Hybrid Cloud Platform Engineer - AWS/GCP/Azure

Referment; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Referment seeks a Cloud Engineer to join its systems team, focusing on production compute infrastructure and hybrid grid computing across AWS, GCP, and Azure. The role blends hands-on platform engineering with operational ownership, automating tooling and improving Linux compute reliability.

You will work with technologists to identify cloud use cases, move ideas from experimentation to production, and support services through their lifecycle, with secure-by-default principles guiding delivery.

Qualifications

• Five to seven years of infrastructure or software engineering experience supporting production systems.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Strong Linux skills in a hybrid environment, including debugging network traffic across public and private links.
• Experience with modern development and infrastructure-as-code practices such as Terraform.
• A solid grounding in cloud security fundamentals.
• The communication, organisation 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.

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Terraform

Linux

Job description

Referment seeks a Cloud Engineer to join its systems team, focusing on production compute infrastructure and hybrid grid computing across AWS, GCP, and Azure. The role blends hands-on platform engineering with operational ownership, automating tooling and improving Linux compute reliability.

You will work with technologists to identify cloud use cases, move ideas from experimentation to production, and support services through their lifecycle, with secure-by-default principles guiding delivery.