Senior Cloud Engineer

Koch Business Solutions, LP; Wichita (KS); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Retirement plan

Job summary

Koch Engineered Solutions is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, build, automate, secure, and operate scalable cloud and hybrid infrastructure from Wichita, KS. This hands-on role emphasizes cloud architecture, IaC, reliability, security, and modernization to empower platform engineering patterns and self-service capabilities.

The candidate will collaborate across teams to implement IAM, encryption, cost optimization, and governance while supporting DevOps and application delivery.

Qualifications

• Proven hands-on experience designing, building, and operating cloud environments (AWS preferred).
• Strong skills in Infrastructure as Code and automation.
• Ability to mentor engineers and communicate with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and support secure, scalable cloud infrastructure (AWS-focused).
• Develop and maintain IaC using Terraform and related tooling.
• Create reusable cloud patterns for networking, compute, storage, identity, monitoring, and recovery.
• Improve cloud reliability with observability, incident response, and governance guardrails.
• Collaborate with security and DevOps teams to enable cost transparency and optimization.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Terraform

AWS

DevOps

Platform engineering

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD tools

Job description

Your Job

Koch Engineered Solutions is hiring a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, build, automate, secure, and operate scalable cloud and hybrid infrastructure. This is a hands-on, engineering-focused role responsible for cloud architecture, Infrastructure as Code, reliability, security, governance, automation, and modernization. The ideal candidate combines deep cloud engineering expertise with familiarity in modern platform engineering practices, supporting reusable patterns, self-service capabilities, CI/CD collaboration, and developer enablement.

This position is located in Wichita, KS. Visa Sponsorship is not available for this role.

What You Will Do

• Design, build, and support secure, scalable, and resilient cloud infrastructure, with AWS as the primary area of focus.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and related automation practices.
• Create reusable cloud patterns for networking, compute, storage, identity, monitoring, backup, and recovery.
• Improve cloud reliability through observability, alerting, incident response, root cause analysis, and operational hardening.
• Partner with security teams to implement IAM, access controls, encryption, network segmentation, logging, and governance guardrails.
• Support cloud cost transparency and optimization through tagging, rightsizing, usage analysis, and lifecycle management.
• Leverage and explore AI-enabled capabilities to improve infrastructure operations, automation, troubleshooting, monitoring, and overall cloud engineering productivity.
• Help modernize legacy infrastructure and enable more automated, repeatable, and cloud-native delivery models.
• Collaborate with application, DevOps, architecture, and infrastructure teams to support delivery while reducing manual effort and operational friction.
• Contribute to platform engineering foundations such as standard templates, reusable deployment patterns, self-service infrastructure concepts, and improved developer experience.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Proven expertise in IT infrastructure, systems, cloud, DevOps, or platform engineering experience.
• Deep hands-on experience designing, building, and operating cloud environments, preferably AWS.
• Strong experience with Terraform or comparable Infrastructure as Code tooling.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, IAM, security controls, monitoring, backup, recovery, and hybrid connectivity.
• Experience supporting production environments and troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues.
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders and mentor other engineers.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience with Kubernetes, EKS/ECS, Docker, serverless, CI/CD tools, and observability platforms.
• Experience with scripting or automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages.
• Exposure to FinOps, disaster recovery planning, cloud security tooling, policy-as-code, or AI/ML infrastructure needs.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

As a Koch company, Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is a dynamic network of businesses that work together to create an ecosystem of domain expertise to increase operational efficiency, improve safety, reduce waste, and reduce emissions.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

• Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance.

Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. #LI-MW1