Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer
Onsite in Foster City, CA | at least 3 days in office


*** is expanding its IT Platform team to support our mission of Autonomous Mobility. We're looking for a Cloud Engineer to help operate and support our AWS environment, working closely with the Cloud Engineering team and partnering with engineering teams across IT & Applications, Infrastructure, Product Software, Data Platform, and Manufacturing Operations. This role executes day-to-day provisioning, automation, and support work that keeps ***'s AWS platform running securely and reliably.



In this role, you will:


- Provision and manage AWS accounts and tenant structures, including IAM users/roles, cross-account access, and SSO group setup, following established playbooks


- Write and maintain Terraform modules - both applying existing centralized modules and authoring new ones - for account setup, networking, IAM, and resource provisioning


- Build and configure AWS networking resources (VPCs, subnets, VPC peering, routing) based on team designs


- Support secrets management workflows (AWS Secrets Manager, Vault) for integrations with third-party platforms (e.g., Mulesoft)


- Apply security and governance guardrails to provisioned resources (least-privilege IAM, encryption, AMI/container compliance checks)


- Troubleshoot and resolve day-to-day AWS support tickets across compute, storage, and networking for cross-functional customers (engineering tools, HPC/simulation workloads, mission control systems, data platform, manufacturing systems)


- Follow and help maintain runbooks/playbooks for recurring provisioning and operational tasks


- Escalate architectural or ambiguous issues to senior team members while owning execution of well-defined requests

Qualifications:


- 5+ years of experience


- Hands-on experience with AWS in a production environment - compute, storage, networking, and IAM


- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform, including writing and modifying modules


- Working knowledge of AWS networking fundamentals (VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups)


- Understanding of IAM and cloud security fundamentals (least privilege, encryption, secrets management)


- Comfortable working from tickets, playbooks, and runbooks, and following documented processes accurately


- Good written and verbal communication skills; able to work with engineers and business stakeholders to clarify requirements


- Ability to work independently on well-scoped tasks while knowing when to escalate

Bonus Qualifications:


- Experience with Terraform Cloud, Spacelift, or similar centralized IaC platforms


- Exposure to multi-account AWS environments (Landing Zones, Control Tower)


- Experience with containerized workloads (Kubernetes/EKS)


- Familiarity with monitoring/alerting tools (e.g., Grafana, CloudWatch)


- Exposure to AI/ML or HPC cloud workloads