Senior Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer

The Senior Cloud Engineer at KBX is a high-impact individual contributor who designs, builds, and operates a modern AWS-first cloud platform that enables application teams to deliver products securely and efficiently. This senior-level role combines hands-on engineering with ownership across cloud infrastructure, advanced networking, Amazon EKS/Kubernetes, service mesh, automation, security, reliability, and cost optimization. Senior engineers help shape the platform strategy, establish engineering standards, lead the resolution of complex technical challenges, and influence cloud decisions for the organization.

We partner closely with Software Engineering and DevOps, Security, and IT leadership to create secure, scalable, and reliable platform solutions, strengthen engineering practices, and accelerate the responsible adoption of cloud and AI technologies. We value technical curiosity, critical thinking, knowledge sharing, technical leadership, and a "can-do" attitude.

Design and evolve secure, scalable, highly available AWS infrastructure and multi-account platform solutions in alignment with enterprise security, compliance, reliability, and business requirements.

Lead the technical direction and lifecycle strategy of our cloud platform including the Kubernetes-based platform (Amazon EKS) and shared services, Istio, Amazon MSK/Kafka, and Redis/ElastiCache.

Build and govern Infrastructure as Code and GitOps practices using Terraform, Argo CD, Helm, and GitHub Actions to enable consistent, automated provisioning, testing, configuration, and deployment.

Assist in defining platform standards, reusable capabilities, and operational controls that enable application teams to adopt cloud and AI technologies securely, reliably, and at scale.

Design and implement cloud security guardrails, including IAM, network policies, encryption, and secrets management, while proactively remediating vulnerabilities based on risk.

Contribute to observability practices across logging, metrics, and tracing; use platform data to improve operational health.

Lead incident response and root-cause analysis for complex cloud and platform issues, driving durable improvements that reduce recurrence.

Partner with Software and Engineering, DevOps, Security, and IT leadership teams to translate requirements into platform solutions, accelerate onboarding, and remove infrastructure barriers to delivery.

Implement FinOps practices for cost allocation, tagging, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting; guide teams in balancing cost, performance, reliability, risk, and business value.

Provide hands-on technical leadership by producing high-quality infrastructure code, conducting architecture and code reviews, and modeling engineering best practices for security, reliability, and maintainability.

Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, raise technical standards, and influence cloud and platform architecture decisions across teams without relying on direct authority.

Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and strategic trade-offs, leading the adoption of tools, frameworks, and processes that support immediate needs and long-term platform strategy.

Experience designing, implementing, and supporting production AWS environments that use multiple accounts, VPCs, compute, storage, IAM roles, and network services.

Experience designing and troubleshooting AWS network connectivity and security using VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups, PrivateLink, VPNs, or comparable services at enterprise scale

Experience deploying and operating production container workloads on Amazon EKS or ECS, including container networking and ingress configuration

Experience building and maintaining reusable cloud infrastructure with Terraform and automating deployments or operational workflows through GitHub Actions or another CI/CD platform.

Experience creating/maintaining automation using either Python or shell scripts

Experience applying cloud security and reliability practices(including IAM, encryption, secrets management, monitoring, logging, high availability, incident response, and root-cause analysis)

Experience making recommendations and solutioning for the companies cloud strategy

Experience supporting an internal cloud or developer platform used by multiple application teams.

Experience implementing or operating a service mesh, such as Istio, and an API gateway, such as Gloo, kgateway, Kong, or a comparable technology, in a production environment.

Experience using GitOps practices and a tool such as Argo CD to deploy and manage workloads on Kubernetes.

Experience configuring Cloudflare or a comparable CDN, DNS, or web security platform for traffic management and application protection.

Experience integrating on-premises systems with AWS resources in a hybrid or multi-cloud environment, including network connectivity or identity federation.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (or higher).

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or similar Kubernetes certification.

KBX Logistics, a Koch company and global leader in transportation, offers world-class, technology-driven capabilities across all modes of managed freight and transportation asset management. KBX is uniquely positioned to meet the challenges shippers face, leveraging decades of firsthand experience and data-driven insights from a large, diverse, and global business network. By building mutually beneficial partnerships and innovative technology, KBX creates a competitive advantage for its customers and meets the growing need for cost effective and reliable supply chain solutions. For more information on KBX, visit

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