Principal Cloud and Production Operations Engineer

qode.world

Senior Engineer responsible for architecting, optimizing hybrid, cloud-native environments for critical services. Collaborate across teams to enhance production reliability and operational engineering.

Posted 6/16/2026full-timeCalifornia • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAWSAzureChefCloudDockerGrafanaJenkinsKubernetesPrometheusPuppetPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, implement, and maintain cloud and hybrid infrastructure supporting production workloads, enterprise systems, and CI/CD pipelines
Lead the adoption of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools to enable repeatable, auditable, and secure deployments
Architect scalable and fault-tolerant solutions across OCI, AWS, Azure, and on-prem data centers, ensuring high availability and cost efficiency
Evaluate emerging cloud services and technologies for applicability to business needs and long-term scalability goals
Serve as the technical lead for production operations, ensuring uptime, performance, and reliability of customer-facing and internal systems
Develop and maintain observability frameworks leveraging metrics, logs, and traces to ensure proactive detection and rapid response
Partner with engineering teams to implement SRE-inspired practices, including service level objectives (SLOs), error budgets, and post-incident reviews
Drive root cause analysis, performance tuning, and continuous improvement of production services
Collaborate with DevOps and application engineering teams to build and optimize automated deployment pipelines supporting frequent, low-risk releases
Integrate security and compliance checks into CI/CD workflows to ensure production readiness and alignment with internal standards
Design self-healing infrastructure and automated rollback mechanisms to reduce operational risk
Ensure secure and reliable configuration management and environment orchestration using tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
Establish and enforce operational best practices for monitoring, patching, and change management across production systems
Lead production readiness reviews for new releases and large-scale changes
Collaborate with the Security and Compliance teams to ensure systems adhere to policy, hardening standards, and regulatory requirements
Participate in and occasionally lead on-call rotations for critical production systems, ensuring rapid triage and resolution
Act as a technical mentor to cloud and infrastructure engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and engineering excellence
Lead architectural reviews, design sessions, and capacity planning discussions
Serve as a trusted advisor to management on cloud modernization, resilience engineering, and cost optimization strategies

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field; Master’s preferred
10+ years of experience in cloud and infrastructure engineering, including 3+ years in a senior or principal role
Expertise with OCI (preferred), AWS and/or Azure cloud services, including networking, compute, storage, and identity management
Proven experience managing production-scale environments supporting mission-critical applications and services
Strong proficiency in:
-Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
-CI/CD and DevOps toolchains (Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD)
-Container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
-Monitoring and observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK)
-Scripting and automation (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
Solid understanding of security, compliance, and networking principles in hybrid environments
Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and incident management skills
Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from concept to execution

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Design, implement, and maintain cloud and hybrid infrastructure supporting production workloads, enterprise systems, and CI/CD pipelines
Lead the adoption of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools to enable repeatable, auditable, and secure deployments
Architect scalable and fault-tolerant solutions across OCI, AWS, Azure, and on-prem data centers, ensuring high availability and cost efficiency
Evaluate emerging cloud services and technologies for applicability to business needs and long-term scalability goals
Serve as the technical lead for production operations, ensuring uptime, performance, and reliability of customer-facing and internal systems
Develop and maintain observability frameworks leveraging metrics, logs, and traces to ensure proactive detection and rapid response
Partner with engineering teams to implement SRE-inspired practices, including service level objectives (SLOs), error budgets, and post-incident reviews
Drive root cause analysis, performance tuning, and continuous improvement of production services
Collaborate with DevOps and application engineering teams to build and optimize automated deployment pipelines supporting frequent, low-risk releases
Integrate security and compliance checks into CI/CD workflows to ensure production readiness and alignment with internal standards
Design self-healing infrastructure and automated rollback mechanisms to reduce operational risk
Ensure secure and reliable configuration management and environment orchestration using tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
Establish and enforce operational best practices for monitoring, patching, and change management across production systems
Lead production readiness reviews for new releases and large-scale changes
Collaborate with the Security and Compliance teams to ensure systems adhere to policy, hardening standards, and regulatory requirements
Participate in and occasionally lead on-call rotations for critical production systems, ensuring rapid triage and resolution
Act as a technical mentor to cloud and infrastructure engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and engineering excellence
Lead architectural reviews, design sessions, and capacity planning discussions
Serve as a trusted advisor to management on cloud modernization, resilience engineering, and cost optimization strategies 🎯 Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field; Master’s preferred
10+ years of experience in cloud and infrastructure engineering, including 3+ years in a senior or principal role
Expertise with OCI (preferred), AWS and/or Azure cloud services, including networking, compute, storage, and identity management
Proven experience managing production-scale environments supporting mission-critical applications and services
Strong proficiency in:
-Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
-CI/CD and DevOps toolchains (Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD)
-Container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
-Monitoring and observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK)
-Scripting and automation (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
Solid understanding of security, compliance, and networking principles in hybrid environments
Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and incident management skills
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Hard Skills & Tools

cloud infrastructure engineeringinfrastructure-as-codeTerraformCloudFormationCI/CDDevOpsKubernetesDockerscriptingPython

Soft Skills

analytical skillsproblem-solvingincident managementleadershipcollaborationmentoringcommunicationcross-functional initiative managementknowledge sharingcapacity planning

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Information SystemsMaster’s degree (preferred)