Staff IT Cloud Engineer

• 10+ years of IT infrastructure, cloud engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or enterprise architecture experience with a bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or related field, OR 14+ years of equivalent practical experience
• Strong hands-on experience designing, implementing, and operating enterprise cloud environments in AWS, OCI, Azure, or similar large-scale cloud platforms
• Practical experience with AWS services such as VPC, IAM, EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, Route53, CloudWatch, security services, and hybrid networking architectures strongly preferred
• Experience with OCI services including networking, IAM, compute, storage, databases, Kubernetes, governance, or security concepts is highly desirable but not required
• Advanced Terraform expertise including reusable module strategy, remote state management, infrastructure automation, policy enforcement, and multi-environment IaC governance
• Strong CI/CD fundamentals with experience building pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps, OCI DevOps, or equivalent enterprise tooling
• Experience with Kubernetes and container platforms such as EKS, OKE, AKS, or self-managed Kubernetes environments
• Strong understanding of enterprise cloud governance, FinOps principles, cloud security architecture, compliance controls, operational risk management, and secure infrastructure design
• Strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals including DNS, load balancing, routing, hybrid connectivity, segmentation, firewalling, and enterprise security concepts
• Experience implementing observability, monitoring, logging, incident response, operational support, and reliability engineering practices in enterprise cloud environments
• Proven ability to drive cross-functional technical initiatives and influence senior stakeholders without direct authority
• Clear written and verbal communication skills across engineering teams, operational stakeholders, security organizations, and executive leadership

• Experience supporting multicloud, hybrid enterprise environments spanning AWS, OCI, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure
• OCI certifications such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional and/or OCI Multicloud Architect Professional
• AWS certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, or equivalent cloud certifications
• Experience with Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE), Amazon EKS, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and cloud-native workload deployment patterns
• Experience with Oracle database platforms, Autonomous Database, Exadata Cloud Service, or enterprise HA/DR architectures
• Experience implementing FinOps programs, governance frameworks, or cloud operational maturity initiatives at enterprise scale
• Familiarity with AI/ML, analytics, or large-scale data platform workloads in cloud environments
• Experience building self-service platform capabilities, engineering standards, and infrastructure automation practices across enterprise organizations

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