Senior Cloud & Infra Security Consultant

Senior Cloud & Infra Security Consultant

Location: US Bay Area San Jose, CA

The pay range for this role is $110,000 - $120,000* per annum

Contract $65 hr C2C/ $55 W2

Role Overview: We are seeking a Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer to support our cloud platform initiatives, automation efforts, and operational reliability across AWS and Azure environments. This role blends cloud engineering, infrastructure reliability, automation development, and security-minded platform design. The engineer should be capable of stabilizing cloud workloads, optimizing operational maturity, and building scalable patterns that improve availability and resilience.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Architecture & Platform Engineering

• Design, deploy, and enhance scalable infrastructure services across AWS and Azure.
• Improve posture, configuration hygiene, and guardrail enforcement at the platform level.
• Partner with platform and security teams to create resilient cloud architectures.

Infrastructure Reliability & Operations

• Stabilize cloud infrastructure services by improving uptime, observability, and incident recovery.
• Lead troubleshooting of operational failures, configuration drift, and deployment instability.
• Automate operational workflows to minimize recurring issues and manual intervention.

Automation, Tooling & CI/CD Enablement

• Build automation for cloud provisioning, configuration validation, and remediation workflows.
• Improve CI/CD security and deployment efficiency through pipelines, controls, and tooling.
• Develop reusable infrastructure modules to accelerate engineering velocity.

Systems, Identity & Control Integration

• Integrate cloud identity, logging, telemetry, and monitoring into standardized platform patterns.
• Provide cross-team guidance on secure workload enablement and operational best practices.
• Improve cloud visibility and ensure system state reflects intended configurations.

Cross-Team Enablement & Advisory

• Work closely with platform, detection, IAM, and compliance teams.
• Provide architectural input to application and engineering teams adopting cloud services.
• Share insights related to risk reduction, optimization, and operational scaling.

Required Skills & Experience

• 810+ years of experience in cloud or infrastructure engineering roles.
• Strong proficiency with AWS and/or Azure architecture, services, networking, and IAM concepts.

Hands-on experience:

1. Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, Pulumi, etc.)
2. Automation tooling (Python, PowerShell, Go, etc.)
3. CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, etc.)
4. Proven ability to diagnose and improve reliability issues, scaling constraints, or deployment failures.

Preferred Skills

• Background in reliability engineering, SRE, cloud security, or operational automation.
• Experience with logging, monitoring, and observability platforms.
• Familiarity with multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud architectural design patterns.
• Experience integrating cloud controls with platform enablement workflows.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills

• Background in reliability engineering, SRE, cloud security, or operational automation.
• Experience with logging, monitoring, and observability platforms.
• Familiarity with multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud architectural design patterns.
• Container and Kubernetes Experience (Nice to Have / Optional):
• Operating Kubernetes clusters (EKS/AKS/GKE) or supporting containerized workloads
• Understanding of orchestration fundamentals, cluster lifecycle, and workload identity

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