Senior Terraform Developer

Role- Senior Terraform Developer
Location- Bellevue, WA / Dallas, TX / Atlanta, GA / Overland Park, KS (Hybrid)

Contract

About the Role:

We're looking for a Senior Terraform Developer with architect-level infrastructure-as-code expertise to join our team. This person will take requirements and requests from stakeholders and independently design, build, and deliver production-grade Terraform solutions with minimal oversight. You'll be a go-to authority on infrastructure automation, module design, and IaC best practices across the organization.

What You'll Do:
Translate infrastructure and platform requests from the team into well-architected Terraform solutions, working independently from requirements to delivery.
Design, build, and maintain reusable, versioned Terraform modules for multi-environment, multi-account/multi-cloud infrastructure.
Own the architecture of the team's IaC codebase: state management strategy, module structure, workspace/environment separation, and CI/CD pipelines for Terraform.
Review Terraform code quality, security, and cost implications; set and enforce standards for the broader engineering org.
Troubleshoot complex state, drift, and dependency issues, and lead remediation efforts.
Partner with security, platform, and application teams to ensure infrastructure changes meet compliance and governance requirements.
Evaluate and integrate tooling (policy-as-code, testing frameworks, module registries) to mature the IaC practice.
Document architecture decisions and provide clear runbooks/guidance so requests can be handed off with minimal back-and-forth.

What We're Looking For:
10+ years of general software/infrastructure engineering experience.
5+ years of hands-on Terraform experience, including designing module architecture from scratch (not just consuming existing modules).
Demonstrated ability to take a request or requirement and deliver a finished, production-ready solution with limited guidance or hand-holding.
Deep knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP); multi-cloud experience a plus.
Strong grasp of Terraform state management, workspaces, remote backends, and collaboration patterns at scale.
Experience with CI/CD for infrastructure (e.g., Atlantis, Terraform Cloud/Enterprise, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
Familiarity with policy-as-code (Sentinel, OPA/Conftest) and automated testing for infrastructure (Terratest or similar).
Solid understanding of networking, security groups/IAM, and cloud cost optimization.
Excellent written communication able to document decisions and hand off work clearly to a distributed/remote team.

Nice to Have:
Experience with Kubernetes provisioning via Terraform.
Contributions to public or internal Terraform module registries.
Prior experience mentoring or leading a small team of infrastructure engineers.