Lirio

Senior Cloud Engineer – Contract-to-Hire

Lirio

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: TennesseeUnited States

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Salary

💰 $140,000 - $165,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Support the design and planning of cloud-agnostic solutions capable of being deployed to multiple cloud providers and customer public cloud and private data centers
  • Design, implement, test, deploy, maintain, and support cloud-native and cloud-agnostic self-healing infrastructure across environments, multiple cloud providers, and customer data centers as a top-level contributor
  • Align cloud infrastructure with HITRUST & SOC2 compliance and support audits
  • Plan, implement, and support a developer platform to improve self-service
  • Collaborate with development teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud services and infrastructure solutions and address issues as they arise
  • Review existing systems and offer recommendations for improvement
  • Identify, analyze, mitigate and resolve infrastructure issues, vulnerabilities, and application deployment issues through monitoring, scanning, observability, and processes
  • Support and improve Lirio’s engineering practices including an emphasis on quality and security
  • Document decisions, work product, and cloud practices
  • Review code, designs, and contributions from others, promoting stability, security, compliance, scalability, readability, and maintainability
  • Write clean and maintainable code/infrastructure-as-code (IaC)
  • Assist in project planning, estimation, and resource allocation
  • Help manage infrastructure spend efficiency
  • Implement and support build & CI/CD pipeline engineering efforts as needed
  • Pursue continuous learning through individual study, online courses, product documentation, and community resources to bring innovation to the technical organization
  • Design, implement, and support stateful database infrastructure including managed cloud databases and Kubernetes-native database operators.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in software product development, cloud engineering, and operations across public or private clouds (AWS & Azure; OCI a plus) including hands-on work with secure, scalable enterprise systems (Java or Python)
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field required
  • Master's Degree in Business Analytics, Business Administration, or similar preferred
  • Articulated ability to help others, collaborate cross-functionally, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and stay current on emerging cloud technologies and industry trends
  • Experience supporting infrastructure for a health tech or healthcare related company with a software product
  • Strong proficiency with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), the Linux operating system, cluster management/administration, and deployment tooling (Helm, ArgoCD) for distributed, event-driven architectures including stateful workloads and database operators
  • Strong proficiency in DevSecOps principles and automation frameworks (Terraform, Ansible, Azure Key Vault), scripting (Python, Bash), and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps – Gradle, Poetry, JFrog)
  • Experience designing and securing network infrastructure end-to-end (in-transit and at-rest) and meeting compliance frameworks (HITRUST, PCI) with SOC2 attestation
  • Skilled at using observability platforms (Datadog or similar) to review operational metrics and drive improvements
  • Demonstratable command of a programming language where Java, Python, and Go are preferred though demonstrable, articulable skills with TypeScript, C#, or other languages will be considered
  • Software engineering background or previously held a software engineering role which may include platform engineering or reliability engineering
  • Proficient with Microsoft Entra ID/AD
  • Ability to quickly learn company terminology and processes
  • Self-starter with strong time management and work planning skills
  • Experience deploying and supporting the same software on multiple clouds at the same time.
  • Experience with microservices and eventually consistent architectures
  • Experience with event-driven architectures, asynchronous messaging, and Apache Kafka
  • Experience running highly available, cloud-agnostic, production data and event infrastructures in Kubernetes
  • SRE experience with large scale cloud-based systems
  • Experience building infrastructure for Data and Machine Learning teams
  • Experience deploying, operating, and migrating relational database infrastructure including Amazon RDS and CloudNativePG (CNPG) on Kubernetes, including high availability configuration, backup/restore, and monitoring for stateful workloads.
Benefits
  • Medical (HSA available)
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Short-term & long-term disability (company-paid)
  • Life & AD&D (company-paid)
  • 401K with company match
  • 10 paid holidays, quarterly company closure dates, + holiday week company closure
  • Flexible time off policy
  • Work from home
  • 6 weeks paid parental leave
  • Salary range: $140k- $165k upon conversion
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud engineeringinfrastructure-as-codecontainerizationDevSecOpsscriptingCI/CD pipelinesnetwork infrastructure designobservabilitydatabase infrastructuremicroservices
Soft Skills
collaborationtime managementself-starterproblem-solvingcommunicationadaptabilitycross-functional teamworkcontinuous learninginnovationleadership
Certifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer ScienceMaster's Degree in Business AnalyticsHITRUST complianceSOC2 attestation