Cloud Engineer 4

Centex Tech; Town of Texas (WI); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work in the U.S.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Job summary

Centex Technologies is seeking a Cloud Engineer IV to architect, implement, secure, and optimize enterprise cloud environments. You will own secure design patterns, drive automation via infrastructure-as-code, and mentor engineers while collaborating across programs and customers.

The role emphasizes leadership in security, observability, and cost management. This is a remote U.S. position with potential occasional travel to align with customer needs and program schedules.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent directly relevant experience.
• Seven or more years of infrastructure or cloud engineering experience, including senior ownership of production cloud environments.
• Advanced knowledge of cloud networking, identity, security, automation, resiliency, observability, and cost management.
• Demonstrated ability to translate requirements into defensible architecture and implementation decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design secure, resilient landing zones, network patterns, identity boundaries, shared services, and workload architectures.
• Implement cloud infrastructure through reviewed, reusable infrastructure-as-code and automated configuration.
• Establish monitoring, logging, backup, disaster recovery, patching, and operational runbooks.
• Apply least privilege, encryption, segmentation, secrets management, and cloud security controls.
• Produce architecture decisions, diagrams, implementation standards, and customer-ready technical documentation.
• Lead technical reviews, resolve high-impact incidents, and mentor engineers across programs.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

IaC

Security

Networking

Observability

IAM

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Centex Technologies is hiring a Cloud Engineer 4 to architect, implement, secure, and optimize enterprise cloud environments used by Centex Technologies programs and customers. This opportunity is well suited to an experienced professional who enjoys owning difficult work, creating clarity, and collaborating across technical, program, and customer teams.

What You'll Do

• Design secure, resilient landing zones, network patterns, identity boundaries, shared services, and workload architectures.
• Implement cloud infrastructure through reviewed, reusable infrastructure-as-code and automated configuration.
• Establish monitoring, logging, backup, disaster recovery, patching, and operational runbooks.
• Apply least privilege, encryption, segmentation, secrets management, and cloud security controls.
• Produce architecture decisions, diagrams, implementation standards, and customer-ready technical documentation.
• Lead technical reviews, resolve high-impact incidents, and mentor engineers across programs.

Why Join Centex Technologies

• Join an established small business with more than 20 years of experience supporting customers and solving complex technology and mission needs.
• Work remotely within the United States while contributing to meaningful customer outcomes.
• Take ownership of complex work and collaborate directly with experienced technical and program professionals.

Work Arrangement

This is a remote U.S. position. Occasional travel or work outside normal hours may be required based on customer and program needs.

Background and Clearance

Employment is subject to required background screening. Some assignments may require the ability to obtain and maintain a public trust determination or security clearance.

Centex Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Centex Technologies provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities during the application process and employment.

Requirements

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent directly relevant experience.
• Seven or more years of infrastructure or cloud engineering experience, including senior ownership of production cloud environments.
• Advanced knowledge of cloud networking, identity, security, automation, resiliency, observability, and cost management.
• Demonstrated ability to translate requirements into defensible architecture and implementation decisions.

Preferred

• Experience supporting federal, defense, regulated, or FedRAMP-aligned environments.
• Experience with multi-account or multi-subscription governance and hybrid-cloud integration.