Senior Cloud Engineer (L3) — AWS, Terraform & GitOps Lead

Rackspace Technology; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Rackspace Technology seeks a senior L3 DevOps / Cloud Engineer to lead complex infrastructure, automation, and platform reliability across production and non-production environments.

You will own Terraform, AWX/Ansible, ArgoCD, GitOps, and Kubernetes workflows, drive DR planning and testing, and mentor L1/L2 engineers to raise operational excellence.

The role emphasizes engineering rigor, standardization, and scalable automation across Cloud platforms including AWS, EKS, and Helm charts.

Qualifications

• Senior technical resource leading complex infra and DevOps activities.

Responsibilities

• Act as the L3 escalation point for complex Cloud, DevOps, Kubernetes issues.
• Lead major technical activities across production and non-production environments.
• Own complex infrastructure changes, upgrades, migrations, and platform improvements.
• Lead DR planning, restore testing, failover/failback, and DR validation.
• Design and implement infrastructure using Terraform and develop reusable modules.
• Review Terraform code and enforce coding standards.
• Develop reusable Ansible roles and automation workflows.
• Use AWX to automate server config, patching, deployment, and ops.
• Implement GitOps practices with ArgoCD and manage ArgoCD deployments.
• Define and enforce IaC and Kubernetes standards.
• Lead automation initiatives with Terraform, Ansible, Bash, Python.
• Mentor L1/L2 engineers and perform RCAs.

Skills

Leadership

Automation

Cloud Architecture

Root Cause Analysis

Mentoring

Technical Standards

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

AWX

Ansible

ArgoCD

GitOps

Kubernetes

Helm

Docker

Jenkins

CI/CD

AWS

Linux

Windows

Bash

Python

Git

Job description

Rackspace Technology seeks a senior L3 DevOps / Cloud Engineer to lead complex infrastructure, automation, and platform reliability across production and non-production environments.

You will own Terraform, AWX/Ansible, ArgoCD, GitOps, and Kubernetes workflows, drive DR planning and testing, and mentor L1/L2 engineers to raise operational excellence.

The role emphasizes engineering rigor, standardization, and scalable automation across Cloud platforms including AWS, EKS, and Helm charts.