Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer – Observability Platform Location: Westlake, TX or Merrimack, NH Duration: Contract The Role Do you want to work on leading-edge cloud technologies that are transforming how developers build and scale applications? As a Senior Cloud Engineer in the Observability Platform team, you will work within a diverse group of passionate technologists who believe in the power of innovation and collaboration. We believe small, empowered, self-motivated teams can achieve outstanding results. You’ll be contributing to the Foundation & Pipelines squad, which supports the build, deployment, and operation of a new OpenTelemetry (OTEL) observability platform focused on metrics and traces. This role will drive platform enhancements including security, resiliency, and new feature development. Key Responsibilities • Design, build, and support scalable, resilient applications and systems in the cloud. • Contribute to observability platform initiatives for metrics, logging, and tracing. • Develop APIs and automation in Python (or Go). • Build and deploy applications in AWS (EC2, EKS, Lambda, etc.). • Deploy and manage workloads in Kubernetes environments. • Implement CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins. • Troubleshoot Linux-based distributed systems and networking issues. • Collaborate in paired programming and Agile practices with team members. Required Skills & Experience • 5+ years of experience in engineering and supporting distributed, multi-tiered systems at scale. • Strong programming experience in Python (or Go). • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerization (Docker). • Strong AWS experience (EC2, EKS, Lambda, Step Functions). • Solid CI/CD experience (Jenkins or similar). • Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation). • Experience troubleshooting Linux systems and networking (DNS, load balancers, routers). Nice-to-Have Skills • Experience with observability tools: Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, Fluentd, FluentBit, etc. • UI development (React, Node.js). • AWS certification. • Experience delivering secure, resilient platforms at enterprise scale. 👉 This role is not a DevOps Engineer position. Candidates focused only on pipelines, infra automation, or operations without strong coding experience will not be considered.