Metropolis
Senior Central Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
$170K–$225K
New York, New York, United States +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 10, 2026
- Location
- New York, New York, United States
Los Angeles, California, United States
Seattle, Washington, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of hands-on experience, or equivalent professional experience (8+ years).
- Education
- BS degree in Computer Science or a relevant technical/engineering discipline, or equivalent professional experience (8+ years).
About the job
Architects and operates a secure, resilient central cloud platform across multiple products, modernizing infrastructure and integrating legacy systems.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure; lead modernization and legacy-system integrations.
- Develop disaster recovery, troubleshoot Linux and Windows environments, and lead incident response and root-cause analysis.
- Support PCI and SOC2 compliance and guide engineers through technical leadership.
What they ask for
- BS in Computer Science or a relevant technical/engineering discipline and 5+ years of hands-on experience, or equivalent professional experience (8+ years).
- Production-level experience with AWS, Terraform, Atmos, and Python or equivalent automation language (Bash/Go).
- Hands-on experience with observability, Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, service mesh or L7 proxies, secrets management, and cloud networking.
- Experience with AWS MSK (Kafka), SQL and NoSQL managed databases including Amazon Aurora; expert Linux competency (and Windows where applicable).
Nice to have
- Experience in innovative, high-growth tech start-ups or fast-paced corporate engineering environments.
Pay
$170,000.00 USD to $225,000.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS, Terraform, Atmos, Python, Bash, Go, Datadog, Kubernetes/EKS
AI focus
Infrastructure modernization initiatives include AI; no specific AI development responsibilities are stated.
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