Senior Cloud Engineer: Secure, Scalable Infra & CI/CD

Tractian; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium Medical, Dental, Vision

PTO: 15 days

401(k) Retirement Plan

Wellhub Membership

Fully funded trip after 4 years

Job summary

Tractian is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to join our Cloud Engineering team in Chicago. You will be responsible for safeguarding the companys cloud infrastructure across AWS and OCI, with occasional projects in GCP and Azure, focusing on automation, security, and observability.

You will lead infrastructure design, CI/CD pipelines, and secure deployments while maintaining Kubernetes clusters and GPU workloads, driving best-practice security and scalable operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on Cloud Engineering/DevSecOps experience.
• Extensive knowledge of AWS and OCI; familiarity with GCP/Azure preferred.
• Strong Kubernetes expertise including cluster management, pod architecture, and GPU workloads; CKA/CKAD a plus.
• Expert in Terraform, Helm, Docker, and AWS ECS.
• Experience with GitHub Actions, GitHub Enterprise, and Cloudflare.
• Proficiency in monitoring with Datadog, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Sentry.
• Solid understanding of security best practices and compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO 27001).
• Strong scripting in Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation.
• Certifications in AWS, OCI, Kubernetes, or related cloud certs are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and secure scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS, OCI, and occasionally GCP/Azure.
• Oversee CI/CD pipelines, enhancing them with GitHub Actions and GitHub Enterprise.
• Maintain and optimize Kubernetes clusters and AWS ECS, including GPU workloads.
• Embed comprehensive security measures and proactive tooling integration.
• Implement observability and monitoring with Datadog, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Sentry.
• Utilize Jira for project management and issue tracking.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to drive secure development practices.
• Address vulnerabilities and security incidents promptly.
• Handle DevOps/SRE intake queues.
• Execute Kubernetes service migrations from AWS EKS to OCI, ensuring workload compatibility and minimal disruption.

Skills

Cloud engineering

DevSecOps

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub Actions

Security practices

Observability

Tools

AWS

OCI

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Docker

Datadog

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Sentry

GitHub Enterprise

Cloudflare

Job description

Tractian is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to join our Cloud Engineering team in Chicago. You will be responsible for safeguarding the companys cloud infrastructure across AWS and OCI, with occasional projects in GCP and Azure, focusing on automation, security, and observability.

You will lead infrastructure design, CI/CD pipelines, and secure deployments while maintaining Kubernetes clusters and GPU workloads, driving best-practice security and scalable operations.