Cloud Engineer

Company: LanceSoft, Inc.

Job Title: Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Work Mode: 100% Remote
Equipment: Provided and shipped to the candidate's address
Employment Type: Independent Contractor (hourly pay; no benefits; candidate responsible for own taxes)
Contract Duration: Open-ended
Work Schedule: 8 hours per day, 5 days per week, with overlap during PST business hours
About the Role
We are seeking Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to support and maintain cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines in a dynamic environment leveraging Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Postgres, and Terraform. This engineer will be responsible for infrastructure and tooling across the organization while helping ensure reliable, scalable, and efficient operations. In this role, you will automate infrastructure provisioning, manage containerized applications, and maintain CI/CD workflows to support smooth deployments. You will work closely with engineering teams to troubleshoot issues, implement best practices, and improve system reliability and performance across multi-cloud environments.
The ideal candidate will have a broad infrastructure background and experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Cloud Infrastructure Engineering.
Requirements
* 4+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, or a similar role.
* Must have experience with AWS, Kubernetes and AWK.
* Experience with relational databases such as Postgres or MySQL.
* Experience with GitOps and CI/CD tools such as Harness, Argo, Flux, or Jenkins.
* Familiarity with declarative infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
* Exposure to logging, monitoring, metrics collection, and observability tools such as DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or CloudWatch.
* Collaboration with other engineers working primarily in PST
Nice to Have
* Experience with software development and automation using languages beyond shell scripting, such as Golang, Python, Elixir, or Java.
* Experience developing platforms and tools for development, staging, and integration environments.
* Experience debugging application performance or networking issues in Kubernetes environments.
* Experience with audit and compliance frameworks such as SOX, SOC2, ISO27001, or PCI DSS.
* Working knowledge of UNIX-based operating systems.
* Computer Science or Engineering degree.
Responsibilities
* Participate in a regular on-call rotation and respond to incidents reliably and professionally.
* Maintain and evolve our AWS cloud infrastructure, employing automation, and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
* Build and maintain code pipelines and develop automation that enables agile software development, utilizing self-service approaches where possible.
* Manage and support containerized environments running on Kubernetes.
* Collaborate effectively with Software Engineers and other team members to solve complex technical challenges.
* Troubleshoot infrastructure, application performance, and networking issues.
* Quickly absorb technical context and knowledge while ramping up in the environment.
* Support system reliability, deployment processes, and operational excellence across cloud platforms.

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