Senior Cloud Engineer – Kubernetes & Cloud Security

Delinea; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Bonus program

Pension matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Delinea is seeking a highly experienced Senior Cloud Engineer to design, maintain, and secure the hosting platform for two global SaaS products. You will develop tools and services to streamline operations and platform development, applying cloud-native architecture and progressive delivery.

You will collaborate on architecture decisions, own SLOs, drive observability and automation, and ensure security and compliance across the estate. A bachelor’s degree plus hands-on cloud work are required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in infrastructure, platform, or cloud engineering.
• 3+ years running Kubernetes in production.
• Experience with large-scale SaaS operations and incident resolution.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures and progressive delivery.
• Proficient in IaC and CI/CD tooling.

Responsibilities

• Define cloud-native architectural patterns and ensure adherence across the platform.
• Lead architecture decisions and reviews; escalate complex problems.
• Own SLOs and ensure high availability, resilience, and scalability.
• Drive observability, monitoring, and cost optimization initiatives.
• Design secure, scalable infrastructure hosting global SaaS services.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Kubernetes production

Incident resolution

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Python

Go

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE

Tools

Azure

Terraform

Bicep/ARM templates

Datadog

Prometheus

Istio/Linkerd

Cloudflare/Azure Front Door

Job description

Delinea is seeking a highly experienced Senior Cloud Engineer to design, maintain, and secure the hosting platform for two global SaaS products. You will develop tools and services to streamline operations and platform development, applying cloud-native architecture and progressive delivery.

You will collaborate on architecture decisions, own SLOs, drive observability and automation, and ensure security and compliance across the estate. A bachelor’s degree plus hands-on cloud work are required.