Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS, Kubernetes & IaC

Morgan McKinley; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan McKinley seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, scale, and operate a hybrid cloud platform for a leading global investment manager in New York. You will build high-availability AWS infrastructure, manage production EKS clusters, and expand IaC with Terraform and Ansible.

The role requires strong incident response, security-minded engineering, and close collaboration with software, trading, and business teams, plus periodic on-call rotations.

Qualifications

• Extensive background in senior-level AWS cloud engineering and architecture.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes (EKS) and containerization.
• Experience delivering end-to-end IaC with Terraform and Ansible.
• Strong incident-response skills under high pressure.
• Hybrid AWS/on-prem exposure and security-minded engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale AWS services including networking, storage, load balancing, serverless, and monitoring/logging.
• Deploy, scale, and maintain production EKS clusters as workloads expand.
• Drive the evolution of IaC using Terraform and Ansible.
• Serve as senior escalation point for incidents in high-stakes environments.
• Collaborate with developers, trading desks, and business leaders to turn requirements into robust infrastructure.
• Promote engineering best practices while delivering high-impact solutions.

Skills

AWS Cloud Engineering

Kubernetes (EKS)

Linux administration

Networking troubleshooting

Incident response

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

EKS

Job description

Morgan McKinley seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, scale, and operate a hybrid cloud platform for a leading global investment manager in New York. You will build high-availability AWS infrastructure, manage production EKS clusters, and expand IaC with Terraform and Ansible.

The role requires strong incident response, security-minded engineering, and close collaboration with software, trading, and business teams, plus periodic on-call rotations.