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Job Title: Senior Cloud Systems Engineer – AWS Lead Location: Remote (U.S. Based) or Hybrid from San Diego, CA Compensation: $140,000–$160,000 base + 15% annual bonus potential Work Authorization: U.S. Citizens or Green Card holders only Employment Type: Full-Time, Direct Hire Travel: Up to 5% (primarily to company HQ in San Diego, up to 1x/quarter) Work Hours: 8AM–5PM Pacific Time (Required) On-Call Rotation: Once every 5 weeks (PagerDuty; $60/month reimbursement) About the Role We're looking for a Senior Cloud Systems Engineer with deep expertise in AWS to join a collaborative, highly technical infrastructure team supporting mission-critical enterprise systems. You’ll play a lead role in cloud infrastructure automation, cost optimization, and solution architecture, while mentoring developers and engineers on best practices. This role is well-suited for someone with strong ownership, cloud security know-how, and a desire to simplify and modernize infrastructure at scale. You'll partner with DevOps, Security, and Architecture teams to streamline deployments and drive cloud transformation. Key Responsibilities • Lead design, automation, and implementation of AWS cloud infrastructure using IaC (Terraform or CloudFormation) • Drive cloud strategy, architecture planning, and technical roadmap execution • Develop, maintain, and scale secure, compliant, cost-optimized infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments • Support cloud governance initiatives, tooling, and best practice documentation • Act as a thought leader within the infrastructure team and provide mentorship to peers and developers • Collaborate with security, risk, and compliance to ensure architecture meets audit, regulatory, and internal policy standards • Translate business and technical requirements into scalable cloud architecture Required Skills & Experience • 7–10 years of cloud engineering experience, primarily with AWS • Advanced expertise in VPC, DataSync, EC2, Lambda, CloudFormation or Terraform • Experience with data migration and application modernization • Strong background in Linux administration, with working knowledge of Windows systems • Familiar with routing, firewalls, load balancing, and network architecture • Comfortable working cross-functionally and presenting to both executive stakeholders and technical teams • Skilled in Jira, Confluence, and collaboration in agile/hybrid development environments • Demonstrated success in infrastructure cost optimization, security hardening, and process automation Nice to Have • AWS Certifications (Solutions Architect, SysOps Admin, or DevOps Engineer) • Experience with GCP or Azure, and multi-cloud migration projects • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field • Experience integrating SaaS and on-prem systems with Azure Active Directory, SSO/MFA What You’ll Gain • Strategic influence over a modern cloud transformation initiative • The opportunity to step into a Principal Engineer–level track in the future • Work-life flexibility with a remote-first team and Pacific-based hours • A collaborative team of SMEs, engineers, and business partners • Competitive base salary, strong bonus potential, and full benefits Interested? This is a rare opportunity to lead enterprise-scale cloud strategy while staying hands-on with implementation. If you’re passionate about automation, scalable infrastructure, and being part of a high-trust, low-ego team, we want to hear from you. #TECH #Hybrid

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