Chief Cloud Platform Engineer (Remote)

Jobgether; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work arrangement

Competitive compensation (base salary)

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Vice President, Cloud Platform Engineer in the United States to lead a skilled Cloud Platform Engineering team. You will design, implement, and scale automated infrastructure on AWS, using Terraform and IaC best practices, while guiding a team of engineers and mentoring peers.

The role emphasizes building CI/CD pipelines with ArgoCD/FluxCD, Kubernetes with Istio/Linkerd, and advanced cloud-native solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years in industry with AVP-level or equivalent external experience preferred.
• 10–15 years in cloud automation and infrastructure development preferred.
• 8+ years managing AWS security and networking configurations.
• Extensive hands-on Terraform and IaC expertise.
• 6+ years building CI/CD pipelines and GitOps with ArgoCD/FluxCD.
• Strong Kubernetes experience and service mesh (Istio/Linkerd).
• Experience with Karpenter or similar autoscaling tools.
• 6+ years in programming/scripting (Python, Shell).
• Deep knowledge of AWS services (EKS, EC2, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM).

Responsibilities

• Guide engineers as senior contributor and mentor within Cloud Platform Engineering.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated infrastructure on AWS using Terraform.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, FluxCD.
• Automate deployments across monolithic, stateless, and serverless architectures.
• Design cloud architectures aligned with AWS Well-Architected Framework and security standards.
• Lead infrastructure-as-code adoption across products at different maturity levels.
• Manage AWS security, IAM, policies, SGs, NACLs, and VPCs.
• Develop scalable cloud-native solutions using Kubernetes, Istio, Linkerd, Karpenter.
• Support multi-customer environments with reliable, scalable solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders on design decisions and implementation strategies.
• Communicate progress and decisions to leadership; enforce design standards and templates.
• Take on additional responsibilities to support team and objectives.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Terraform

IaC

Kubernetes

Istio/Linkerd

Karpenter

AWS security & networking

CI/CD pipelines

GitOps (ArgoCD, FluxCD)

Python/Shell scripting

Leadership & mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Terraform

ArgoCD

FluxCD

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Vice President, Cloud Platform Engineer in the United States to lead a skilled Cloud Platform Engineering team. You will design, implement, and scale automated infrastructure on AWS, using Terraform and IaC best practices, while guiding a team of engineers and mentoring peers.

The role emphasizes building CI/CD pipelines with ArgoCD/FluxCD, Kubernetes with Istio/Linkerd, and advanced cloud-native solutions.