What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Cloud Engineer position at Koch?
Your Job
Koch Engineered Solutions is hiring a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, build, automate, secure, and operate scalable cloud and hybrid infrastructure. This is a hands-on, engineering-focused role responsible for cloud architecture, Infrastructure as Code, reliability, security, governance, automation, and modernization. The ideal candidate combines deep cloud engineering expertise with familiarity in modern platform engineering practices, supporting reusable patterns, self-service capabilities, CI/CD collaboration, and developer enablement.
This position is located in Wichita, KS. Visa Sponsorship is not available for this role.
What You Will Do
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
As a Koch company, Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is a dynamic network of businesses that work together to create an ecosystem of domain expertise to increase operational efficiency, improve safety, reduce waste, and reduce emissions.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).
Koch Engineered Solutions is hiring a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, build, automate, secure, and operate scalable cloud and hybrid infrastructure. This is a hands-on, engineering-focused role responsible for cloud architecture, Infrastructure as Code, reliability, security, governance, automation, and modernization. The ideal candidate combines deep cloud engineering expertise with familiarity in modern platform engineering practices, supporting reusable patterns, self-service capabilities, CI/CD collaboration, and developer enablement.
This position is located in Wichita, KS. Visa Sponsorship is not available for this role.
What You Will Do
- Design, build, and support secure, scalable, and resilient cloud infrastructure, with AWS as the primary area of focus.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and related automation practices.
- Create reusable cloud patterns for networking, compute, storage, identity, monitoring, backup, and recovery.
- Improve cloud reliability through observability, alerting, incident response, root cause analysis, and operational hardening.
- Partner with security teams to implement IAM, access controls, encryption, network segmentation, logging, and governance guardrails.
- Support cloud cost transparency and optimization through tagging, rightsizing, usage analysis, and lifecycle management.
- Leverage and explore AI-enabled capabilities to improve infrastructure operations, automation, troubleshooting, monitoring, and overall cloud engineering productivity.
- Help modernize legacy infrastructure and enable more automated, repeatable, and cloud-native delivery models.
- Collaborate with application, DevOps, architecture, and infrastructure teams to support delivery while reducing manual effort and operational friction.
- Contribute to platform engineering foundations such as standard templates, reusable deployment patterns, self-service infrastructure concepts, and improved developer experience.
- Proven expertise in IT infrastructure, systems, cloud, DevOps, or platform engineering experience.
- Deep hands-on experience designing, building, and operating cloud environments, preferably AWS.
- Strong experience with Terraform or comparable Infrastructure as Code tooling.
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, IAM, security controls, monitoring, backup, recovery, and hybrid connectivity.
- Experience supporting production environments and troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues.
- Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders and mentor other engineers.
- Experience with Kubernetes, EKS/ECS, Docker, serverless, CI/CD tools, and observability platforms.
- Experience with scripting or automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages.
- Exposure to FinOps, disaster recovery planning, cloud security tooling, policy-as-code, or AI/ML infrastructure needs.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
As a Koch company, Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is a dynamic network of businesses that work together to create an ecosystem of domain expertise to increase operational efficiency, improve safety, reduce waste, and reduce emissions.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).