Senior Cloud Engineer - Remote (AWS, Databricks, Terraform)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Flex hours

401K with matching incentive

Parental Leave

Medical/dental/vision benefits

Flex Spending Account

Company provided short-term disability

Life insurance

Commuter benefits

Paid Time Off (PTO)

11 Paid 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’ll work hands-on with AWS, Databricks, Terraform, and GitHub Actions while partnering with engineering and security teams to automate, optimize, and strengthen our data platform. This role offers a fixed-duration contract with transparency about updates and future opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field with 4+ years of experience or equivalent professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, deployment, and operations of cloud infrastructure supporting enterprise data platforms, analytics workloads, and AI/ML capabilities across development, validation, and production environments.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to provision, manage, and standardize AWS and Databricks resources.
• Develop and maintain reusable Terraform modules and automation patterns for Databricks workspaces, Unity Catalog resources, networking components, IAM roles, S3 storage, KMS encryption, service principals, and platform integrations.
• Administer and support Databricks environments, including workspace configuration, account-level settings, Unity Catalog governance, metastore configuration, external locations, storage credentials, service credentials, clusters, jobs, secrets, and access controls.
• Manage Databricks platform migrations, upgrades, and architectural changes while ensuring minimal disruption to users and downstream integrations.
• Design and implement secure AWS architectures including VPC networking, private connectivity, VPC endpoints, IAM policies, cross-account access, S3 architectures, encryption, and least-privilege access patterns.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to automate infrastructure deployments, validation, security checks, operational workflows, and platform management tasks.
• Develop automation tooling using Python, Bash, and cloud APIs to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual platform administration.
• Support enterprise identity and access management patterns including user provisioning, groups, service principals, OAuth/PAT authentication, workload identities, and automated permission management.
• Implement and maintain observability and audit logging solutions for cloud and Databricks environments, including integration with enterprise monitoring platforms such as Splunk.
• Design and support secure data platform integrations including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Delta Sharing, external locations, data access controls, and consumer-facing data products.
• Support AI/ML platform capabilities by enabling services such as MLflow, Databricks AI tooling, AWS Bedrock, foundation model integrations, and GenAI workloads.
• Partner with data engineering, analytics, security, and application teams to troubleshoot complex platform issues and establish scalable engineering standards.
• Lead technical investigations, proof-of-concepts, and platform improvements focused on reliability, security, automation, and developer experience.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, onboarding guides, architecture diagrams, operational runbooks, and self-service tooling for internal teams and external consumers.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement efforts for production data platform services.
• Other relevant duties as assigned and qualified/trained to perform.

Skills

AWS Cloud

Databricks

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Python

Bash

CI/CD

IAM & Security

Unity Catalog

Delta Lake

Education

Bachelor's degree + 4+ years

Tools

Terraform Modules

Databricks Workspace

Unity Catalog

S3

KMS

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’ll work hands-on with AWS, Databricks, Terraform, and GitHub Actions while partnering with engineering and security teams to automate, optimize, and strengthen our data platform. This role offers a fixed-duration contract with transparency about updates and future opportunities.