Cloud Engineer II

Role Summary

Cloud Engineer II is a technical contributor who can consistently take a business or technical problem, work it to a well-defined specifications, and execute on it at a high level. They have a strong focus on metrics, both for the impact of their work and for its inner workings/operations. They are a model for the team on best practices for software development in general (and their specialization in particular), including code quality, documentation, DevOps, and testing. They ensure robustness of our services and serve as an escalation point in the operation of existing services, pipelines, and modules. A Cloud Engineer II should be familiar with the tools of their specialization and their customers and engaged with the open-source community surrounding them – potentially, even to the level of contributing pull requests

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage infrastructure solutions based on best practices, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deploy and operate applications and platforms in a cloud native environment.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated infrastructure deployments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployment processes using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
• Contribute to the creation and maintenance of documentation related to cloud architectures, configurations, and processes.
• Stay aligned with industry best practice in cloud infrastructure, continuously improving our architecture and security posture.
• Actively seek feedback, learn from experiences, and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within the team

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline with 4+ years of relevant experience — or a Master’s degree with 2+ years of relevant experience
• Required: Experience with Cloud Platforms (e.g., Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, AWS), including infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Required: Experience with CI/CD implementation (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or Cloud Build)
• Required: Experience of agile software development environments
• Required: Knowledge and use of at least one common programming language (e.g., Python, Rust, C++, Scala, Go, Java), including toolchains that support their eco-systems and operations such as documentation, testing, and operations/observability
• Required: Experience with declarative programming (e.g- Terraform, Ansible, Chef)

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline with 4+ years of relevant experience — or a Master’s degree with 2+ years of relevant experience