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Senior Central Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
$170K–$225K
Seattle, Washington, United States +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 10, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, Washington, United States
Los Angeles, California, United States
New York, New York, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with a relevant degree, or 8+ years of equivalent professional experience.
- Education
- BS degree in Computer Science or a relevant technical/engineering discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
About the job
Architects, scales, and maintains secure, resilient cloud infrastructure across products, modernizes legacy systems, and provides technical leadership for operations and reliability.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain cloud infrastructure and lead modernization and legacy-system integrations.
- Develop disaster recovery, troubleshoot production systems, and lead incident response and root-cause analysis.
- Guide engineers and ensure cloud environments meet security and compliance requirements, including PCI and SOC2.
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 an equivalent automation language (Bash/Go).
- Hands-on expertise with observability, Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, service mesh/L7 proxies, and Kubernetes ingress.
- Experience with secrets management, AWS MSK (Kafka), managed SQL and NoSQL databases, cloud networking, and Linux server environments.
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, Envoy/Istio
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