Cloud Engineer

Energy Innovation Corp; Charleston (SC); On-site; USD 76,000 - 112,000; Full time

Job summary

Manufacturing Excellence Inc in Charleston, SC is seeking a sharp Cloud Engineer with Azure experience to help scale our platform. This role offers technology ownership and mentorship within a no-ego team.

You will build internal tooling to boost developer productivity, defend Kubernetes architecture, and push a rewrite of critical components while keeping resilience and backward compatibility. This Charleston-based on-site role offers competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• Fluency across Kubernetes, with strong opinions on both Kubernetes and delegation.
• Hands-on Bash scripting with Python as a close second.
• A portfolio or work samples that demonstrate technology expertise.

Responsibilities

• Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity.
• Drive the Kubernetes incident postmortem to prevent outages.
• Stress-test resilience systems and harden them where they fail.
• Sketch the Kubernetes architecture, defend it in review, then implement it.
• Keep resilience schemas backward-compatible to avoid breaking upgrades.
• Negotiate RabbitMQ tradeoffs with product when timelines collide.
• Ship the Packer rewrite to reduce technical debt.

Skills

Kubernetes

Azure

Bash scripting

Python

Portfolio samples

Tools

RabbitMQ

Packer

Job description

Manufacturing Excellence Inc is on a mission to scale, and a sharp Cloud Engineer with 3 of Microsoft Azure experience is exactly who we need. What you're signing up for is $76,000 - $112,000, a temporary cadence, technology ownership, and a Manufacturing Excellence Inc team that rewards nerve.

Key Responsibilities

• Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity
• Drive the Kubernetes incident postmortem that stops the Charleston outage from recurring
• Stress-test Resilience systems until they bend, then harden where they cracked
• Sketch the Kubernetes architecture, defend it in review, then build the thing
• Keep Resilience schemas backward-compatible so Manufacturing Excellence Inc never forces a breaking upgrade
• Negotiate RabbitMQ tradeoffs with product when Manufacturing Excellence Inc timelines and reality collide
• Ship the Packer heads-down-and-happy rewrite that pays down years of Manufacturing Excellence Inc technical debt

What You'll Bring

• Strong rapport-building skills and a genuinely positive presence
• Fluency across Delegation and Kubernetes, with strong opinions on both
• Hands-on command of Bash Scripting, with Python as a close second
• The humility to revise strong opinions when the data argues back
• A portfolio or work samples that demonstrate your technology expertise

Manufacturing Excellence Inc is a no-ego team based in Charleston, SC, building products that customers rely on every day. Mentorship goes both ways at Manufacturing Excellence Inc, and seniority never means having all the answers.

Our offer wraps $76,000 - $112,000 around mentorship, real benefits, and the kind of Charleston, SC flexibility most technology roles only promise.

Freshly bumped to active, the Charleston, SC role takes applicants today.