Senior Cloud Engineer: AI Platforms & FinOps Lead

xdesign; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid/remote options

Office hubs in multiple locations

Occasional travel to client sites

Job summary

xdesign is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to lead client delivery, bridging architecture and implementation. You will build secure, scalable cloud systems, balancing infra, software, and data practices while mentoring teams and shaping standards.

The role emphasizes self-service platforms, observability, FinOps integration in CI/CD, and collaboration with enterprise architects and project managers on complex migrations and cost controls.

Qualifications

• Balanced engineering background across infrastructure, software, and data engineering with emphasis on infrastructure/platform work.
• Extensive experience writing declarative IaC with Terraform and operating Kubernetes clusters, nodes, and pods.
• Practical experience with cloud platform engineering, automation, CI/CD, GitOps, and production-grade distributed systems.
• Experience building or supporting data pipelines, workflow systems, observability, and reliability practices for cloud applications.
• Familiarity with cloud-native cost management and tools like Infracost or Karpenter; strong client-facing communication and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction, unblock complex delivery problems, support migrations, and write high-quality code.
• Build and maintain self-service developer platforms enabling compliant, temporary environments via GitOps.
• Implement data pipelines and workflow orchestration for enterprise AI and agentic applications (e.g., AWS Bedrock and AWS AgentCore).
• Establish monitoring and observability for distributed cloud apps and AI models with focus on health, performance, reliability, and security.
• Embed FinOps into CI/CD with automated cost estimation, resource optimization, and default auto-shutdown controls.
• Advise client stakeholders and mentor engineers while balancing timelines, budgets, and technical quality.
• Contribute reference architectures and IaC templates and help set engineering standards.

Skills

Cloud platform engineering

CI/CD

GitOps

Distributed systems

Observability

Mentoring

Client communication

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Infracost

Karpenter

Job description

xdesign is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to lead client delivery, bridging architecture and implementation. You will build secure, scalable cloud systems, balancing infra, software, and data practices while mentoring teams and shaping standards.

The role emphasizes self-service platforms, observability, FinOps integration in CI/CD, and collaboration with enterprise architects and project managers on complex migrations and cost controls.