Senior Cloud Infra Engineer: AWS/Azure, Terraform

Us Bank; Hopkins (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a seasoned cloud infrastructure engineer to design, build, and support scalable cloud solutions across AWS and/or Azure.

You will develop IaC with Terraform and other tools, automate operational tasks with Python, and enforce governance via Policy-as-Code. The role includes building CI/CD pipelines, collaborating with security and platform teams, and driving reliability and cost optimization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• Five to six years of relevant experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS or Azure, including compute, storage, networking, and cloud platform services.
• Advanced expertise in Terraform for infrastructure provisioning, automation, and lifecycle management.
• Proficiency in Python scripting and automation for cloud operations and platform engineering.
• Experience with at least one additional IaC/configuration tool such as Ansible, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Bicep, ARM, Chef, or Puppet.
• Hands-on experience implementing Checkov, Policy-as-Code, governance controls, and compliance automation.
• Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines in GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, debugging, incident response, and root cause analysis skills across cloud and platform environments.
• Knowledge of Well-Architected principles, security best practices, observability platforms (Datadog preferred), cost optimization, and multi-environment deployment strategies.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and support cloud infrastructure solutions across AWS and/or Azure environments.
• Develop, maintain, and optimize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and additional configuration management tools.
• Create automation solutions and operational tooling using Python to improve platform efficiency and reliability.
• Implement Policy-as-Code and compliance validation practices using Checkov and cloud governance frameworks.
• Build, maintain, and enhance CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure, platform, and production issues using Well-Architected Framework best practices.
• Drive platform reliability, operational excellence, documentation standards, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, and platform teams to deliver scalable, secure, and highly available cloud solutions.

Skills

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

Terraform

Python scripting

Policy-as-Code

CI/CD pipelines

Troubleshooting & incident response

Well-Architected framework & security

Observability (Datadog)

Education

Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Bicep

ARM

Chef

Puppet

GitHub

GitLab

Bitbucket

Datadog

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking a seasoned cloud infrastructure engineer to design, build, and support scalable cloud solutions across AWS and/or Azure.

You will develop IaC with Terraform and other tools, automate operational tasks with Python, and enforce governance via Policy-as-Code. The role includes building CI/CD pipelines, collaborating with security and platform teams, and driving reliability and cost optimization.