Advanced Cloud Engineer

Invesco; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Hybrid work schedule

401K matching

Health & wellbeing benefits

Parental Leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Invesco in Atlanta, GA is seeking a dynamic Cloud Engineer to develop and operate our cloud platforms. You will build infrastructure as code, design secure foundations on AWS, and mentor teammates across DevOps practices.

Join a collaborative, multi-cloud environment emphasizing security, compliance, and scalable architecture. The role requires hands-on experience with Terraform, Python, and CI/CD tools, and offers a hybrid workplace with strong benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop infrastructure as code to automate provisioning and shift security left.
• Collaborate with developers and platform teams to gather requirements and prioritize features.
• Create, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog aligned with customer needs.
• Monitor infrastructure performance, user feedback, and key metrics to drive improvements.
• Design a secure Cloud Foundation and reusable templates to enable faster cloud adoption.
• Document cloud compute platform comprehensively and maintain knowledge transfer to team members.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders, including developers.
• Review and design solutions that satisfy customer requirements and ensure security/compliance.

Skills

Agile methodologies

DevOps

Problem-solving

Cloud architecture

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Bitbucket Pipelines

Python

AWS

EKS

EC2

S3

Job description

About Invesco

As one of the world’s leading independent global investment firms, Invesco is dedicated to rethinking possibilities for our clients. By delivering the combined power of our distinctive investment management capabilities, we provide a wide range of investment strategies and vehicles to our clients around the world. If you're looking for challenging work, intelligent colleagues, and exposure across a global footprint, come explore your potential at Invesco.

About Invesco

As one of the world’s leading independent global investment firms, Invesco is dedicated to rethinking possibilities for our clients. By delivering the combined power of our distinctive investment management capabilities, we provide a wide range of investment strategies and vehicles to our clients around the world. If you're looking for challenging work, intelligent colleagues, and exposure across a global footprint, come explore your potential at Invesco.

What’s in it for you?

Our people are at the very core of our success. Invesco employees get more out of life through our comprehensive compensation and benefit offerings including:

• Flexible paid time off
• Hybrid work schedule
• 401(K) matching of 100% up to the first 6% with a discretionary supplemental contribution
• Health & wellbeing benefits
• Parental Leave benefits
• Employee stock purchase plan

Job Description

About the Role:

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Cloud Engineer to join our team and drive the development and stability of our cloud platforms.

Responsibilities of the Role:

• DevelopInfrastructure as Code to automate infrastructureprovisioning,shifting security andcompliance left.
• Stakeholder Collaboration:Work closely with stakeholders, including developers and platform teams to gather requirements and prioritize features.
• Backlog Management:Create, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring alignment with customer needs.
• Monitoring:Monitor infrastructure performance, user feedback, and key metrics to drive continuous improvement and innovation.
• Design a secure Cloud Foundation, repeatable cloud patterns, templates, and/or accelerators to enable faster adoption of cloud services.
• Documentation:Ensure comprehensive documentation of cloud compute platform.
• Provide technical mentoring and knowledge transfer to otherTechnologyresources.
• Build a strong relationship and rapport with key stakeholders, includingdevelopers.
• Architecture & Design:Reviewing and Designing solutions that satisfy customer requirements. Recognize patterns and build reuseable Modules to be consumed to speed delivery. Ensure that modules we build and support meet our security and compliance standards provides flexibility and integration with current and future technology standards
• Cloud Deployment:Designing, deploying, and managing secure, scalable, and high-performance infrastructures within AWS focusing on cloud-native applications.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC):Utilizing automated tools (IaC) rather than manual configuration to deploy, manage, and "shift-left" security, embedding guardrails and compliance directly into templates.
• Security Controls:Implementing Identity and Access Management (IAM), encryption, network security controls, and configuring security measures for data in hybrid/public environments.
• Compliance & Risk:Enforcing compliance, conducting vulnerability management, and performing penetration testing to protect digital assets.
• Optimization:Optimizing performance and managing cloud costs through efficient infrastructure design.
• System Administration:Planning and administering operating system capabilities and maintaining cloud infrastructure.
• Troubleshooting:Developing and debugging software programs for enhancements, troubleshooting, and patching systems.
• Automation:Using scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash) to automate tasks and improve infrastructure resilience.

Requirements of the Role:

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in AWS cloud technologies and architecture.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure cloud technologies and architecture is preferred but not required, supporting the organization’s expansion to a multi-cloud environment.
• 4+ years experience infrastructure engineering.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• Passionate about identifying and solving problems for customers and constantly improving customer experience.Strong analytical and critical thinking skills area must.
• The ability to collaborate in a distributed team environment is critical, as well as leading cross-functional meetings to efficiently drive desirable outcomes.
• Expertise and understanding of Agile and DevOps operating model.
• Experience in transforming legacy applications to cloud native architectures.
• Skills:Good understanding of cloud solutions, architecture concepts, automation technologies, and market trends. Proficiency in agile methodologies and tools.
• Communication:Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Problem-Solving:Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
• Hands-on experience and proficiency with Terraform Infrastructure as Code
• Experience with Bitbucket Pipelines or similar CI/CD toolchain
• Proficient in Python
• Knowledge in Ansible configuration management (strongly preferred)
• Working knowledge of AWS services such as EC2,EKS,ALB/ELB, Security Groups,Firewall Manager,WAF,S3, Lambda, IAM.
• Familiarity with comparable Microsoft Azure services, governance, security, and infrastructure automation is a plus.
• Works on assignments of moderate scope and complexity where initiative and independent judgment is required to search out appropriate courses of action
• Uses concepts and abilities of the skill and the Firm’s internal policies and procedures to complete assignments and solve problems
• Makes decisions on routine matters where established policies, procedures and guidelines are available.
• Impacts quality of own work and the work of others on the Team.
• Technical Leadership: Provide hands-on technicalexpertisein designing, implementing, andoptimizingAWSinfrastructuresolutions.

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Worker Type

Employee

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Workplace Model

Pursuant to Invesco’s Workplace Policy, employees are expected to comply with the firm’s most current workplace model, which as of October 1, 2025, includes spending at least four full days each week working in an Invesco office. This reflects our belief that spending time together in the office helps us build stronger relationships, collaborate more easily, and support each other’s growth and development.

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The job holder may be required to perform other duties as deemed appropriate by their manager from time to time.

Invesco's culture of inclusivity and its commitment to diversity in the workplace are demonstrated through our people practices. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, age, or veteran status. Our equal opportunity employment efforts comply with all applicable U.S. state and federal laws governing non-discrimination in employment.