Senior Cloud Engineer: AI-Driven DevOps on GCP

inspiracareers; Oak Brook (IL); Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

First Dollar is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, administer, maintain, and support enterprise infrastructure in a dynamic health-tech environment. You will apply DevOps practices, automation, and AI-assisted tooling to accelerate development, improve code quality, and deliver scalable cloud solutions.

The role emphasizes collaboration with stakeholders, continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines, observability, and a proactive security posture in a fast-paced Agile setting.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure and solutions
• Work in an Agile framework to identify and automate solutions that result in enhanced developer experience and increased developer productivity.
• Provide Domain expertise in DevOps culture, tooling, delivery methods and practices in GCP cloud.
• Maintaining and upgrading the deployment platforms as well as system infrastructure with Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform or similar tools.
• Support inbound calls/emails, maintaining tickets within the issue tracking application related to Infrastructure Support
• Cross train and mentor other team members to facilitate coverage.
• Maintaining and upgrading CI/CD pipelines to enable development teams to go faster with high quality and robust security posture.
• Understand and adhere to organization’s architectural principles, patterns, and guidelines to ensure optimal solution development and implementation.
• Collaborate with architects to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards and strategies.
• Effectively utilize AI coding assistants to accelerate developer productivity.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices in solution architecture and technology innovation.
• Contribute towards defining and establishing benchmarks, metrics, and quality measures.
• Focus on the implementation of cost-effective, extensible, and supportable solutions.
• Support the stability and resiliency of all relevant production processes, as well as instituting a robust support model addressing process and application failures.
• Leverage AI as a tool, not a replacement - Candidates are expected to understand that AI is a power productivity multiplier while maintaining engineering judgment, and ensuring AI generated code meets quality standards
• Drive adoption of AI-powered coding assistants (Copilot, Claude, etc.) to enhance team productivity, automate workflows, and mentor others in best practices for AI tool integration.
• Maintaining and upgrading observability, alerting and dashboard platforms using GCP tools and/or enterprise tools.
• Other duties as assigned.

Job description

First Dollar is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, administer, maintain, and support enterprise infrastructure in a dynamic health-tech environment. You will apply DevOps practices, automation, and AI-assisted tooling to accelerate development, improve code quality, and deliver scalable cloud solutions.

The role emphasizes collaboration with stakeholders, continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines, observability, and a proactive security posture in a fast-paced Agile setting.