[Remote] Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. RC Talent is recruiting for an established industrial technology company seeking a Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer. The role will lead the architecture, modernization, security, scalability, and reliability of an AWS-based cloud platform processing large volumes of machine-generated telemetry, while partnering with engineering teams and supporting operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Build, deploy, and support scalable cloud infrastructure with AWS as the primary platform
- Design and manage dependable web services, APIs, and data-ingestion pipelines
- Drive the adoption and standardization of Infrastructure as Code through Terraform and related technologies
- Create and improve queue-based, event-driven architectures that support distributed processing and large telemetry volumes
- Build secure, scalable solutions using containerized and serverless approaches when they are the right fit
- Define and promote infrastructure standards across observability, security, cost management, disaster recovery, deployment automation, and reliability
- Contribute to compliance efforts involving GDPR and SOC 2 requirements
- Develop and maintain secure approaches to networking, secrets management, and identity and access management
- Partner with product, AI, backend, and firmware engineering teams to improve platform scale and operational performance
- Assess database options and recommend the appropriate technology based on workload needs and technical tradeoffs
- Strengthen continuous integration, continuous delivery, and broader engineering workflows
- Assist with production incident response, operational diagnosis, and technical troubleshooting
Skills
- 5+ years of professional experience across software engineering and infrastructure
- Extensive hands-on experience managing large-scale production workloads within AWS
- Demonstrated ability to architect, design, implement, and support cloud-native infrastructure
- Substantial experience building Infrastructure as Code solutions with Terraform, Pulumi, or similar
- Deep knowledge of event-driven design, distributed systems, and asynchronous processing
- Experience developing and supporting data-ingestion systems that use serverless technologies, streams, and queues
- Strong command of API design, TLS, DNS, IAM, networking, and cloud security
- Experience working within SOC 2-compliant environments, along with an understanding of GDPR obligations
- Proven experience supporting, operating, and diagnosing production web applications and APIs
- Strong knowledge of database architectures and their tradeoffs, including object storage platforms, relational databases, time-series databases, caching technologies, etc
- Strong understanding of operational tooling, logging, monitoring, and observability practices
- Experience building systems designed for resilience, fault tolerance, and continued availability
- Highly effective communication skills with the ability to provide technical leadership
Benefits
- Bonus eligibility
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- 401(k) plan
- Life insurance
- Catered lunches
- Paid time off
- Company-sponsored benefits
- Remote work arrangement
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