Cloud Engineer

Paramount; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 49,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Paramount, based in Lansing, MI, seeks a Cloud Engineer to help pay down years of technical debt while delivering a full-time role with a remote-friendly policy. The position offers $49,000–$70,000 annually and growth through a structured plan to grow your Consul expertise.

As part of our impact-driven tech team, you will optimize OpenShift, improve test automation, and communicate tradeoffs with product teams to keep timelines realistic.

Qualifications

• Self-awareness to know which problems are yours to solve.
• Storytelling instincts to turn data into a decision.
• Proven follow-through, measured in shipped things.
• Junior fluency in Problem Solving, with Communication on your roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Apply Communication and DNS Management to solve quietly-relentless engineering challenges.
• Negotiate Communication tradeoffs with product when Paramount timelines and reality collide.
• Profile Go memory use and chase down the leaks crashing Lansing nodes.
• Decode the undocumented Problem Solving service nobody at Paramount remembers writing.
• Scale Paramount's OpenShift services from Lansing pilot to MI-wide rollout.
• Enhance test automation frameworks to increase release confidence.
• Carry a steady-handed Incident Response feature through code freeze without breaking Paramount stability.

Skills

Self-awareness

Storytelling

Follow-through

Problem Solving

Tools

OpenShift

Consul

DNS Management

Go profiling

Job description

The Cloud Engineer we hire will help Paramount pay down years of technical debt without anyone calling it a rewrite, using Communication sparingly and well. For a remote-native professional with 1+ years behind them, this full-time Cloud Engineer job delivers $49,000 - $70,000 and meaningful growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Apply Communication and DNS Management to solve quietly-relentless engineering challenges
• Negotiate Communication tradeoffs with product when Paramount timelines and reality collide
• Profile Go memory use and chase down the leaks crashing Lansing nodes
• Decode the undocumented Problem Solving service nobody at Paramount remembers writing
• Scale Paramount's OpenShift services from Lansing pilot to MI-wide rollout
• Enhance test automation frameworks to increase release confidence
• Carry a steady-handed Incident Response feature through code freeze without breaking Paramount stability

What You'll Bring

• The self-awareness to know which problems are yours to solve
• Storytelling instincts that turn data into a decision
• Proven follow-through, measured in shipped things rather than good intentions
• Junior fluency in Problem Solving, with Communication on your roadmap

Paramount grew from a Lansing kitchen table into an impact-driven technology company that Lansing, MI now genuinely depends on. Honest feedback is a gift here, and we try to wrap it kindly before we hand it over.

This full-time role pays $49,000 - $70,000 and includes flexible scheduling plus a structured plan to grow your Consul expertise.

Candidate outreach for this technology opening is happening as we speak.