Senior Cloud Engineer & Tech Lead - AWS, Terraform, HPC

Talentify; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work options

Medical, Dental & Vision benefits

401k with company match

Job summary

Syngenta seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer / Technical Lead in Durham, NC to provide hands-on leadership across cloud platforms, data enablement, infrastructure automation, observability, HPC/AI, and laboratory modernization.

The role requires 5+ years in cloud engineering with advanced AWS and Terraform Cloud skills, plus Python and Snowflake experience. You’ll guide technical workstreams and collaborate with diverse teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a technical discipline.
• 5+ years of relevant technical experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or related field.
• Advanced hands-on AWS and Terraform Cloud engineering experience.
• Advanced hands-on Python coding experience.
• Experience supporting Snowflake, Datadog, hybrid infrastructure, and container platforms.
• Strong knowledge of cloud networking, IAM, security, storage, databases, and operational resilience.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical workstreams and communicate with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, and support secure, scalable AWS and hybrid-infrastructure solutions across compute, storage, networking, identity, security, databases, and container platforms.
• Lead infrastructure automation through Terraform Cloud, including reusable modules and CI/CD integration.
• Enable and support Snowflake workloads by designing integrations for networking, data movement, monitoring, governance, and operational readiness.
• Establish observability and reliability practices using Datadog and AWS monitoring, including dashboards, alerts, logging, and incident-response improvements.
• Deliver technical solutions for HPC/AI/ML and research computing using AWS ParallelCluster, Slurm, FSx, SageMaker, and scalable workloads.
• Lead laboratory modernization by translating device/workflow needs into secure cloud/network/storage designs.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, mentoring, and risk/cost-optimization management.
• Partner with engineering, research, data, cybersecurity, network, and leadership stakeholders to drive adoption of standards.

Skills

AWS

Terraform Cloud

Python

Snowflake

Datadog

SageMaker

Slurm

GPU workloads

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant technical discipline

Tools

Terraform Cloud

AWS

Snowflake

Datadog

SageMaker

Kubernetes

Linux

Job description

Syngenta seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer / Technical Lead in Durham, NC to provide hands-on leadership across cloud platforms, data enablement, infrastructure automation, observability, HPC/AI, and laboratory modernization.

The role requires 5+ years in cloud engineering with advanced AWS and Terraform Cloud skills, plus Python and Snowflake experience. You’ll guide technical workstreams and collaborate with diverse teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions.