Senior Cloud Engineer

Texas Mutual Insurance Company

United States

Remote

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Annual performance bonus

Employer retirement contributions (401

Health, Rx, vision and dental ins.

Life and disability insurance

Flexible spending account

Tuition reimbursement

On-site gym and wellness resources

Employee referral bonus

Job summary

Texas Mutual Insurance Company is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, deploy, and manage cloud environments on AWS, ensuring security, reliability, and cost efficiency.

You will develop automation, IaC templates, and backup strategies, while collaborating with DevOps and software teams. Mentoring junior engineers and supporting both in-office and remote work will be part of the role.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, MIS, or a related field.
Five (5) years of experience in cloud infrastructure engineering.
Experience with AWS, IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation), serverless, IAM, CI/CD integrations.

Responsibilities

Design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS to support business applications and services.
Implement backup, restore and disaster recovery strategies to ensure business continuity.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide cloud solutions and document runbooks.
Mentor junior engineers and share AWS knowledge and best practices.
Report to the Austin, TX office and support remote or telecommuting arrangements.

Skills

AWS cloud

CI/CD

Python

PowerShell

Bash

SDLC integration

DevOps collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering / MIS

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Git

Jenkins

Bitbucket

Job description

We’re excited you’re considering joining a great place to work!

Texas Mutual is deeply committed to creating and maintaining an environment of mutual respect and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal law.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

Design, deploy, and manage cloud-based infrastructure in AWS to support business applications and services. Utilize performance metrics and monitoring tools to optimize infrastructure performance and cost efficiency. Develop and maintain automation scripts and infrastructure as code (IaC) templates. Ensure the security, reliability, and availability of cloud environments, implementing best practices and compliance standards. Implement and manage backup, restore and disaster recovery strategies for cloud infrastructure and applications to ensure business continuity. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and provide cloud solutions to meet their needs. Create documentation and runbooks to accelerate adoption of cloud services to other engineering and platform teams. Stay up to date with the latest AWS technologies and industry trends, providing insights and recommendations for improvements. Implement best practices for cloud security, identity and access management (IAM), encryption, and compliance. Work closely with DevOps and software engineering teams to integrate cloud infrastructure into application development and deployment processes, focusing on cloud-native microservices and serverless architecture. Lead small to medium scale projects and initiatives, planning effectively and ensuring successful execution. Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to cloud infrastructure, networking and application deployment. Mentor junior engineers, sharing AWS knowledge and best practices. Must be available to report to Austin, TX office. Telecommuting permitted.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related field.

Five (5) years of experience in cloud infrastructure engineering.

Requires experience in each of the following: Amazon Web Services (AWS); Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform and AWS CloudFormation; Serverless architecture implementation; Scalable and resilient infrastructure design; Identity and Access Management (IAM); Developing tools and scripts in Python, Bash, and PowerShell to support deployment automation; Integration of cloud solutions into SDLC; and, Continuous integration/Continuous deployment (CI/CD) using tools like Git, Jenkins, or Bitbucket.

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