Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Paramount

Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Paramount Streaming architecting and optimizing multi-cloud infrastructure for real-time data streaming and AI-driven analytics. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure scalable and secure operations.

Posted 6/2/2026full-timeRemote • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $157,000 - $190,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Architect, implement, and optimize multi-cloud infrastructure across GCP and OCI to support large-scale data and streaming workloads.
Lead infrastructure initiatives focused on scalability, reliability, automation, and observability across cloud environments.
Develop and maintain Terraform-based infrastructure-as-code frameworks to standardize deployments and improve developer self-service capabilities.
Collaborate with platform, data, and software engineering teams to align infrastructure design with system performance and security requirements.
Design and implement advanced networking architectures, including VPC peering, VPNs, load balancers, and cross-region failover strategies.
Drive incident response, reliability reviews, and postmortems to improve uptime and reduce operational risk.
Lead cloud cost governance, monitoring usage patterns, and optimizing resource allocations to balance performance and spend efficiency.
Mentor and guide infrastructure engineers in best practices for automation, observability, and scalable systems design.
Partner with security and compliance teams to enforce strong cloud security standards, including IAM policies, encryption, and key management.
Develop infrastructure blueprints and documentation to promote consistency, operational excellence, and knowledge sharing across teams.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of experience in infrastructure or cloud engineering
2+ years in a lead or technical leadership capacity.
Proven experience managing and scaling distributed systems in production cloud environments.
Strong programming or scripting experience with Java, Python, or similar languages for automation and infrastructure tooling.
Exceptional communication and collaboration skills with the ability to influence both technical and business stakeholders.
Commitment to operational excellence, continuous improvement, and cloud-native innovation.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical
dental
vision
401(k) plan
life insurance coverage
disability benefits
tuition assistance program
PTO

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Hard Skills & Tools

multi-cloud infrastructureGCPOCITerraforminfrastructure-as-codenetworking architecturesVPC peeringVPNsload balancerscloud cost governance

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationcollaborationmentoringinfluencing stakeholdersoperational excellencecontinuous improvementautomation best practicesobservabilityscalable systems design