Senior Cloud Engineer, Handshake

• Deep hands-on experience with GCP (strongly preferred), AWS, or Azure — you've run production workloads at scale and know where the bodies are buried
• Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform or experience with Crossplane or similar policy-driven IaC
• Fluency with modern CI/CD tooling — Buildkite, GitHub Actions, or similar — and a strong GitOps mindset with tools like ArgoCD or Flux
• Experience designing container-based and Kubernetes-native architectures
• A genuine curiosity about applying AI and automation to infrastructure problems — whether that's smarter alerting, self-healing systems, or LLM-assisted runbooks
• Strong communication skills — you can explain a complex architectural decision to an engineer and an executive alike
• A collaborative spirit and a bias toward documentation, standards, and shared ownership

Desirable

• As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you'll be at the center of how we design, deploy, and evolve our cloud infrastructure
• You'll work closely with engineering, platform, and security teams to define patterns that scale — and make it genuinely easy for developers to do the right thing
• You'll codify best practices, champion automation, and bring a modern, opinionated perspective on how cloud-native infrastructure should work
• This isn't a "keep the lights on" role
• You'll be architecting systems, writing the playbooks others follow, and pushing us toward a more intelligent, automated infrastructure future
• Architect and manage scalable, reliable cloud infrastructure across our production and development environments
• Define and enforce best practices for cloud deployments, making it easy for teams to ship safely and confidently
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (we use Buildkite) and GitOps workflows with ArgoCD to streamline how code gets from commit to production
• Own and evolve our Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform, Crossplane, or similar IaC tooling
• Drive platform improvements that reduce toil and increase developer velocity
• Explore and implement AI-driven approaches to infrastructure automation, observability, and incident response
• Partner with engineering teams to design systems that are cloud-native from the ground up
• Mentor engineers across the organization on cloud best practices and patterns