Hybrid Cloud Platform Engineer – Automation & Reliability

Referment; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Referment is partnering with an established investment management firm to hire a Cloud Engineer for a systems team responsible for production compute infrastructure. The role blends hands-on platform engineering with operational ownership, focusing on hybrid grid computing and extending on-prem capacity into major cloud platforms.

You will design, build, and operate the hybrid infrastructure, improve Linux compute reliability, and develop automation to simplify cloud usage for engineering teams

Qualifications

• Five to seven years of infrastructure or software engineering experience
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure
• Strong Linux skills in a hybrid environment, including debugging network traffic
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code practices such as Terraform
• Solid grounding in cloud security fundamentals
• Strong communication, organization and judgement to carry technical initiatives forward

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate hybrid grid-computing infrastructure that can burst workloads into AWS, GCP and Azure
• Improve the reliability and performance of Linux-based compute platforms and their networking
• Develop tooling and automation that make cloud capabilities consistent and straightforward for engineering teams
• Own cloud-platform observability and participate in an operational escalation rotation, taking incidents from triage through remediation
• Partner with technologists to identify valuable cloud opportunities and guide adoption
• Apply secure-by-default principles throughout platform design and delivery

Skills

Linux

Cloud platforms

Terraform

Networking

Incident management

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Referment is partnering with an established investment management firm to hire a Cloud Engineer for a systems team responsible for production compute infrastructure. The role blends hands-on platform engineering with operational ownership, focusing on hybrid grid computing and extending on-prem capacity into major cloud platforms.

You will design, build, and operate the hybrid infrastructure, improve Linux compute reliability, and develop automation to simplify cloud usage for engineering teams