Senior Cloud Engineer F/H

Are you ready to invent the future of cloud infrastructure? Join us to shape a new era in cloud computing and build a career that matches your ambition. We are looking for Cloud Engineers to design, deploy, and operate the infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) layer of the Outscale cloud in Houston, TX or in Secaucus, NJ.  

You will work at the intersection of our Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and the underlying physical infrastructure, driving automation, expanding services to new regions, and ensuring the platform is secure, resilient, high performing, and compliant. You will partner with infrastructure development, automation, and operations teams to implement cloud best practices and deliver production ready, compliant cloud solutions. 

Key Responsibilities  

• Deploy, operate, and maintain the OUTSCALE cloud platform, with a focus on scalability, performance, reliability, and security. 
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation pipelines using Terraform, Ansible, SaltStack, Packer, Jenkins, and related tools.
• Automate and standardize deployments, upgrades, and regional expansions through repeatable and auditable release processes. 
• Improve platform performance, resilience, scalability, and cost efficiency while contributing to its technical evolution. 
• Define and track SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and other key operational metrics. 
• Build and maintain monitoring and observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, and the ELK Stack. 
• Identify and address performance issues, security risks, and single points of failure. 
• Lead incident investigations, conduct root-cause analyses, and participate in the on-call rotation. 
• Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures, and lead internal knowledge-sharing sessions. 
• Collaborate with engineering, security, product, support, vendor, and partner teams. 
• Support capacity planning and infrastructure roadmap development. 
• Ensure compliance with internal security policies and applicable regulatory requirements

Minimum Qualifications  

• 8–10 years of experience in infrastructure/cloud engineering 
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or a related discipline. 
• Strong infrastructure virtualization and system administration skills 
• Good working knowledge of AWS based infrastructure services 
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Bash and Python 3. 
• Expertise in infrastructure automation with SaltStack or Ansible; SaltStack experience is preferred. 
• US Citizenship required; eligibility for security clearance is a must for this role. 

Preferred Qualifications  

• Deep understanding of networking fundamentals and physical and virtual compute, storage, and infrastructure technologies. 
• Experience with data protection, backup, disaster recovery, and compliance frameworks. 
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes architecture and operations. 
• Experience administering HAProxy, NGINX, Redis, and database technologies. 
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools, including Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, and the ELK Stack. 
• Experience with virtualization technologies such as QEMU, KVM, and VMware ESXi. 
• Hands-on experience with IaC and automation tools, including Terraform, Packer, and Jenkins. 
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, with an automation-first mindset.