SR. CLOUD ENGINEER

Largeton Group • Full-time • Plano, TX, US • 2d ago

Job Summary (SR. CLOUD ENGINEER)

Design, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS.
Architect and manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS), including upgrades, networking, autoscaling, and workload management.
Develop and maintain reusable infrastructure using Terraform (IaC) for dev, staging, and production environments.
Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, or similar) for automated build, test, and deployment workflows.
Enforce cloud security best practices, including IAM policies, KMS key management, encryption, secrets management, and audit logging.
Monitor cloud systems for health, performance, and cost using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and alerting tools; manage incident response and root cause analysis.
Automate operational tasks and infrastructure configuration using Python, Groovy, and Shell scripting.
Collaborate with application, security, and DevOps teams to define architecture patterns, review infrastructure pull requests, and drive engineering standards.
Lead cloud cost optimization efforts (right-sizing, reserved capacity, resource lifecycle management).
Mentor junior engineers, lead architecture reviews, and contribute to cloud best practices across the organization.
Work onsite in Plano, TX, 3 days per week as part of a 6-month contract.

Key Skills & Experience Required

Strong expertise with AWS core services (EKS, KMS, S3, EC2, IAM, VPC, RDS, CloudWatch)
Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production (including Helm, networking, autoscaling, and multi-tenant management)
Proven track record designing and managing secure, production-grade cloud architectures
Strong understanding of cloud security, identity management, network segmentation, and compliance
Experience with Terraform, CI/CD tooling, Python, and Groovy/Shell scripting is preferred
6+ years in cloud infrastructure/DevOps/platform engineering roles, with 3+ years on AWS and 3+ years with Kubernetes
Strong communication skills, collaborative and ownership-driven mindset, bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Preferred Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect (Associate/Professional)
AWS DevOps Engineer (Professional)
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Application Developer (CKAD)
HashiCorp Terraform Associate

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