Altana AI
Senior Engineering Manager, Cloud Engineering
$240K–$280K
Brooklyn, NY +3 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY
San Francisco, CA
Brooklyn, NY
San Francisco, CA - Experience
- 8+ years building and operating cloud infrastructure in production; direct engineering management experience is required.
- Education
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads a cloud engineering team that builds and operates repeatable, secure, accredited environments for government customers across AWS and Azure.
What you'll do
- Own architecture and operations of regulated and sovereign environments, including infrastructure-as-code, Kubernetes, and release tooling.
- Standardize environment builds, operational practices, security controls, and accreditation processes while maintaining reliability and cost efficiency.
- Lead, coach, hire, and manage a distributed engineering team; coordinate technical decisions and priorities with internal teams and customers.
What they ask for
- 8+ years building and operating production cloud infrastructure, including end-to-end ownership of an environment.
- Direct experience delivering into US federal or other highly regulated government environments, such as FedRAMP or an equivalent program.
- Production experience with AWS and/or Azure; strong Infrastructure as Code skills using Terraform, OpenTofu, or similar, and hands-on Kubernetes experience.
- Direct engineering management experience, including performance, growth, and hiring; BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
- Eligibility for a US security clearance.
- Experience with non-US accreditation regimes or taking a compliance program from zero through authorization and assessment.
Pay
$240,000 - $280,000 USD base salary
Tools
AWS, Azure, Terraform, OpenTofu, Kubernetes
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