Senior Cloud Engineer

BlackCloak’s mission is to protect corporate executives and high-profile individuals in their personal lives, mitigating risks to their families, companies, reputation, and finances. We defend our clients’ digital lives from hackers, privacy leaks, and identity theft. If you are passionate about helping to protect others, then keep reading - this may be your next great opportunity.  As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will be a key member of BlackCloak’s internal technology team, responsible for the architecture, reliability, and automation of our cloud infrastructure. This role sits at the intersection of development, security, and operations, where you will design scalable environments, automate deployment pipelines, and ensure our cloud presence is robust and performant. You will be a builder, an orchestrator, and an operator, driving the success of BlackCloak’s platform by delivering modern, automated technology solutions. What You Will Do

Architect and Manage Cloud Infrastructure: Design, deploy, and maintain highly available and scalable environments within GCP.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Drive the adoption of Terraform to manage all infrastructure through code, ensuring environment consistency and version control.

Cloud Operations & Monitoring: Expand the observability capabilities of the platform and own the day-to-day health of production environments.

Collaborative DevOps: Partner closely with engineers to improve the developer experience, assisting with containerization (Docker/K8s) and deployment strategies.

CI/CD Automation: Build and optimize robust CI/CD pipelines to streamline application delivery, integrating automated testing and deployment gates.

Secure Infrastructure Design: Partner with security engineering to implement cloud hardening standards, IAM architecture and policies, secrets management, and overall Cloud infrastructure and security best practices.

Performance Optimization: Analyze cloud spend and resource utilization to optimize for cost and performance across all environments.

Automated Remediation: Develop scripts and playbooks to automate routine operational tasks and self-healing infrastructure.

What You Will Need to be Successful

5+ years of hands-on experience in a Cloud Engineering, SRE, or DevOps role, preferably within a cloud-native SaaS, startup environment.

Public Cloud Expertise: Strong proficiency in managing public cloud environments, with a primary focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Automation Mindset: Proven experience with Terraform, Ansible, or Pulumi for infrastructure automation.

Cloud Operations Expertise: Demonstrated experience managing production workloads at scale, including log aggregation, proactive alerting, and incident response.

Operational Mindset: A safety-first approach to changes, with experience in canary deployments, blue-green releases, and automated rollbacks.

Containerization: Solid understanding of Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes (GKE).

Pipeline Experience: Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins).

Scripting: Proficiency in at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, Bash) to automate manual processes.

Collaborative Problem-Solver: Ability to work across Engineering, Security, and Product teams to translate business requirements into technical architecture.