Senior Cloud Engineer - Remote AI/Data Platform Lead

Bixal; Reston (VA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flex hours

401K with matching

Parental Leave

Medical/dental/vision benefits

Flex Spending Account

Disability and life insurance

Commuter benefits

PTO and holidays

Job summary

Bixal is seeking a Sr. Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and manage secure, scalable cloud infrastructure supporting data, analytics, and AI/ML workloads.

You will work hands-on with AWS, Databricks, Terraform, and GitHub Actions while collaborating with engineering and security teams to automate and strengthen our data platform. The role offers a fixed duration contract with transparency on updates and new opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field
• 4+ years of professional engineering experience

Responsibilities

• Own the design, deployment, and operations of cloud infrastructure for data platforms, analytics, and AI/ML workloads across development, validation, and production environments.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform to provision AWS and Databricks resources.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules and automation patterns for Databricks workspaces, Unity Catalog, networking, IAM roles, and storage.
• Administer and support Databricks environments, including workspace configuration, Unity Catalog governance, clusters, and secrets.
• Manage Databricks migrations and upgrades with minimal user disruption and stable downstream integrations.
• Design and implement secure AWS architectures with VPCs, private connectivity, IAM, encryption, and least-privilege access.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for infrastructure deployments, validation, and security checks.
• Develop automation tooling with Python and Bash to improve operations.
• Support enterprise identity management, OAuth/PAT, and automated permission handling.
• Implement observability and audit logging with Splunk and other monitoring tools.
• Design secure data platform integrations including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and external locations.
• Support AI/ML capabilities with MLflow, Databricks tooling, AWS Bedrock, and GenAI workloads.
• Collaborate with data engineering, analytics, security, and apps teams to troubleshoot platform issues.
• Lead investigations, PoCs, and platform improvements focused on reliability, security, and developer experience.
• Create documentation, runbooks, and self-service tooling for internal teams and external consumers.
• Participate in incident response and continuous improvement for production data platform services.
• Other duties as assigned.

Tools

Terraform

Databricks

AWS

GitHub Actions

Unity Catalog

S3

KMS

IAM

Job description

Bixal is seeking a Sr. Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and manage secure, scalable cloud infrastructure supporting data, analytics, and AI/ML workloads.

You will work hands-on with AWS, Databricks, Terraform, and GitHub Actions while collaborating with engineering and security teams to automate and strengthen our data platform. The role offers a fixed duration contract with transparency on updates and new opportunities.