Description:
Staff Cloud Engineer
This role is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing cloud infrastructure with a focus on automation, security, and cost optimization. The Staff Cloud Engineer serves as a technical leader, driving adoption of cloud strategies and engineering best practices across AWS and GCP environments. This position contributes to building scalable, resilient, and high-performing cloud solutions, including hybrid infrastructures supporting critical live and global event operations. The role also emphasizes continuous improvement, innovation, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver efficient and reliable cloud services.
Location & Work Type
Location: New York, NY
Work Type: Hybrid
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and implement cloud solutions on AWS and GCP platforms, including networking, security, storage, compute, and authentication components
- Serve as project execution leader by estimating effort, breaking down tasks, and mentoring junior engineers to deliver projects on time and within budget
- Collaborate with architecture leaders to design cloud solutions addressing business needs across cloud and hybrid environments
- Automate cloud deployments and infrastructure provisioning using tools such as Terraform, Terragrunt, Python, and Ansible
- Ensure cloud security through account management, access controls, firewalls, and threat detection mechanisms
- Monitor infrastructure performance and cost efficiency, implementing optimizations and creating dashboards and alerts
- Troubleshoot and resolve cloud infrastructure and application issues, performing root cause analysis
- Lead post-incident reviews and implement corrective actions
- Provide thought leadership on cloud technologies, infrastructure as code, and industry best practices
- Develop proof of concepts (POCs) to evaluate new technologies and architectural patterns
- Participate in architecture reviews, project kickoffs, and post-mortem discussions
- Drive continuous improvement in processes, tools, and cloud strategies
Qualifications
Required:
- Deep understanding of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) including security, networking, IAM, authentication protocols, account management and application services
- Proven experience solving capacity challenges by utilizing dynamic scaling using containerization and/or serverless approaches, ensuring high availability and reliability with redundancy, and leveraging services like Direct Connect and/or AWS Outposts for hybrid connectivity
- Understand and implement various infrastructure architecture models (like centralized vs distributed) to define how resources, data, and processes are organized and managed within an organization's IT infrastructure - building and maintaining IT systems that are scalable, reliable, and secure
- Mastery of AWS Well Architected Framework principles
- Expert with troubleshooting and root cause analysis
- Ability to analyze systems with a high degree of detail and impact awareness
- Hands-on experience with at least 2 programming languages (Python, Java, C++, etc.) and experience writing infrastructure as code using Terragrunt and/or Terraform; our hands-on technical test requires both Python and Terraform
- Familiarity with DevOps principles
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Effective communication skills, both verbal and written
- Proven experience with building deployment pipelines and enabling self-service
- Strong teamwork and willingness to collaborate with others
- Comfortable working with engineers to introduce new technologies and resolve technical challenges
Preferred (Optional):
- BS or equivalent
- AWS Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps, SysAdmin, Networking, and/or Security certifications
- Google Cloud Platform and/or Azure Cloud knowledge
- Experience in the Media & Entertainment field
- Other certifications (CCIP, CCIE, Terraform, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, etc.)