Cloud Engineer – Platform & Automation

About the Role

We are seeking a hands-on Cloud Engineer to design, build, automate, and operate cloud infrastructure and platform services. This role requires strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, container orchestration, and cloud-native databases, along with a mindset focused on reliability, automation, and operational excellence.

You will work closely with platform, cloud operations, and engineering teams to support environment provisioning, platform upgrades, system migrations, and continuous improvement of cloud infrastructure.

Core Responsibilities (High Level)

• Design, provision, and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code
• Operate and support Kubernetes clusters in production environments
• Build and maintain GitOps-based deployment and configuration workflows
• Support cloud database platforms and platform services in production
• Contribute to environment setup, upgrades, migrations, and reliability initiatives
• Develop automation and tooling to improve operational efficiency
• Troubleshoot infrastructure and platform issues across environments
• Collaborate with Cloud Operations and Engineering teams to ensure stable, scalable systems

Required Skills & Experience

• 4+ years of hands-on experience in Cloud / Platform / SRE / DevOps engineering
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)
• Excellent knowledge of Kubernetes (operations, troubleshooting, upgrades, networking, storage)
• Strong experience with MySQL in production environments
• Very good hands-on expertise with GitOps workflows (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux, or similar)
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language (Bash, Python, etc.)
• Solid understanding of:
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Cloud networking and security fundamentals
  • Monitoring and logging systems
  • High availability and reliability concepts

Preferred / Plus Skills

• Experience with MariaDB
• Experience operating Kafka in production environments
• Experience with multi-region or large-scale cloud platforms
• Exposure to zero-downtime upgrades and platform migrations

Soft Skills

• Strong problem-solving and debugging ability
• Comfortable working in production environments
• Good communication and collaboration skills
• Ownership mindset and attention to detail
• Ability to work independently in a remote, distributed team

Work Requirements

• Must support US Eastern time zone
• Remote work acceptable with required time-zone coverage