Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
cvent
Job Description
- 8+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, and/or Security Engineering.
- Strong experience building automation, CI/CD pipelines (via Github Actions, Jenkins, and/or ArgoCD), configuration management, and infrastructure tooling using Python, TypeScript, or similar languages.
- Proven experience designing and operating AWS infrastructure in high-scale, multi-account, multi-region production environments.
- Experience with configuration management and systems automation using tools such as AWS Systems Manager, Chef, Ansible, Ansible AWX, Foreman, Red Hat Satellite.
- Experience supporting Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Rocky, Amazon, CentOS) environments in enterprise-scale infrastructure
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with other engineers, stakeholders, and technical leadership.
Nice-to-Have
- Hands-on experience with serverless architectures and AWS services such as Lambda, Step Functions, IAM, and related platform components.
- Strong experience building observability solutions in Datadog, migrating from other platforms such as Checkmk, Prometheus, Grafana, Solarwinds, Splunk, Nagios, and/or Zabbix.
- Experience building or improving internal developer platforms, self-service tooling, or cloud governance frameworks.
- Experience building infrastructure-as-code solutions using AWS CDK, ideally with TypeScript.
- Experience designing and operating infrastructure on-premise infrastructure, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Experience in networking including BGP, Direct Connect, or AWS Transit Gateway for enterprise-grade hybrid connectivity.
- Experience using Active Directory and Group Policy to manage access and system configuration.
- Experience with Bash, Microsoft PowerShell, VMware PowerCLI and transforming these scripts into automation tooling built on Python via AWS Step Functions and AWS Lambda.
- Experience with on-premise hypervisor platforms such as VMware ESXi, KVM, Proxmox, and/or Nutanix.
- Experience with Real Time Communications (RTC) and video streaming technologies including Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP), HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), WebRTC, Pexip Infinity, Vonage Video (formerly Tokbox OpenTok), Adobe Media Server, Wowza Streaming Engine, and/or FreeSWITCH.
- Experience with NVIDIA Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA).
- Experience evaluating emerging technologies and translating them into practical platform improvements.
- Understanding of Kubernetes infrastructure especially Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and/or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
- Understanding of web servers such as NGINX and Apache HTTP and web application services such as Oracle WebLogic and Apache Tomcat.
Success Factors
- You identify high-leverage opportunities to simplify, automate, and scale cloud operations
- You bring strong technical judgment and ownership to ambiguous, high-impact infrastructure challenges
- You create clarity through standards, documentation, and architectural direction that others can build on
- You multiply the effectiveness of the team through mentorship, collaboration, and principled engineering leadership