Senior CloudOps Engineer

The Position:

We are seeking a hands-on Senior CloudOps Engineer to execute our cloud operations strategy. In this critical role, you will lead the technical implementation for our AWS CloudOps strategy, driving the adoption of modern operational practices across the organization. You will be responsible for architecting and implementing highly automated, reliable, and cost-efficient systems that support our production services, R&D initiatives, and corporate functions. The ideal candidate is a seasoned engineer with a deep passion for automation, a strategic mindset for system design, and proven experience mentoring and leading technical projects.

This position is a hybrid role based out of our San Diego or South San Francisco office. We may also be open to remote for the ideal candidate. 

Responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership: Work with CloudOps leadership to craft the roadmap for cloud operations, setting technical standards and best practices. Mentor and guide other engineers on the team, fostering a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Lead the design and implementation of key CloudOps requirements and initiatives. Develop solutions using imperative interfaces such as the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) or Pulumi.
• Continuous Delivery (CD): Architect, build, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to automate application and infrastructure deployments, ensuring fast, safe, and reliable releases.
• Automation & Scalability: Drive automation initiatives across the organization, developing scripts (Python, Bash, etc.) and tooling to eliminate manual tasks, improve system scalability, and streamline operational workflows.
• Reliability & Observability: Implement and manage sophisticated monitoring, logging, and observability platforms (e.g., Amazon CloudWatch, Sumo Logic, Prometheus, Grafana) and lead the strategy for incident response and post-mortems.
• Cloud Financial Management (FinOps): Champion our cloud cost optimization efforts. You will lead the analysis of AWS spend, implement governance policies, and engineer solutions to maximize cost-efficiency without compromising performance.

 

Who You Are:

• 8 years of experience in CloudOps, SRE, or DevOps, with a proven history of technical leadership and project ownership.
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (AWS CDK, Pulumi, TF CDK) and designing complex CI/CD pipelines (AWS CodePipeline, GitLab CI, Jenkins).
• Expert-level Python scripting skills and deep knowledge of managing large-scale AWS Organizations using services like Control Tower, IAM Identity Center, VPC, and EC2.
• Experience with regulatory compliance frameworks, particularly in healthcare (HIPAA, CLIA, FDA).
• Strong skills in observability, FinOps (cloud cost optimization), cloud networking, and security.

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco/Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to the individual’s skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, office location and other geographic considerations, as well as other business and organizational needs. With that said, as required by local law in geographies that require salary range disclosure, Vaco/Highspring notes the salary range for the role is noted in this job posting. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, and can participate in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company’s 401(k) retirement plan.

Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.