{"id":2547712,"url":"https://alion.io/job/raas-infotek-senior-cloud-engineer-2","title":"Senior Cloud Engineer","company":{"id":689286,"name":"Raas Infotek","domain":"raasinfotek.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/raasinfotek","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SmartRecruiters","truth_index":null},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"contractor","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"inferred","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":83000,"max_usd":197000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_seniority_cell","sample_n":2792},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Amazon CloudWatch","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon EKS","optional":false},{"name":"ArgoCD","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Azure AKS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure DevOps","optional":false},{"name":"Bicep","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"CloudFormation","optional":false},{"name":"Datadog","optional":false},{"name":"DNS","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"FinOps","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"GDPR","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub Actions","optional":false},{"name":"GitLab CI","optional":false},{"name":"Go","optional":false},{"name":"Google GKE","optional":false},{"name":"Grafana","optional":false},{"name":"HIPAA","optional":false},{"name":"IAM","optional":false},{"name":"ISO 27001","optional":false},{"name":"Jenkins","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"OpenTelemetry","optional":false},{"name":"PCI DSS","optional":false},{"name":"Prometheus","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Service Mesh","optional":false},{"name":"SOC 2","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"VPN","optional":false},{"name":"Zero Trust","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-14T13:58:39Z","employer_posted_date":null,"last_verified_at":"2026-10-14T13:58:39Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Senior Cloud Engineer: Job Description\n\nEmployment Type: Contract W2 only\nExperience: 10+ years in IT, with at least 5+ years in cloud engineering\nAbout the RoleWe are looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure. You will be a technical leader on the team, setting standards for architecture and automation, mentoring engineers, and partnering with development, security, and operations teams to deliver reliable platforms at scale.\nKey ResponsibilitiesArchitecture and Design\nDesign and implement highly available, fault-tolerant, multi-region cloud architectures on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform\nLead cloud migration and modernization initiatives, including lift-and-shift, re-platforming, and re-architecting to cloud-native services\nDefine reference architectures, landing zones, and best practices for the organization\nEvaluate new cloud services and recommend adoption based on technical and business fit\nAutomation and Infrastructure as Code\nBuild and maintain infrastructure using Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, or Pulumi\nDevelop and improve CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD)\nAutomate provisioning, configuration, patching, and operational tasks using Python, Bash, or PowerShell\nContainers and Platform Engineering\nDesign, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS, GKE) and containerized workloads\nImplement service mesh, ingress, autoscaling, and workload-optimization strategies\nSupport developer self-service through internal platforms and golden paths\nSecurity and Compliance\nImplement cloud security best practices: IAM, network segmentation, encryption, secrets management, and zero-trust principles\nPartner with security teams on vulnerability management, audits, and compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR as applicable)\nEnforce policy-as-code and guardrails (OPA, AWS Config, Azure Policy)\nReliability and Operations\nOwn observability: monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, ELK, OpenTelemetry)\nDefine SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets; drive incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems\nDesign and test disaster recovery and backup strategies\nParticipate in on-call rotation for critical production systems\nCost Optimization (FinOps)\nMonitor and optimize cloud spend through right-sizing, reserved capacity, and savings plans\nImplement tagging, budgeting, and cost-visibility practices\nLeadership and Collaboration\nMentor junior and mid-level engineers; conduct design and code reviews\nCollaborate with product, engineering, and security stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions\nProduce clear documentation, runbooks, and architecture decision records (ADRs)\nRequired Qualifications10+ years of overall IT experience, including 5+ years hands-on with public cloud platforms\nDeep expertise in at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform); working knowledge of a second\nStrong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)\nHands-on experience with Kubernetes and Docker in production\nSolid understanding of networking: VPC/VNet design, DNS, load balancing, VPN, Direct Connect/ExpressRoute, firewalls\nProficiency in at least one scripting or programming language (Python, Go, or Bash)\nExperience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines\nStrong knowledge of IAM, security best practices, and compliance frameworks\nExperience with monitoring and observability tooling\nProven track record of leading complex cloud projects end to end\nExcellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders","description_format":"text","description_chars":3727,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["IT Consulting & Digital Transformation","IT Staffing & Staff Augmentation"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-14T16:52:45Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 42","filings_12m":42,"filings_prev_12m":53,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":112500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-03T21:08:04+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":39}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":29,"reasons":["seen:0","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-15T00:24:24Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/raas-infotek-senior-cloud-engineer-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/raas-infotek-senior-cloud-engineer-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-15T00:24:24Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":497,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-16T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":689286},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=689286"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fraas-infotek-senior-cloud-engineer-2"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fraas-infotek-senior-cloud-engineer-2"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fraas-infotek-senior-cloud-engineer-2"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/raas-infotek-senior-cloud-engineer-2\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fraas-infotek-senior-cloud-engineer-2"}]}