Cloud Platform Engineer: Build Secure, Scalable Infra

Nexcess; United States; Remote; USD 145,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa support

Relocation assistance

Daily lunches in the office

International team

Medical insurance

Equipment provided

English language practice

Job summary

Nexcess is seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer to own features end to end within the Cloud Services group. You will specify, implement, test, deploy, and monitor production-ready enhancements, ensuring reliability and security.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, stay close to production, and apply AI-assisted tools while maintaining rigorous validation and documentation. This role emphasizes ownership, mentorship, and clear communication in a distributed team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience working with cloud computing infrastructure and production environments.
• 5+ years of experience with Linux server administration.
• 5+ years of experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible or Puppet.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure reliability, availability, security, and production operations.
• Experience building, maintaining, and supporting production systems, including ownership after deployment.
• Experience participating in an on-call rotation and responding to production incidents.
• Ability to work effectively in unfamiliar systems and troubleshoot across different parts of a production environment.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted engineering tools as part of day-to-day technical work.
• Strong testing and validation habits, with a focus on proving changes work correctly before and after deployment.
• Clear written communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a remote, distributed team across multiple time zones.

Responsibilities

• Own platform features end to end within the Cloud Services domain. Take work from specification through implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing production support.
• Translate business and technical requirements into clear specifications. Identify unknowns and dependencies early, clarify ambiguity before development starts, and make sure the solution is precise enough to build and operate reliably.
• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure and automation. Work with Linux-based environments, configuration management tooling, and infrastructure components that support secure and highly available services.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools as part of your daily workflow. Apply agentic tooling for implementation and review, while remaining accountable for the quality, security, and operability of the final result.
• Verify changes with evidence. Write and maintain tests, validate failure scenarios as well as the happy path, and provide clear evidence that changes are ready for production.
• Review code and technical changes from other engineers. Identify design or operational risks early, provide clear and actionable feedback, and help maintain a high standard of engineering quality.
• Mentor less experienced engineers. Share technical knowledge, explain the reasoning behind solutions, and support others through design, implementation, and review.
• Own the services you run. Participate in the on-call rotation, respond to incidents, document findings and follow-up actions, and reduce operational toil through automation and improved tooling.
• Work safely in existing and unfamiliar systems. Understand and improve legacy or complex infrastructure without unnecessary rewrites, and leave systems better documented and instrumented than you found them.
• Coordinate dependencies directly with other teams. Identify cross-team needs early and work with the relevant engineers to resolve them before they become delivery blockers.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Linux administration

On-call incident management

Automation and configuration

AI-assisted engineering tools

Testing and validation

Remote collaboration

Security and reliability

Production systems ownership

Tools

Ansible

Puppet

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Nexcess is seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer to own features end to end within the Cloud Services group. You will specify, implement, test, deploy, and monitor production-ready enhancements, ensuring reliability and security.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, stay close to production, and apply AI-assisted tools while maintaining rigorous validation and documentation. This role emphasizes ownership, mentorship, and clear communication in a distributed team.