Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Healy World; Edmond (OK); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Development dollars

Job summary

Life.Church seeks a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to ensure the integrity, performance, and cost-effectiveness of our cloud-based infrastructure supporting its applications and platforms. You will oversee software development for automation, perform regular maintenance, and respond to site reliability incidents.

Responsibilities include monitoring, incident response, security controls, and cost stewardship while researching best practices and mentoring Site Reliability Engineers.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of related work experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science preferred.
• Professional cloud engineering certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain software to automate infrastructure operations and deployments.
• Monitor cloud infrastructure performance and cost-effectiveness.
• Respond to incident escalations and drive site reliability.
• Define and enforce DevOps processes and infrastructure standards.
• Provide training to Site Reliability Engineers on technologies and best practices.
• Interact with vendors to evaluate solutions and negotiate contracts.

Skills

Communication

Organization

Explain complex processes

Initiative

Team collaboration

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Cloud certifications

DevOps practices

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 the development of software, the performance of regular maintenance, and respond to escalated site reliability issues. The Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer is also responsible for researching industry best practices and stewarding resources for the team.

What You'll Do

• 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.

Skills Needed to Succeed

• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills to maintain relationships and partnerships.
• Maintain a systematic and organized approach to completing assignments accurately, thoroughly, and on time.
• Clearly explain complicated and detailed processes in a concise and simple way.
• Ability to self‑motivate, take initiative, make independent decisions, and solve problems.
• 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 the use of 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 2× annual salary at no cost. Additional life insurance coverage is available to purchase.
• Short‑Term and Long‑Term disability is 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!