Mid-Level Cloud Engineer

Sligo Software Solutions Inc.; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Sligo Software Solutions Inc. seeks a Mid-Level Platform Engineer to join the DFS Platform Services team. You will help build, operate, and maintain an internal platform that accelerates software delivery.

You will work under experienced engineers in a mentorship-rich environment and contribute to a scalable, secure cloud platform. The role emphasizes hands-on Terraform, GCP, CI/CD, and observability tasks, with direct involvement in Agile ceremonies and production operations.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or systems administration.
• Experience in a public cloud environment (GCP preferred; AWS/Azure acceptable).
• Proven ability to build, operate, and maintain cloud computing systems and solutions.
• Strong automation and governance mindset for cloud resources.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for development workflows.
• Author and maintain Terraform code for GCP infrastructure provisioning.
• Support Salesforce/GearSet deployment pipelines and documentation.
• Maintain SonarQube and GitHub integration for static analysis and security scanning.
• Manage build artifacts using GCP Artifact Registry.
• Support observability stack (Splunk, monitoring, alerting).
• Manage GKE cluster operations and namespace management.
• Handle GCP resources across dev/test/prod (compute, networking, IAM, secrets).
• Migrate manually provisioned GCP resources into Terraform.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and sprint delivery.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

DevOps

CI/CD

Agile delivery

Observability

Automation

Terraform

GCP

GitHub workflows

Security scanning

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer

Terraform Associate (HashiCorp)

Tools

GCP

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Cloud Build

SonarQube

Splunk

GKE

Artifact Registry

IAM

Secret Manager

Job description

Description

The Platform Engineer (Mid-Level) is an engineering role on the newly established DFS Platform Services team. This role contributes directly to building, operating, and maintaining the internal platform that enables development and operations teams to ship software faster and more reliably. The candidate will work under the guidance of the Lead and Senior Platform Engineers in a structured, mentorship-rich environment.

Description

The Platform Engineer (Mid-Level) is an engineering role on the newly established DFS Platform Services team. This role contributes directly to building, operating, and maintaining the internal platform that enables development and operations teams to ship software faster and more reliably. The candidate will work under the guidance of the Lead and Senior Platform Engineers in a structured, mentorship-rich environment.

Duties

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting development team delivery workflows
• Author and maintain Terraform code for GCP infrastructure provisioning following established standards and patterns
• Support and maintain existing Salesforce/GearSet deployment pipelines, including troubleshooting and documentation
• Maintain the SonarQube and GitHub integration for static code analysis and security scanning
• Manage build artifacts using GCP Artifact Registry
• Support the observability stack including Splunk log forwarding, monitoring, and alerting
• Support GKE cluster operations including workload deployments and namespace management
• Manage GCP resources including compute, networking, IAM, and secrets management across dev, test, and production environments
• Migrate manually provisioned GCP resources into Terraform
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and sprint delivery

Mandatory Requirements

• Experience (12+ Years)
• Applies engineering disciplines to cloud computing and brings a systematic approach to concerns of commercialization, standardization, and governance of cloud computing applications. Leverages the methods and tools of engineering in conceiving, developing, operating and maintaining cloud computing systems and solutions. Uses the economics of cloud resources to solve business problems.

Requirements

• This is an 100% Onsite.
• 60 months of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or systems administration, including at least 2 years in a public cloud environment (GCP preferred; AWS or Azure considered).
• 36 months of experience with GCP, including Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, VPC networking, IAM, and Secret Manager.
• 36 months of experience with Terraform, including reading, writing, and modifying infrastructure code within established patterns.
• 36 months of experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, or equivalent.
• 36 monthsof experience with GitHub and Git workflows, including pull requests and branch management.
• 24 months of experience in an Agile delivery environment, including sprint ceremonies and iterative delivery.
• 12 months of experience with Splunk for log analysis and observability.
• 12 months of experience with static code analysis tools such as SonarQube within a CI/CD pipeline.
• Bachelor's Degree
• Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer or Terraform Associate (HashiCorp)
• R sum
• Copy of Candidate Identification (i.e., Driver's License/Green Card/Visa and Passport if applicable)
• Any documents referenced in the above Requested Qualifications (i.e., professional certifications, degrees, etc.)