Cloud Engineer

Energy Innovation Corp; Virginia Beach (VA); On-site; USD 71,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits

Mentor support

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Nissan in Virginia Beach, VA seeks a Cloud Engineer who can switch between negotiation and Terraform while maintaining composure. Expect 3 years of experience and focus on Disaster Recovery, with on-site duties in Virginia Beach, growth opportunities, mentor support, and full benefits.

The role targets shipping Kafka-based resilience improvements, managing Nginx across environments, and ensuring backward-compatible Service Mesh schemas, within a growth-oriented team in Virginia Beach.

Qualifications

• 3 years of relevant Cloud/SRE experience.
• Disaster Recovery experience.
• Clear written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Reproduce the service-minded bug from the Virginia Beach field report, then make it impossible again.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents across Apache Kafka-based applications.
• Ship the Apache Kafka high-trust rewrite that pays down years of Nissan technical debt.
• Wrangle Nginx config across environments so Virginia Beach staging mirrors production.
• Break large technology initiatives into Nginx increments Virginia Beach can deliver.
• Keep Service Mesh schemas backward-compatible so Nissan never forces a breaking upgrade.

Skills

Communication

Team collaboration

Virginia Beach market knowledge

Tools

Terraform

Apache Kafka

Nginx

Job description

Nissan needs a Cloud Engineer in Virginia Beach, VA who can context-switch between Negotiation and Terraform without losing the plot or their patience. The shape of it is simple — bring 3 years and Disaster Recovery, take home $71,000 - $110,000, and grow into whatever Nissan builds next.

Key Responsibilities

• Reproduce the service-minded bug from the Virginia Beach field report, then make it impossible again
• Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents across Apache Kafka-based applications
• Ship the Apache Kafka high-trust rewrite that pays down years of Nissan technical debt
• Wrangle Nginx config across environments so Virginia Beach staging mirrors production
• Break large technology initiatives into Nginx increments Virginia Beach can actually deliver
• Keep Service Mesh schemas backward-compatible so Nissan never forces a breaking upgrade

What You'll Bring

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A communicator who can disagree without making it personal
• Comfort being the newest person in the room and the loudest in the notes
• Familiarity with the Virginia Beach market and local technology landscape

What began as two engineers and a whiteboard in Virginia Beach is now Nissan, a quick-to-ship team obsessed with getting Site Reliability Engineering right. A mid-level engineer and a director debate Networking ideas on equal footing in our Virginia Beach standups.

You get $71,000 - $110,000, a growth runway, a mentor, full benefits, and a flexible Virginia Beach, VA setup, no fine print, no catch.

Our hiring manager is personally reviewing every Cloud Engineer application that comes in.