Senior Cloud Engineer - GCP/Azure - Remote

Eliassen Group; Trenton (NJ); Remote; USD 96,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a senior Cloud Engineer to own and stabilize a legacy GCP and Azure footprint while guiding conversions and decommissioning. The role supports automation and platform builds using GCP, Go, and Temporal for orchestration, and Terraform and Python on Azure.

You will collaborate across teams to deliver reliable cloud solutions, set engineering standards, and mentor engineers, ensuring security, compliance, and cost optimization in a build-and-own environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• 2+ years cloud engineering experience.
• GCP experience required; Azure preferred.
• Automation experience with Go and/or Python.
• Terraform and Temporal experience.
• 6+ years coding with Java, Scala, Python, Go or Node.js (preferred).
• 3+ years with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI).
• 3+ years with CI/CD, IaC and Policy-as-Code.
• Cloud infra or security certification preferred.
• Distributed systems, microservices, Kubernetes or serverless exposure.

Responsibilities

• Lead adoption and responsible use of AI and automation to improve scalability, reliability, and efficiency of cloud platforms and engineering workflows.
• Mentor engineers, share technology trends, and engage with internal/external communities.
• Collaborate with product managers to deliver robust cloud solutions.
• Utilize Java, Scala, Python, Go, or Node.js and Docker/Kubernetes with cloud services.
• Provide technical leadership across Agile teams and set design/development standards.
• Partner with architects to define service boundaries and reusable patterns.
• Identify improvement opportunities and contribute to well-managed cloud solutions.
• Influence long-term technology strategy in a build-and-own environment.
• Integrate risk awareness including cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, audits, and change management.
• Lead technical strategy for cloud initiatives and mentor developers building scalable platforms.

Skills

Java

Scala

Python

Go

Node.js

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud platform services

CI/CD

AI-driven tooling

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Temporal

GCP

Azure

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a senior Cloud Engineer to own and stabilize a legacy GCP and Azure footprint while guiding conversions and decommissioning. The role supports automation and platform builds using GCP, Go, and Temporal for orchestration, and Terraform and Python on Azure.

You will collaborate across teams to deliver reliable cloud solutions, set engineering standards, and mentor engineers, ensuring security, compliance, and cost optimization in a build-and-own environment.