Senior Cloud Engineer: Architecture & Delivery (Contract)

Egreenservices; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 98,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Conference budgets

Promotions from within

Job summary

SmartSolutions in Madison, WI seeks a hands-on Cloud Engineer to architect, code, and deploy fault-tolerant distributed systems. The contract role offers $98,000–$132,000 annually, with strong health coverage and growth opportunities. You will contribute to ownership and delivery while aligning with team goals.

You will lead design reviews, optimize data pipelines, and reinforce testing, security, and observability. This fast-paced environment values transparency and accountability.

Qualifications

• History of leaving technology processes better than you found them.
• 7+ years putting Project Management to work in a technology setting.
• Grit to debug on a deadline and translate findings into recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Guard DNS Management codebase quality through reviews.
• Lead design reviews to catch costly mistakes before deployment.
• Build the Service Mesh feature to win back clients.
• Refactor the technology module that has been difficult to touch.
• Scale data pipelines processing millions of events.
• Drive adoption of testing, security, and observability best practices.
• Turn CloudFormation on-call noise into meaningful alerts.

Skills

Process improvement

Project management

Under pressure debugging

Estimate accuracy

Portfolio

Data interpretation

Decision making

Tools

Jenkins

Service Mesh

Job description

SmartSolutions in Madison, WI seeks a hands-on Cloud Engineer to architect, code, and deploy fault-tolerant distributed systems. The contract role offers $98,000–$132,000 annually, with strong health coverage and growth opportunities. You will contribute to ownership and delivery while aligning with team goals.

You will lead design reviews, optimize data pipelines, and reinforce testing, security, and observability. This fast-paced environment values transparency and accountability.