Senior Cloud Operations Engineer

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential SaaS organization that is expanding its worldwide 24x7 Cloud Operations Team. Our client is seeking a Senior Cloud Operations Engineer who will be hands-on in building, maintaining, and troubleshooting customer environments for mission-critical applications across AWS and Azure platforms.

This role is available for U.S.-based candidates working EST hours, with options for hybrid work in Portsmouth, NH or fully remote. Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Responsibilities

• Lead Cloud Operations Excellence: Own and enhance monitoring, observability, and alerting frameworks across AWS, Azure, and other platforms. Define SLIs/SLOs and drive continuous reliability improvements.
• Drive Automation & Infrastructure as Code: Architect and maintain scalable, reusable IaC solutions using Terraform, Terragrunt, and Ansible. Champion automation-first approaches to eliminate manual operational tasks.
• Security & Compliance Leadership: Design and enforce cloud security best practices, governance, and compliance standards. Lead vulnerability assessments and remediation strategies across environments.
• Reliability & Resilience Engineering: Design and implement disaster recovery (DR), backup strategies, and high availability architectures. Lead incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and postmortem reviews with actionable improvements.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Engineering, QA, and Product teams to improve system architecture and application performance. Influence design decisions to enhance scalability, resilience, and operational efficiency.
• Cloud Networking Architecture: Design and manage complex networking setups including VPNs, Direct Connect, Transit Gateways, and hybrid connectivity.
• Performance Optimization: Identify bottlenecks and lead initiatives to optimize system performance and cost efficiency.
• Mentorship & Leadership: Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team skill development. Define and promote best practices across cloud operations.
• On-Call & Incident Leadership: Participate in and lead on-call rotations. Act as escalation point for critical incidents and ensure rapid resolution.

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of relevant experience in cloud operations, SRE, or infrastructure engineering
• Strong expertise in AWS and/or Azure
• Deep experience with Linux and/or Windows server environments
• Proven experience leading operational initiatives in production environments
• Strong communication skills in English (written and verbal)

Preferred Technical Experience:

• Database: PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server
• Scripting: Python, Java, Bash,.NET/C#, PowerShell
• IaC and Automation: Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, Rundeck, Jenkins
• Cloud networking concepts: VPN, direct connect, transit gateways
• Container Technologies: Docker, Kubernetes
• Cloud-native technologies: RDS, Microservices, Serverless computing

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team will review your profile and conduct an initial screening. If there's a strong match, we will submit your candidacy to our client for consideration. Please do not contact the client directly—all communication and coordination will flow through our recruiting team to ensure the best experience for you.

Pay

Our client has indicated a base salary range of $115,000 to $160,000 annually for this position, dependent on location and experience.

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