Job Title: Cloud Engineer
Location: Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States
Type: Full Time
Our client is looking for a Cloud Engineer III – Cloud Foundations
Join a team focused on building and operating secure, scalable, and reliable cloud platform capabilities that support enterprise technology. This role emphasizes a services-driven and automation-first approach, enabling standardized solutions through APIs, pipelines, and self-service tooling rather than manual provisioning. You will play a key role in enhancing consistency across AWS and Azure environments, strengthening governance and observability, and simplifying cloud adoption for application teams.
This opportunity is ideal for someone who enjoys solving platform-level challenges, improving operational efficiency at scale, and collaborating with engineering, security, and networking teams to translate architecture into practical, maintainable solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and contribute to team direction
- Apply DevOps and Agile practices to design and deliver solutions
- Develop and implement automated systems using coding standards and best practices
- Identify and resolve technical challenges through automation and engineering solutions
- Review code to ensure quality, scalability, and maintainability
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives, including CI/CD pipeline enhancements
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years of professional IT experience
- Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services (certification preferred)
- Strong exposure to container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with monitoring, performance tuning, and system optimization
- Solid understanding of networking concepts and Linux-based platforms
- Proficiency in scripting or programming languages such as Python or JavaScript
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools (GitLab CI, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, CircleCI, etc.)
- Knowledge of security fundamentals including certificates, firewalls, authentication, and vulnerability management
- Comfortable working with both Linux and Windows environments
Preferred Skills
- Certifications in AWS, Docker, or Kubernetes
- Experience with CI/CD automation, GitOps practices, and version control systems
- Knowledge of site reliability engineering and infrastructure automation
- Strong understanding of cloud architecture and enterprise IT ecosystems
- Exposure to unit testing and software development best practices
