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

Syngenta Group; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full Benefit Package (Medical, Dental,

401k plan with company match

Paid Vacation and Holidays

Maternity and Paternity Leave, Educ.ra

Job summary

Syngenta Group, based in Durham, NC, seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer / Technical Lead to drive secure, scalable cloud platforms across AWS, Snowflake, and Kubernetes-enabled ecosystems. You will lead automation, observability, and data enablement while guiding HPC and lab modernization efforts.

The role requires 5+ years in cloud engineering, hands-on expertise in AWS, Terraform Cloud, and Python, and strong stakeholder communication across RDIT and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a relevant technical discipline.
• 5+ years of cloud engineering, DevOps, or related technical field.
• Hands-on AWS and Terraform Cloud engineering experience.
• Hands-on Python coding experience.
• Experience with Snowflake, Datadog, and hybrid infrastructure.
• Ability to lead technical workstreams and communicate with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, and support secure, resilient AWS and hybrid infrastructure.
• Lead infrastructure automation through Terraform Cloud and CI/CD integration.
• Enable and support Snowflake workloads and data platform integrations.
• Establish observability with Datadog and AWS monitoring and incident response.
• Deliver HPC/AI/ML and research computing solutions including SageMaker.
• Lead technical workstreams for laboratory modernization and cross-functional partnerships.

Skills

AWS

Terraform Cloud

Python

Cloud Networking

Security

Leadership

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Snowflake

Datadog

Terraform Cloud

SageMaker

AWS ParallelCluster

Slurm

Job description

Syngenta Group, based in Durham, NC, seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer / Technical Lead to drive secure, scalable cloud platforms across AWS, Snowflake, and Kubernetes-enabled ecosystems. You will lead automation, observability, and data enablement while guiding HPC and lab modernization efforts.

The role requires 5+ years in cloud engineering, hands-on expertise in AWS, Terraform Cloud, and Python, and strong stakeholder communication across RDIT and engineering teams.