Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 13, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 12, 2026.
TriNet is a leading provider of comprehensive human resources solutions for small to midsize businesses (SMBs). We enhance business productivity by enabling our clients to outsource their HR function to one strategic partner and allowing them to focus on operating and growing their core businesses. Our full-service HR solutions include features such as payroll processing, human capital consulting, employment law compliance and employee benefits, including health insurance, retirement plans and workers’ compensation insurance.
TriNet has a nationwide presence and an experienced executive team. Our stock is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker symbol TNET. If you’re passionate about innovation and making an impact on the large SMB market, come join us as we power our clients’ business success with extraordinary HR.
Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that many potential applicants discourage themselves from applying to jobs unless they meet every single requirement. TriNet always strives to hire the most qualified candidate for a particular role, ensuring we deliver outstanding results for our small and medium-size customers. So if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every single qualification in the job description, nobody’s perfect - and we encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.
JOB SUMMARY
Cloud Operations is responsible for maintaining reliability, performance, and security of our multi-cloud infrastructure, enterprise services, and TriNet's customer portal. Key role responsibilities include developing infrastructure enhancements, facilitating POCs, deployments/upgrades, and managing ongoing tasks.
Essential Duties/Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain AWS & OCI infrastructure & managed services
- Strong experience with kubernetes technologies, specifically AWS EKS and OCI OKE
- Experience with policy engines such as Kyverno
- Experience with golden image management for host OS and Containers
- Experience with AWS Org, SCPs and strong IAM foundation
- Strong Linux OS troubleshooting, performance tuning skills & monthly patching
- GitHub, Stash, Artifactory, Confluence/Jira and related technologies
- Strong coding skills (yaml/json, Python, shell, CDK Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Experience with leveraging AWS automation technologies (ie: trigger events/Lamda) to achieve operational efficiency gains.
- Evaluate new technologies in order to achieve business objectives and innovation.
- Create technical documentation as necessary.
- Provide support to compute and storage administration team.
- Collaborate with product owners, developers, and support staff to ensure continuous and reliable delivery of service.
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Self-starter with a strong commitment to success
- Ability to adapt to a fast-paced environment while managing multiple priorities
- A demonstrated commitment to a diverse workplace and “team first” philosophy
Required for All Jobs
- Performs other duties as assigned
- Complies with all policies and standards
QUALIFICATIONS
- Education - Bachelor's Degree - preferred
Work Experience Required/Preferred
- Typically 8+ years - using required skills/qualifications
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Proficiency
- Bachelor’s degree desired; or equivalent education and/or related work experience.
- Strong proficiency in container technologies including Kubernetes, EKS, Nirmata.
- Strong proficiency in AWS services/technologies like VPC, EC2, IAM, S3, MSK, EMR, Sagemaker, MWAA, RDS, ElastiCache
- Experience with configuration management tools (Puppet, Ansible)
- Strong background in hypervisor technologies (VMware, OpenStack/MCP)
- Strong background in Linux operating system administration (RedHat/CentOS, Satellite)
- Experience with Information Security principles, technologies, and best practices
- Experience with change management controls, SOX/HIPAA/PII auditory compliance
Work Environment
- Work in a clean, pleasant, and comfortable office work setting. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable persons with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- This position is 100% in office.
Please Note: TriNet reserves the right to change or modify job duties and assignments at any time. The above job description is not all encompassing. Position functions and qualifications may vary depending on business necessity.
TriNet is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants based on race, religion, color, disability, medical condition, legally protected genetic information, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), age, veteran status or other legally protected characteristics. Any applicant with a mental or physical disability who requires an accommodation during the application process should contact [email protected] to request such an accommodation.