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Cloud Engineer

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Location
Seattle, WA
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Job overview

The Cloud Engineer designs and supports enterprise cloud environments, primarily on AWS, while contributing to AWS and Azure initiatives. The role leads modernization, migration, security, cost optimization, networking, and AI architecture work. It also serves as a technical authority, guiding design reviews and reusable engineering standards across teams and influencing enterprise technology decisions.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

AWSMicrosoft AzureKubernetesContainerized PlatformsCloud NetworkingIdentity ManagementFederationAccess ControlCloud Security FrameworksInfrastructure as CodeTerraformCloudFormationEnterprise MiddlewareAPI PlatformsIntegration PlatformsFinOpsCloud Cost ManagementObservabilityMonitoringLoggingOperational ExcellenceWritten CommunicationVerbal CommunicationExecutive CommunicationPresentation SkillsStrategic ThinkingTechnical LeadershipStakeholder Engagement

Qualifications

10+ Years Cloud Experience7+ Years AWS Experience

Full job description

Job Description

  • Design, implement, and support scalable, resilient, and secure cloud solutions primarily on AWS.
  • Contribute to multi-cloud architecture initiatives involving AWS and Azure platforms.
  • Develop cloud standards, reference architectures, and engineering best practices.
  • Lead cloud modernization, migration, and platform transformation initiatives.
  • Design highly available, fault-tolerant, and disaster-resilient cloud architectures.
  • Partner with cybersecurity teams to strengthen cloud security posture.
  • Design and implement cloud security controls aligned with enterprise security requirements.
  • Partner with vulnerability management teams to identify and remediate cloud security risks.
  • Support Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) initiatives and continuous compliance monitoring.
  • Drive cloud financial governance and optimization initiatives.
  • Develop cloud cost visibility, accountability, and forecasting capabilities.
  • Identify opportunities for rightsizing, automation, reserved capacity planning, and consumption optimization.
  • Partner with business and technology stakeholders to align cloud spend with business outcomes.
  • Support executive reporting on cloud consumption, utilization, and optimization initiatives.
  • Design and support complex enterprise cloud networking solutions.
  • Implement AI-enabled cloud solutions leveraging Amazon Bedrock and related AWS AI services.
  • Evaluate emerging AI technologies and identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency and business capabilities.
  • Collaborate with development teams to establish secure and scalable AI architectures.
  • Design governance and security controls for AI workloads deployed within cloud environments.
  • Serve as an enterprise technical authority for cloud engineering, providing technical direction across engineering, architecture, cybersecurity, application, and operations teams.
  • Lead technical design reviews for complex, high-risk, and business-critical cloud solutions.
  • Establish and govern reusable cloud engineering standards, patterns, reference implementations, and architectural decision records.
  • Resolve complex technical challenges spanning multiple platforms, teams, and business domains.
  • Influence enterprise technology decisions without relying on direct reporting authority.

Skills and Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise cloud environments.
  • 7+ years of hands-on AWS experience in enterprise-scale environments.
  • Experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services and architectures.
  • Advanced experience with Kubernetes and containerized platforms.
  • Deep understanding of cloud networking concepts and architectures.
  • Strong knowledge of authentication, identity management, federation, and access control technologies.
  • Experience implementing cloud security frameworks and controls.
  • Experience with cloud automation and Infrastructure-as-Code technologies such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar platforms.
  • Experience supporting enterprise middleware, API, and integration platforms.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud cost management and FinOps practices.
  • Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, logging, and operational excellence principles.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
  • Executive communication and presentation skills
  • Strategic thinking and technical leadership
  • Cross-functional stakeholder engagement

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].

How this job compares

Set against the 4,290 open Cloud Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Washington median$127–215K/yr134 salary ranges
  • US median$58–71/hr182 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 155 open Cloud Engineer jobs in Washington and 4,290 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Washington
Experience
This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Cloud Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 3,695 postings).
Education
1,889 of the 4,290 open Cloud Engineer jobs (44%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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