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Implement scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure, primarily on AWS or comparable cloud platforms .
Analyze business and technical requirements to develop infrastructure specifications and architecture.
Design Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) environments using Terraform, CDKTF, AWS CDK, or equivalent tools to ensure consistency and repeatability.
Design and manage cloud networking, compute, storage, databases, and security services.
Optimize cloud architectures for cost efficiency, performance, scalability, and resilience.
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated build, testing, and deployment workflows.
Automate provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and scaling using modern DevOps and cloud-native tooling.
Work with cloud services such as AWS EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM, VPC, and CloudWatch , or equivalent services on other cloud platforms.
Integrate distributed systems, data pipelines, microservices, and containerized applications into unified automated delivery processes.
Implement blue/green, canary, rolling, and zero-downtime deployment strategies for enterprise-scale environments.
Build reusable automation and infrastructure modules that enable engineering teams to deploy services efficiently and consistently.
Design and maintain observability frameworks covering logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent platforms .
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Lead incident response and root-cause analysis for infrastructure, application, and deployment issues.
Implement resilience strategies including auto-scaling, auto-recovery, load balancing, redundancy, backups, disaster recovery, and multi-region or multi-availability-zone failover.
Establish operating procedures for monitoring, on-call rotations, incident response, capacity planning, and continuous system maintenance.
Support complex enterprise environments and distributed workforces with hundreds of thousands of users.
Define and improve service reliability metrics, operational standards, and automation to reduce manual intervention.
Implement DevSecOps best practices across cloud infrastructure and CI/CD workflows.
Integrate security scanning, vulnerability assessment, secrets management, dependency scanning, and automated compliance checks into deployment pipelines.
Apply cloud security best practices including IAM, least-privilege access, encryption, network segmentation, secrets management, and secure data flows .
Ensure infrastructure and deployment processes align with SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 , and other applicable regulatory and security standards.
Collaborate with security teams to continuously improve cloud security posture and governance.
Implement infrastructure policies and security controls through automation wherever possible.
Lead and coordinate DevOps initiatives across engineering, product, data, and security teams.
Partner with software engineers to ensure infrastructure aligns with application architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance requirements.
Drive operational improvements, tooling modernization, cloud adoption, and an automation-first engineering culture.
Identify infrastructure bottlenecks and proactively recommend architectural and operational improvements.
Share DevOps and cloud engineering best practices across engineering teams.
AWS and/or other major cloud platforms (Azure, GCP)
Terraform, CDKTF, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or other Infrastructure-as-Code tools
Docker and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, ECS, or EKS
CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions
Cloud-native compute, networking, storage, database, security, and observability services
Linux environments and systems administration
Python, Bash, or similar scripting and automation languages
Cloud networking, including VPCs, subnets, routing, DNS, load balancing, NAT, firewalls/security groups, and private connectivity
Identity and access management, including role-based access and least-privilege principles
Containerized and microservices-based architectures
Observability and monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent tools
High availability, scalability, disaster recovery, backup, and failover strategies
Cloud security best practices and automated compliance frameworks
CI/CD security and software supply-chain security
Cloud cost management and infrastructure optimization
Distributed systems and performance optimization
Node.js and Vue.js application deployment and operational requirements
Supporting complex enterprise environments with high availability and large user bases
Experience across multiple cloud providers is valuable, but deep expertise in one major cloud platform combined with strong cloud architecture fundamentals is more important than experience with any specific provider.
Dayforce is fueled by the diversity of our talented employees. We are an equal opportunity employer and consider and embrace ALL individuals and what makes them unique. We believe our employees should be happy and healthy, with peace of mind and a sense of fulfillment.
We encourage individuals to apply based on their passions.
Dayforce encourages personal and professional growth. We offer excellent time away from work programs, comprehensive wellness initiatives and recognition through competitive pay and benefits.
With a commitment to community impact, including volunteer days and our charity, Dayforce Cares we provide opportunities for you to thrive both in your career and personal life. Our focus is not just on your job but on supporting you to be the best version of yourself.
Artificial intelligence may be used in the screening, assessment, or selection of applicants for this position.
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Dayforce actively monitors all job applications to ensure authenticity. Submissions determined to be fraudulent or misleading will be declined from the recruitment process
Dayforce is a private HCM software company providing AI-powered HR, payroll, time, talent, and analytics to organizations.
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