Senior AWS Cloud Architect & Engineer for HPC Workloads

Altera Corporation; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 187,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Altera Corporation in San Jose, CA seeks a senior AWS Cloud Engineer/Architect to design, deploy, and optimize scalable AWS infrastructure supporting enterprise apps and HPC workloads. You will drive IaC using Terraform, automate deployments, and ensure security and reliability across environments.

You will collaborate with infrastructure, networking, and cybersecurity teams to deliver high-performance storage and compute, while optimizing costs and resilience in a hybrid cloud setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years in infrastructure, systems, cloud engineering, or related technical roles.
• 5+ years of hands-on AWS infrastructure engineering and production operations.
• Strong AWS networking, compute, storage, identity, security, and monitoring knowledge.
• Ability to independently design, deploy, and troubleshoot production AWS environments.
• Hands-on Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience.
• Python, Bash, or similar scripting proficiency.
• Linux administration; TCP/IP, DNS, routing, VPN, firewalls, and hybrid connectivity.
• CI/CD, Git workflows, infrastructure automation, incident management, RCA, and disaster recovery.
• Strong technical ownership, documentation, and cross-functional communication.
• Experience designing, deploying, and troubleshooting HPC clusters or batch-compute environments in AWS or hybrid infrastructure.
• Experience implementing and optimizing high-performance shared storage (FSx Lustre, EFS, NFS, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and maintain AWS infrastructure across accounts and environments.
• Architect highly available, resilient, and scalable solutions using AWS best practices.
• Develop and maintain Terraform provisioning, reusable modules, and automated deployments.
• Implement infrastructure CI/CD using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, or equivalent.
• Automate operational tasks with Python, Bash, AWS CLI, and APIs.
• Own AWS operations, monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident resolution.
• Implement proactive observability with CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and related tools.
• Partner with Cybersecurity on vulnerabilities, posture management, remediation, and compliance.
• Support HPC/batch compute workloads and optimized shared storage configurations.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Python

Linux

CI/CD

Security

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering or related field

Tools

Terraform

AWS CLI

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

AWS CodePipeline

Docker

Job description

Altera Corporation in San Jose, CA seeks a senior AWS Cloud Engineer/Architect to design, deploy, and optimize scalable AWS infrastructure supporting enterprise apps and HPC workloads. You will drive IaC using Terraform, automate deployments, and ensure security and reliability across environments.

You will collaborate with infrastructure, networking, and cybersecurity teams to deliver high-performance storage and compute, while optimizing costs and resilience in a hybrid cloud setting.