Role: Senior Cloud & Infra Security Consultant
Location: US Bay Area San Jose, CA
The pay range for this role is $110,000 - $120,000* per annum
Contract $65 hr C2C/ $55 W2
Role Overview:
We are seeking a Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer to support our cloud platform initiatives, automation efforts, and operational reliability across AWS and Azure environments. This role blends cloud engineering, infrastructure reliability, automation development, and security-minded platform design. The engineer should be capable of stabilizing cloud workloads, optimizing operational maturity, and building scalable patterns that improve availability and resilience.
Key Responsibilities
Cloud Architecture & Platform Engineering
- Design, deploy, and enhance scalable infrastructure services across AWS and Azure.
- Improve posture, configuration hygiene, and guardrail enforcement at the platform level.
- Partner with platform and security teams to create resilient cloud architectures.
Infrastructure Reliability & Operations
- Stabilize cloud infrastructure services by improving uptime, observability, and incident recovery.
- Lead troubleshooting of operational failures, configuration drift, and deployment instability.
- Automate operational workflows to minimize recurring issues and manual intervention.
Automation, Tooling & CI/CD Enablement
- Build automation for cloud provisioning, configuration validation, and remediation workflows.
- Improve CI/CD security and deployment efficiency through pipelines, controls, and tooling.
- Develop reusable infrastructure modules to accelerate engineering velocity.
Systems, Identity & Control Integration
- Integrate cloud identity, logging, telemetry, and monitoring into standardized platform patterns.
- Provide cross-team guidance on secure workload enablement and operational best practices.
- Improve cloud visibility and ensure system state reflects intended configurations.
Cross-Team Enablement & Advisory
- Work closely with platform, detection, IAM, and compliance teams.
- Provide architectural input to application and engineering teams adopting cloud services.
- Share insights related to risk reduction, optimization, and operational scaling.
Required Skills & Experience
- 8-10+ years of experience in cloud or infrastructure engineering roles.
- Strong proficiency with AWS and/or Azure architecture, services, networking, and IAM concepts.
Hands-on experience:
- Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, Pulumi, etc.)
- Automation tooling (Python, PowerShell, Go, etc.)
- CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, etc.)
- Proven ability to diagnose and improve reliability issues, scaling constraints, or deployment failures.
Preferred Skills
- Background in reliability engineering, SRE, cloud security, or operational automation.
- Experience with logging, monitoring, and observability platforms.
- Familiarity with multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud architectural design patterns.
- Experience integrating cloud controls with platform enablement workflows.
Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills
- Background in reliability engineering, SRE, cloud security, or operational automation.
- Experience with logging, monitoring, and observability platforms.
- Familiarity with multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud architectural design patterns.
- Container and Kubernetes Experience (Nice to Have / Optional):
- Operating Kubernetes clusters (EKS/AKS/GKE) or supporting containerized workloads
- Understanding of orchestration fundamentals, cluster lifecycle, and workload identity
Exposure to Helm, container registries, admission controls, or cloud-native observability stacks