Senior Cloud Engineer

About ESG - USA

The Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer will lead the design, implementation, and optimization of scalable, secure, and highly available cloud and on-prem infrastructure. This role partners closely with application development, security, and infrastructure teams to drive automation, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency across the organization.

As a senior-level contributor, you will provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, influence architectural decisions, and own complex cloud and DevOps initiatives from design through production. The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on expertise in cloud platforms, virtualization, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and cloud cost optimization (FinOps) in hybrid environments.

We are seeking a Mid-Senior DevOps Engineer with **8+ years of relevant experience** who is eager to grow their skills and contribute to our dynamic team.

Responsibilities

• Lead collaboration with application development teams to design and implement reliable, automated CI/CD pipelines
• Architect, implement, and maintain cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code best practices
• Drive automation initiatives across provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and recovery processes
• Design, implement, and maintain observability platforms, with a strong focus on Datadog for metrics, logs, traces, and alerting
• Establish monitoring, SLOs, and alerting strategies to improve system reliability and reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR)
• Own and optimize cloud cost efficiency, identifying savings opportunities and implementing cost controls without compromising performance
• Implement and maintain configuration management using tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
• Own and optimize VMware environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance
• Serve as a senior escalation point for production incidents, performing root cause analysis and driving long-term remediation
• Partner with security teams to enforce infrastructure security, compliance, and best practices
• Lead disaster recovery planning, testing, and continuous improvement efforts
• Perform regular system performance tuning, capacity planning, and cost analysis
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and contribute to technical standards and documentation
• Create and maintain detailed architecture diagrams and operational documentation

Requirements

• **\*THIS POSITION DOES NOT OFFER VISA SPONSORSHIP, NOW OR AT ANY TIME IN THE FUTURE\***
• As a Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer, you will design and optimize scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, or GCP, providing technical leadership for automation and reliability initiatives.
• You will manage VMware and container platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes to support stable deployments across Windows and Linux environments.
• Leveraging scripting languages (Python, PowerShell, Bash, or Go) and infrastructure as code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation, you will drive standardized, automated provisioning and delivery.
• Experience with CI/CD tools including Jenkins, GitLab CI, and Git is essential for building efficient deployment pipelines.
• Strong operational knowledge of SQL Server, IIS, and monitoring platforms such as ELK, Prometheus, or Grafana will support production performance and troubleshooting in fast-paced, agile environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred
• 7-8+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering
• 5+ years designing, operating, and optimizing complex enterprise environments across Windows, Linux, and SQL-based systems
• Strong expertise in enterprise data center technologies, including Storage platforms, Network switching and Security infrastructure
• Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred; Azure or GCP acceptable)
• Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Advanced knowledge of virtualization and container platforms: VMware (vSphere, ESXi, vCenter) and Docker/Kubernetes in production environments
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, and/or Go
• Experience implementing observability and monitoring solutions, including Datadog
• Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to manage priorities, influence stakeholders, and lead technical initiatives

Preferred

• Experience leading large-scale cloud migrations to AWS.
• Strong SQL Server administration experience.
• CI/CD expertise with Jenkins, GitLab CI, Git, Jira, or CircleCI.
• Cloud cost optimization and FinOps experience (rightsizing, RI/Savings Plans, tagging, budgets).
• Ability to establish DevOps and cloud governance standards.

Pay

USD 110,000–135,000

Work arrangement

This is a **hybrid position**, and we expect the candidate to work **2-3 days a week on-site** at our office.