Staff Cloud Engineer

2 hours ago

Salt Lake City, UT, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$161k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise-scale AWS cloud platforms.
Define cloud infrastructure roadmaps focused on scalability, reliability, security, operational excellence, and cost optimization.
Architect Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform and modern cloud automation practices.
Design highly available, fault-tolerant, multi-account AWS environments using AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.
Build and maintain enterprise CI/CD platforms for secure, repeatable, automated software delivery.
Develop automation, observability strategies, and cloud-native architectures that improve platform reliability and DevOps adoption.
Architect container and serverless platforms using Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, and AWS serverless technologies.
Partner with cybersecurity teams on secure-by-design architectures, identity management, governance, and compliance controls.
Lead performance optimization, capacity planning, disaster recovery, resiliency, and complex production issue resolution.
Establish cloud engineering standards and architectural patterns, mentor engineers, advise modernization initiatives, and evaluate emerging cloud technologies.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
10+ years of progressive experience designing, building, and supporting enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering environments.
5+ years of hands-on AWS engineering experience in large-scale production environments.
Deep experience designing and operating highly available cloud infrastructure and building Infrastructure as Code with Terraform.
Strong Linux systems administration experience and experience building and operating enterprise CI/CD platforms.
Strong programming or scripting experience with Python, Go, Bash, or similar automation languages.
Experience supporting mission-critical production systems with high-availability requirements.
Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership across multiple teams.
Excellent communication, documentation, and architectural decision-making skills.

Full-time, regular in-office position in Salt Lake City, Utah, with 40 standard weekly hours.
Eligible for bonuses, medical, dental, vision, telehealth, mental healthcare, health savings account, and flexible spending account.
Includes life insurance, disability coverage, accident and supplemental illness and hospital coverage, legal and identity theft coverage, and a retirement savings plan.
Includes a wellbeing program, discounted WGU tuition, flexible paid time off, flexible paid sick time, 11 paid holidays, and other paid leave including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.