Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Life; Edmond (OK); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Generous paid time off

Medical, Dental, Vision insurance

Job summary

Life.Church is seeking a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to ensure reliability, performance, and cost-effectiveness of our cloud platforms supporting Life.Church applications.

You will lead automation, maintain cloud services, and guide incident responses while researching best practices and stewarding team resources. Strong collaboration, leadership, and a growth mindset are essential for this role.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Systematic, organized, and timely in delivering assignments.
• Able to explain complex processes clearly and concisely.
• Self-motivated with initiative and problem-solving ability.
• Collaborates well in teams and can work independently.
• Demonstrated leadership and guidance capabilities.
• 7+ years of relevant technology experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain software to automate infrastructure operations.
• Monitor performance and respond to site reliability issues.
• Define and enforce DevOps standards to minimize downtime.
• Maintain cloud infrastructure monitoring and security controls.
• Research best practices and optimize costs across systems.
• Train and mentor Site Reliability Engineers.
• Coordinate with vendors on solutions and contracts.

Skills

Excellent communication

Organized work style

Explain complex processes simply

Self-motivated

Team collaboration

Leadership

7+ years experience

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Bachelor’s degree in computer science

Cloud engineering certifications preferred

Tools

Cloud certifications

Job description

The YouVersion Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for ensuring the integrity, performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of the cloud-based infrastructure and related systems supporting the applications and platforms operated by Life.Church. This role will oversee and assist with software development, routine maintenance, and response to escalated site reliability issues, as well as research industry best practices and steward resources for the team.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain software to automate and support infrastructure operations and ensure seamless deployments.
• Explore and evaluate solutions to meet business needs that lead to implementing solutions and evaluating the outcome.
• Limit system downtime by defining and enforcing operations and development standards.
• Perform regular maintenance and monitoring for cloud infrastructure systems and services.
• Monitor application performance and service-level indicators to ensure that objectives are met.
• Respond and initiate incident responses for high‑severity site reliability issues.
• Implement and enforce infrastructure and application security controls.
• Research new solutions, improvement areas, and best practices.
• Define, document, and enforce processes and standards around cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices.
• Develop and train Site Reliability Engineers on technologies and best practices.
• Monitor and steward infrastructure and development‑related costs.
• Interact with product vendors to evaluate solutions and negotiate contract agreements.

Qualifications

• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills to maintain relationships and partnerships.
• Maintain a systematic and organized approach to completing assignments accurately, thoroughly, and timely.
• Clearly explain complicated and detailed processes in a concise and simple way.
• Ability to self‑motivate, take initiative, make independent decisions, and problem‑solve.
• Ability to collaborate in a team environment and work independently.
• Strong leadership skills and understanding of developing and guiding others.
• High School Diploma or GED.
• 7+ years of related work experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science preferred.
• Professional certifications in cloud engineering programs preferred.

Benefits We Offer

• Paid parental leave, including maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
• Generous employer‑paid leave for vacation, sick time, and other qualifying reasons.
• Innovative and comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance that provides team members with useful resources and savings to navigate their holistic health.
• Life insurance policy provided for all staff members at 2x annual salary at no cost. Additional life insurance coverage is available to purchase.
• Short‑Term and Long‑Term disability are covered at 100% for full‑time qualified staff members.
• Comprehensive wellness and mental health benefits allow staff to proactively invest in their physical and emotional health.
• Generous 401(k) retirement plan allowing a team member to have up to 12.5% (including employee contribution, employer match, and employer discretionary contribution) contributed into their account in their first year. It doesn’t stop there—the more years on staff, the greater the investment!
• $160 annually in development dollars for team members to invest in their professional growth.
• Casual dress and work environment.
• And much more!

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