Senior Cloud Engineer

American Homes 4 Rent, L.P.; Nevada (IA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) with company matching

Tuition reimbursement

9 paid holidays and PTO accrual

Job summary

American Homes 4 Rent, L.P. is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure for high availability and scalability, emphasizing infrastructure as code, automation, and collaboration with IT peers to meet business objectives.

Responsibilities include deploying applications to the cloud, migrating workloads, monitoring performance, and optimizing resources for cost efficiency and resilience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or related field; equivalent experience considered.
• Minimum 4 years in cloud engineering or related field.
• Strong documentation and standard-setting experience.
• Advanced knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, OCI) and migration strategies.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain cloud-based infrastructure, applications, and services.
• Deploy new applications to the cloud and migrate existing workloads.
• Monitor performance and optimize resources for cost, availability, and reliability.
• Troubleshoot outages and incidents; participate in architecture design discussions.
• Document architecture and create SOPs for IT teams.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Architecture design

DevOps practices

CI/CD

Troubleshooting

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/OCI)

Job description

Since 2012, we've grown to become one of the leading single-family rental companies and homebuilders in the country, recently recognized as a top employer by Fortune and Great Place To Work. At AMH, our goal is to simplify the experience of leasing a home through professional management and maintenance support, so our residents can focus on what really matters to them, wherever they are in life.The Senior Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing cloud infrastructure and services to ensure high availability, reliability, and scalability as well as automating deployment of infrastructure through infrastructure as code. This role involves working closely with other IT professionals to develop and maintain cloud-based solutions that meet the company’s objectives.Responsibilities:Create and maintain cloud-based infrastructure, applications, and services. This includes selecting appropriate cloud services, creating architecture diagrams, and developing automation scripts.Deploy new applications to the cloud and migrate existing applications to modern cloud services.Monitor the performance of cloud-based systems and optimize resources to ensure cost-effectiveness and high availability.Troubleshoot and resolve any issues that arise and be part of responding to any outages.Support in the design and architecture of new solutions such as new applications, networking and systems or re-design to enhance current applications, networking and systems.Develop and enforce cloud security policies and procedures to protect data and applications from unauthorized access and potential security threats.Document the architecture of the environment, train other team members and create standard operating procedures for team members as well as other IT Teams.Requirements:Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, relative field or an equivalent combination of education and experience requiredMinimum four (4) years of experience working in Cloud Engineering, Software/Network Engineering, Computer and Information Science, and/or related field.Advanced knowledge and experience documenting infrastructure and setting standards and proceduresAdvanced knowledge and experience with Cloud Platforms (Azure, AWS, OCI), Cloud Strategy, Design, Architecture, and MigrationAdvanced knowledge and experience with DevOps and CI/CD pipelinesAdvanced knowledge and experience with troubleshooting Line-of-Business applications, Incident, Problem and Change ManagementExhibits excellent verbal, written, and executive presentation skills;collaborates effectively to facilitate progressive change;maintains a strong quality and results orientation;and implements process improvement changes with leadership direction.CompensationThe anticipated pay range/scale for this position is $105,322.00 to $131,652.00 Annually. Actual starting base pay within this range will depend on factors including geographic location, education, training, skills, and relevant experience.Additional CompensationThis position is eligible to receive a discretionary annual bonus.Perks and BenefitsEmployees have the opportunity to participate in medical, dental and vision insurance; flexible spending accounts and/or health savings accounts; dependent savings accounts; 401(k) with company matching contributions; employee stock purchase plan; and a tuition reimbursement program. The Company provides 9 paid holidays per year, and, upon hire, new employees will accrue paid time off (PTO) at a rate of 0.0577 hours of PTO per hour worked, up to a maximum of 120 hours per year.CA Privacy Notice: To learn more about what information we collect when you apply for a job, and how we use that information, please see our CA Job Applicant Privacy Notice found at https://www.amh.com/ca-privacy-notice.#LI-PH1