAK

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $145,000 - $160,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Architect and Manage Cloud Infrastructure: Design, deploy, and maintain highly available and scalable environments within GCP.
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Drive the adoption of Terraform to manage all infrastructure through code, ensuring environment consistency and version control.
  • Cloud Operations & Monitoring: Expand the observability capabilities of the platform and own the day-to-day health of production environments.
  • Collaborative DevOps: Partner closely with engineers to improve the developer experience, assisting with containerization (Docker/K8s) and deployment strategies.
  • CI/CD Automation: Build and optimize robust CI/CD pipelines to streamline application delivery, integrating automated testing and deployment gates.
  • Secure Infrastructure Design: Partner with security engineering to implement cloud hardening standards, IAM architecture and policies, secrets management, and overall Cloud infrastructure and security best practices.
  • Performance Optimization: Analyze cloud spend and resource utilization to optimize for cost and performance across all environments.
  • Automated Remediation: Develop scripts and playbooks to automate routine operational tasks and self-healing infrastructure.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in a Cloud Engineering, SRE, or DevOps role, preferably within a cloud-native SaaS, startup environment.
  • Public Cloud Expertise: Strong proficiency in managing public cloud environments, with a primary focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
  • Automation Mindset: Proven experience with Terraform, Ansible, or Pulumi for infrastructure automation.
  • Cloud Operations Expertise: Demonstrated experience managing production workloads at scale, including log aggregation, proactive alerting, and incident response.
  • Operational Mindset: A safety-first approach to changes, with experience in canary deployments, blue-green releases, and automated rollbacks.
  • Containerization: Solid understanding of Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes (GKE).
  • Pipeline Experience: Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins).
  • Scripting: Proficiency in at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, Bash) to automate manual processes.
  • Collaborative Problem-Solver: Ability to work across Engineering, Security, and Product teams to translate business requirements into technical architecture.
Benefits
  • 100% Remote Company, within the USA
  • Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans with a 100% employer-paid monthly premium option for employees & 50% employer-paid monthly premiums for dependents.
  • Health Savings Account with company contribution for eligible medical plans.
  • Flexible Vacation Plan
  • 10 Paid Company Holidays
  • 100% employer-paid Life, AD&D and Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance
  • 401k with Traditional and Roth options, including employer match.
  • Company Equity
  • Paid Parental and Pregnancy Recovery Leave
  • Company and team off-sites and virtual events throughout the year
  • Home office stipend
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Hard Skills & Tools
Cloud InfrastructureTerraformGCPCI/CDDockerKubernetesScriptingAnsiblePulumiPerformance Optimization
Soft Skills
Collaborative Problem-SolverOperational MindsetAutomation Mindset