Senior Cloud Engineer
- Seattle, WA, United States
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Job Description
We are seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to join our Infrastructure Engineering team and lead the management of our multi-cloud environment, which includes AWS, GCP, Azure, and Snowflake. This is a high-impact role that involves close collaboration with Architects and Cloud Engineers across the IT department.
You will be responsible for overseeing the evolution of Slalom's multi-cloud infrastructure, ensuring that operations are secure, efficient, and cost-effective. Additionally, you will mentor the Infrastructure Operations team to support Tier I/II escalations.
This role is responsible for upholding infrastructure standards, contributing to design principles, and driving technical initiatives that shape the future of Slalom's global cloud infrastructure.
What You'll Do:
Cloud Platform Management and Excellence
- Manage and optimize cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake.
- Maintain Compliance baseline across all clouds.
- Drive cost optimization by identifying and removing unused resources, managing reserved instances, and establishing monitoring for critical cloud services.
Security and Governance
- Provision AWS accounts; apply guardrails via SCPs, IAM, and Identity Center.
- Design and enforce IAM/RBAC across all platforms using least-privilege principles
- Implement IAM roles and policies for Cloud Access and Configure SSO
- Collaborate with the Infosec team to integrate monitoring and security tools (e.g., LogicMonitor, Cyera, Rapid7).
Strategic Impact
- Partner with enterprise and infrastructure architects to translate designs into scalable cloud implementations.
- Contribute to architectural decisions that shape Slalom's infrastructure roadmap.
- Create and maintain comprehensive runbooks, SOPs, and technical documentation.
- Mentor Infrastructure Operations engineers and support escalation resolution.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration to align infrastructure with business objectives.
What You Bring:
Core Expertise
- AWS: Strong experience with core services (EC2, S3, API Gateway, Route 53, IAM, AWS Backup, and basic networking/security resources like ENI, subnets, load balancers, VPC, security groups).
- Cost Management: Proficiency in tagging strategies, budgets, CUR analysis, and savings optimizations.
- Automation: Skilled in AWS CLI, PowerShell, Bash, Python, or Go.
- Multi-Cloud Fluency: Hands-on experience in AWS is required; experience in Azure ,GCP or Snowflake is a plus.
- Engineering Practices: Proficient in version control systems (e.g., Git) and collaboration platforms (e.g., Bitbucket, GitHub, Azure DevOps). Experience with pull request workflows, branching, and code reviews is advantageous.
Specialized Knowledge
- Troubleshooting: Ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues across cloud stacks.
- Documentation & Communication: Strong technical writing skills and a collaborative mindset.
- Monitoring Integration: Experience with telemetry platforms is preferred.
What Sets You Apart
- Customer-focused approach to infrastructure support.
- Proactive problem-solving mindset with a focus on operational excellence.
- Experience with rotating on-call responsibilities and incident management.
- Passion for staying current with cloud technologies and best practices.
Why You'll Love this role
- Technical Growth: Work with leading cloud providers including AWS, Azure, GCP, and Snowflake.
- Mentorship Opportunities: Guide and develop Tier I and Tier II engineers.
- Business Impact: Directly contribute to operational efficiency.
- Learning Opportunity: Continuous exposure to cutting-edge technologies and industry best practices through Sla To view the full job description, <a href="https://www.aplitrak.com/?adid=YmJnZW5lcmljLjY2NTI1Ljg3NjlAc2xhbG9tY29tcC5hcGxpdHJhay5jb20">click here</>
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Skills
- AWS
- Google Cloud
- Microsoft Azure
- Snowflake
- Design principles
- Regulatory compliance
- Identity and access management
- Rapid7
- Documentation
- Collaboration
- Route
- Cost management
- Microsoft PowerShell
- Bash
- Python
- Go
- Control systems
- Git
- Atlassian Bitbucket
- GitHub
- DevOps
- Troubleshooting
- Communication skills
- Technical writing
- Problem solving
- Cloud technologies