# Lead Cloud Engineer

The Company Herd-i builds computer vision and analytics systems for the dairy industry. Its platform processes video and sensor data to deliver insights into animal health, welfare and farm performance. The work brings together edge computing, machine learning and cloud systems to solve practical problems on farms. This is a growing business where you stay close to the technology and have a direct influence on how the platform develops. Walker Smith is partnering exclusively with Herd-i on this search. The Role Herd-i is seeking a hands-on Lead Cloud Engineer to lead a small engineering team and help build the next generation of its platform. You’ll combine technical leadership with software development, working across Python services, AWS infrastructure, data systems and React applications. You’ll guide technical decisions, mentor engineers and take responsibility for the quality and delivery of the team’s work, while working closely with the ML, IoT and operations teams to deliver reliable systems for a growing business. Agentic AI tools such as Claude Code are central to how the team works, and you’ll use them actively and help the team apply them well. What You’ll Be Doing Lead

- **Id**: 3948859
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/walker-smith-lead-cloud-engineer>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T00:33:20Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T00:33:20Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2899
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Recruiting & Staffing

## Company

- **Id**: 4423671
- **Name**: Walker Smith
- **Domain**: walkersmith.co.nz
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/walkersmith>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Manatal

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Computer Vision** — Optional: no
- **Django** — Optional: no
- **Flask** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Streamlit** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Team size min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T00:33:20Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T02:13:35Z

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