{"id":3344638,"url":"https://alion.io/job/sonatus-senior-cloud-platform-engineer","title":"Senior Cloud Platform Engineer","company":{"id":13046,"name":"Sonatus","domain":"sonatus.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/sonatus","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":95,"open_postings":20,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":86,"computed_at":"2026-10-29T05:49:05Z"}},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Detroit, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":{"min":137000,"max":175000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":175000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":7,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"ArgoCD","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub Actions","optional":false},{"name":"GitLab CI","optional":false},{"name":"GitOps","optional":false},{"name":"Go","optional":false},{"name":"Google GKE","optional":false},{"name":"Helm","optional":false},{"name":"IAM","optional":false},{"name":"Jenkins","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Progressive Delivery","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Quantization","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"FinOps","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-27T16:38:27Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-27","last_verified_at":"2026-10-29T21:55:44Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":0,"flags":["company_stale"],"days_open":1},"description":"At Sonatus, we’re driving the transformation to AI-enabled software-defined vehicles. Traditional automotive software methods can’t keep pace with consumer expectations shaped by the mobile industry-where features evolve rapidly, update seamlessly, and improve continuously. That’s why leading OEMs trust Sonatus to accelerate this shift. Our technology is already in production across more than 9 million vehicles on the road today and rapidly expanding.\nHeadquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, with 250+ employees worldwide, Sonatus combines the agility of a fast-growing company with the scale and impact of an established partner. Backed by strong funding and proven by global deployment, we’re solving some of the most interesting and complex challenges in the industry. Join us and help redefine what’s possible as we shape the future of mobility.\nRole Summary:\nWe are seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to own the cloud infrastructure and delivery pipeline supporting one of our largest OEM programs. This role is based on-site at the customer's engineering facility, embedded alongside their teams. You will build and operate our GCP-based platform using GitOps and infrastructure-as-code, automate the paths that get software from commit to production, and act as the local owner for cloud access, environment provisioning, and day-to-day operational issues. This is a hands-on role for a broad, self-directed engineer who is comfortable being the on-site technical point of contact and working across organizational boundaries to unblock delivery.\nRoles and Responsibilities:\nOwn and evolve our GCP cloud platform for the program - GKE, IAM, Vertex, networking, and supporting services - with a focus on reliability, security, and cost.\nBuild and maintain infrastructure as code in Terraform, treating all environment configuration as reviewed, versioned, and reproducible.\nOperate the platform using GitOps practices (Argo CD, Helm), so that environment state is declarative and every change is traceable to a commit.\nDesign and maintain CI/CD automation that takes services from commit to deployment with minimal manual intervention, including progressive delivery patterns such as blue/green and canary rollouts.\nBuild observability and alerting that gives both Sonatus and the customer a clear view of system health, and lead troubleshooting when things break.\nServe as the on-site owner for cloud access and environment issues - coordinating permissions, provisioning, and workflow questions directly with the customer's IT and platform teams.\nManage the program's AI resources - model access, GPU and accelerator capacity, quotas, and API keys across Vertex and other model services - and track usage and spend so teams get the capacity they need within budget.\nOptimize AI model deployment and serving for latency, throughput, and cost, including model selection, right-sizing, batching, caching, and quantization, and measure the results against agreed benchmarks.\nAutomate recurring operational work and reduce toil, so that developer velocity does not depend on manual intervention.\nPartner with Sonatus engineering teams in California, Ireland, Korea, and India to keep the on-site environment aligned with our broader platform.\nRequirements:\n7+ years of experience building and operating production cloud infrastructure, with a strong DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE background.\nDeep, hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GKE, IAM, VPC/networking, Cloud Build, or equivalent). Experience with AWS or Azure is welcome, but GCP depth is required.\nStrong Terraform skills and a track record of managing real production infrastructure as code.\nPractical experience with GitOps workflows and tooling (Argo CD, Flux, Helm) and a preference for declarative, version-controlled operations.\nSolid Kubernetes and containerization experience - deploying, scaling, securing, and debugging real workloads.\nStrong automation and scripting ability (Python, Go, or Bash) and a bias toward eliminating manual steps.\nExperience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar).\nComfort operating independently in a customer environment: strong communication, sound judgment on what to escalate, and the credibility to work directly with a partner organization's engineering and IT teams.\nExperience with ML or AI workloads running on cloud infrastructure.\nNice to have:\nExperience working embedded at, or delivering into, a large enterprise or automotive customer environment.\nFamiliarity with cloud cost management and FinOps practices.\nSecurity and compliance experience in a regulated or enterprise setting.\nBenefits & Perks Offered:\nHealth care plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)\nFlexible and Dependent Care Expense program\nRetirement plan (401k)\nLife Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)\nUnlimited paid time off per year, 14+ paid holidays\nWellness benefit allowance\nPhone & Internet reimbursement\nComputer Accessory Allowance\nThe posted salary range is a general guideline and represents a good faith estimate of what Sonatus (\"Company\") could reasonably expect to pay for a base salary for this position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, geographic location and external market pay for comparable jobs. The Company reserves the right to modify this range in the future, as needed, as market conditions change.\nBase Salary Pay Range\n$137,000—$175,000 USD","description_format":"text","description_chars":5628,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["401k plan","Internet reimbursement","Life insurance","Retirement plans"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Edge AI","Automotive Software"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-27T16:48:47Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 26 · green card filings: 4","filings_12m":26,"filings_prev_12m":13,"green_card_filings_12m":4,"median_offered_wage_usd":170167,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-29T16:27:21+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":13}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":86,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-29T05:49:05Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":175000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/sonatus-senior-cloud-platform-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/sonatus-senior-cloud-platform-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-30T00:56:25Z","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":1229,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-31T00:00:00Z"}},"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":13046},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=13046"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fsonatus-senior-cloud-platform-engineer"},{"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%2Fsonatus-senior-cloud-platform-engineer"},{"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%2Fsonatus-senior-cloud-platform-engineer"},{"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/sonatus-senior-cloud-platform-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsonatus-senior-cloud-platform-engineer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3344638}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"sonatus.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3344638},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}