Senior Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer

Koch Engineered Solutions is hiring a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, build, automate, secure, and operate scalable cloud and hybrid infrastructure. This is a hands-on, engineering-focused role responsible for cloud architecture, Infrastructure as Code, reliability, security, governance, automation, and modernization. The ideal candidate combines deep cloud engineering expertise with familiarity in modern platform engineering practices, supporting reusable patterns, self-service capabilities, CI/CD collaboration, and developer enablement.

Responsibilities include:

• Design, build, and support secure, scalable, and resilient cloud infrastructure, with AWS as the primary area of focus.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and related automation practices.
• Create reusable cloud patterns for networking, compute, storage, identity, monitoring, backup, and recovery.
• Improve cloud reliability through observability, alerting, incident response, root cause analysis, and operational hardening.
• Partner with security teams to implement IAM, access controls, encryption, network segmentation, logging, and governance guardrails.
• Support cloud cost transparency and optimization through tagging, rightsizing, usage analysis, and lifecycle management.
• Leverage and explore AI-enabled capabilities to improve infrastructure operations, automation, troubleshooting, monitoring, and overall cloud engineering productivity.
• Help modernize legacy infrastructure and enable more automated, repeatable, and cloud-native delivery models.
• Collaborate with application, DevOps, architecture, and infrastructure teams to support delivery while reducing manual effort and operational friction.
• Contribute to platform engineering foundations such as standard templates, reusable deployment patterns, self-service infrastructure concepts, and improved developer experience.

Qualifications include:

• Proven expertise in IT infrastructure, systems, cloud, DevOps, or platform engineering experience.
• Deep hands-on experience designing, building, and operating cloud environments, preferably AWS.
• Strong experience with Terraform or comparable Infrastructure as Code tooling.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, IAM, security controls, monitoring, backup, recovery, and hybrid connectivity.
• Experience supporting production environments and troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues.
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders and mentor other engineers.

Additional desirable skills include:

• Experience with Kubernetes, EKS/ECS, Docker, serverless, CI/CD tools, and observability platforms.
• Experience with scripting or automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages.
• Exposure to FinOps, disaster recovery planning, cloud security tooling, policy-as-code, or AI/ML infrastructure needs.

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