Remote Senior AWS Cloud Engineer, Kubernetes & Terraform

Rise Technical; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Rise Technical seeks an experienced Cloud Engineer to own the AWS-based SaaS infrastructure behind mission-critical grid software. You will design, build, and operate the cloud environment, including Kubernetes clusters, automated tenant provisioning, and high-performance batch pipelines.

You will optimize compute-heavy workloads, implement security controls, and act as the escalation tier for production infrastructure in a remote, national US setting.

Qualifications

• Proven experience operating production SaaS infrastructure on AWS.
• Strong proficiency with Terraform and GitOps deployment pipelines.
• Hands-on experience managing Kubernetes and EKS clusters.
• Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL or SQL Server.

Responsibilities

• Architect and own scalable AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Build automated customer tenant provisioning pipelines.
• Scale simulation batch workloads on Kubernetes.
• Design and secure managed cloud databases.
• Develop infrastructure using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

CI/CD

EKS

PostgreSQL/SQL Server

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Job description

Rise Technical seeks an experienced Cloud Engineer to own the AWS-based SaaS infrastructure behind mission-critical grid software. You will design, build, and operate the cloud environment, including Kubernetes clusters, automated tenant provisioning, and high-performance batch pipelines.

You will optimize compute-heavy workloads, implement security controls, and act as the escalation tier for production infrastructure in a remote, national US setting.