Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer - Remote-Friendly

Menifee Senior Living; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Globus Operations, a unit within The University of Chicago, operates cloud infrastructure for a research‑computing platform used by hundreds of institutions worldwide. You will help design, build, and run scalable cloud services with a focus on IAM, networking, monitoring, and security.

You will work on IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation, manage CI/CD pipelines, and participate in on‑call rotations, incident analyses, and security improvements across AWS environments.

Qualifications

• Education: college/university degree in a related field.
• Work experience: 5–7 years in a related discipline.
• Certifications: not specified.

Responsibilities

• Define cloud infrastructure architecture across production and development environments.
• Develop and maintain software and infrastructure as code (Python, Bash, Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Maintain machine images and deployment pipelines (Packer, AWS CodeBuild, SSM, KMS).
• Monitor and migrate observability tools (Nagios/NRPE to Prometheus).
• Administer IAM roles, policies, and cross‑account trust in AWS Organization.
• Participate in on‑call rotation, incident response, and post‑mortem analyses.
• Collaborate with engineering and support teams to resolve operational issues.

Skills

AWS at scale

IAM

VPC

EC2

S3

RDS

Route53

Lambda

Systems Manager

CloudWatch

Terraform

CloudFormation

Python

Bash

CI/CD

Docker

Nagios/NRPE

PagerDuty

GitHub Actions

Linux Administration

Education

College/university degree in related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

AWS CodeBuild

GitHub Actions

Nagios/NRPE

PagerDuty

Job description

Globus Operations, a unit within The University of Chicago, operates cloud infrastructure for a research‑computing platform used by hundreds of institutions worldwide. You will help design, build, and run scalable cloud services with a focus on IAM, networking, monitoring, and security.

You will work on IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation, manage CI/CD pipelines, and participate in on‑call rotations, incident analyses, and security improvements across AWS environments.