Senior Cloud Engineer: AI Infra, GitOps & FinOps Lead

xdesign; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work options

Hybrid/Remote setup

Office hubs (UK/Europe)

Job summary

xdesign is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to bridge architecture and implementation across client delivery teams. You will shape secure, scalable production systems by combining infrastructure engineering with software development, data engineering, and AI infrastructure.

The role covers cloud platforms, observability, FinOps, and mentorship within a flexible hybrid/remote setup. You will mentor engineers, develop reference architectures, and contribute IaC templates while partnering with

Qualifications

• Balanced engineering background across infrastructure, software, and data engineering with emphasis on infra/platform work.
• Extensive experience writing declarative Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and operating Kubernetes clusters, nodes, and pods.
• Practical experience with cloud platform engineering, automation, CI/CD, GitOps, and production-grade distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction, unblock complex delivery problems, support migrations, and write high-quality, specification-driven code.
• Build and maintain self-service developer platforms that create compliant, temporary environments through GitOps workflows.
• Implement data pipelines, workflow orchestration, and specialized compute for enterprise AI and agentic applications, including services such as AWS Bedrock and AWS AgentCore.
• Establish monitoring and observability for distributed cloud applications and AI models, with attention to health, performance, reliability, and security.
• Embed FinOps practices into CI/CD, including automated cost estimation, resource optimization, and default auto-shutdown controls.
• Advise client stakeholders such as technical leads, project managers, and enterprise architects while balancing delivery timelines, budgets, and technical quality.
• Mentor engineers, contribute reference architectures and Infrastructure-as-Code templates, share technical knowledge, and help set engineering standards.

Skills

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitOps

Data pipelines

Observability

FinOps

Cloud platforms

Automation

Tools

Infracost

Bedrock

Karpenter

Job description

xdesign is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to bridge architecture and implementation across client delivery teams. You will shape secure, scalable production systems by combining infrastructure engineering with software development, data engineering, and AI infrastructure.

The role covers cloud platforms, observability, FinOps, and mentorship within a flexible hybrid/remote setup. You will mentor engineers, develop reference architectures, and contribute IaC templates while partnering with