Cloud Engineer (Developer Experience)

Contract to Hire - Hourly W2 - $95-100/hr

W2 ONLY

NO C2C

🚨 Eligibility Requirement: Must be a U.S. Citizen or Green Card holder (no exceptions)

We’re hiring a Cloud Engineer (Developer Experience) to help scale modern cloud infrastructure and improve developer workflows across Infrastructure-as-Code, Kubernetes, and CI/CD platforms. This role is hands-on and focused on building reliable, reusable, and secure systems across multi-cloud environments.

Must-Haves

Strong experience with Terragrunt + Terraform (structuring, refactoring, state management)
Proven experience with Ansible at scale for automation and configuration management
Hands-on experience running Kubernetes workloads (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

What You’ll Do

Build and maintain standardized Terragrunt structures across accounts, regions, and environments
Refactor and migrate Terraform stacks and state with minimal downtime and drift
Develop and scale Ansible automation for system provisioning and application deployment
Design secure, multi-cloud architectures using RBAC and least-privilege access
Manage Kubernetes deployments using Helm, Kustomize, Tanka, or Jsonnet
Enhance CI/CD and GitOps workflows (GitHub Actions, self-hosted runners, Jenkins)
Integrate cloud platforms with tools like Slack, Jira, and internal automation systems

Nice to Have

Experience with HashiCorp Vault or similar secrets management tools
Programming experience (Go, Python)
Strong Linux background (RHEL/CentOS/Rocky, Ubuntu)
Experience with cloud-init and image automation

What We Value

Ownership, strong problem-solving, attention to scalability, and a passion for improving developer experience. Ability to collaborate across distributed teams is key.

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