IT Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Position Summary

Responsible for leading the design, implementation, and optimization of core cloud infrastructure and shared services. 

This role requires deep technical expertise and leadership skills to mentor junior engineers, drive automation efforts, and ensure cloud services are secure, scalable, aligned with business objectives, and provide excellent developer experience. 

Collaborates with cross-functional teams and takes ownership of the development of complex systems and troubleshooting incidents, contributing to the continuous improvement of the cloud platform and shared services

What You'll Do:
We are looking for a skilled and innovative IT Cloud Platform Engineer or IT Sr Cloud Platform Engineer to join our AI Center of Excellence (CoE) within the IT organization. This role is essential to designing, building, and optimizing the cloud infrastructure that powers our enterprise AI initiatives. You'll collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and DevOps professionals to ensure a secure, scalable, and high-performing AI/ML platform ecosystem. Primary Focus on creating and deploying intelligent applications.

Why Join Us?

• Shape the cloud backbone of transformative AI solutions in a forward-thinking IT team.
• Collaborate with top talent across data, engineering, and AI disciplines.

What Makes You Stand Out:

• Experience supporting GenAI/ML platforms
• Experience with cloud or on-prem tools to deploy and scale applications

Duties and Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and manage core cloud infrastructure and shared services, ensuring scalability, availability, performance, and guardrails to establish a secure and scalable landing zone for cloud deployments.
• Drive the development of platforms, tools, and services using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and other automation, improving deployment efficiency and enabling developer autonomy.
• Ensure compliance with standards and requirements, establishing guardrails and best practices for the cloud platform and shared services to protect resources, maintain compliance, and enhance operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, leading the design of cloud infrastructure and automation solutions that reduce complexity and enhance developer productivity.
• Participate in agile development processes, leading the team in sprint planning, iterative deployment, and continuous improvement of the cloud platform and shared services.
• Optimize core cloud infrastructure and shared service performance, leveraging observability tooling to proactively identify opportunities for improvement and ensuring reliable and efficient cloud services.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues, serving as the escalation point for critical incidents and ensuring rapid resolution of performance and availability problems.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, promoting best practices and fostering continuous learning and technical growth within the team.

The first five duties listed are the functions identified as essential to the job. Essential functions are those job duties that must be performed in order for the job to be accomplished.

This position description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the incumbent. Employees are required to follow any other job-related instruction and to perform any other duties as requested by their supervisor, or as become clear.
 

Capabilities

Qualifications

Minimum Educational and Experience Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent industry experience in a related technical field; and five years of professional experience in a related technical field; or
• Associate’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent industry experience in a related technical field; and seven years of professional experience in a related technical field; or
• High School degree and nine years of professional experience in a related technical field, required. 

Additional Experience

• Cloud Platforms: Advanced expertise in one or more cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), with hands-on experience in deploying, configuring, and managing cloud services.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, ARM, Pulumi), with the ability to automate cloud deployments and manage reusable modules.
• Cloud Security: Understanding of cloud security best practices, including identity and access management (IAM), encryption, and network security principles.
• Automation & DevOps: Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, Ansible), and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash, Powershell) for automating cloud processes and deployments.
• Cloud Networking: Proficiency in cloud networking concepts such as VPCs, Transit Gateways, load balancers, VPNs, and firewalls, with experience in ensuring secure and scalable connectivity in cloud and hybrid cloud environments.
• Monitoring & Troubleshooting: Proficiency in cloud monitoring and troubleshooting tools, with strong troubleshooting skills to resolve incidents and optimize platform performance. 

Designations and/or Licenses 

• Professional-level cloud certification (such as AWS Certified Cloud Solutions Architect – Professional) preferred or willingness to obtain within 6 months of hire.

Physical Requirements