
Senior Cloud Engineer – Contract-to-Hire
Lirio
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Tennessee • United States
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Salary
💰 $140,000 - $165,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
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