Senior Cloud Platform Engineer — AWS & Automation

Exelixis, Inc.; Alameda, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k plan

Medical, dental & vision coverage

Life & disability insurance

Flexible spending accounts

Discretionary annual bonus

Stock purchase program

Long-term incentives

Vacation days

Paid holidays

Sick days

Job summary

Exelixis, Inc. in Alameda, CA seeks a Senior Staff Engineer – Cloud Platform to design cloud-based products, define the platform and automation standards, and provision AWS resources.

You will lead end-to-end development from ideation to production monitoring, and drive improvements in security, performance and observability. The role emphasizes mentoring, cross-functional collaboration, and serving as SME for cloud capabilities while coordinating with application teams to align deployment and

Qualifications

• Advanced AWS knowledge (hosting: EC2, RDS, Systems Manager, IAM)
• Expertise with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools, especially Terraform
• Experience in cloud infrastructure in production, highly available environments

Responsibilities

• Develop technical solutions for complex problems and guide major initiatives
• Lead end-to-end development from ideation through CI/CD, security scanning and monitoring
• Mentor junior engineers and drive cross-functional collaboration
• Document architecture, runbooks and code-level READMEs; own incident response and root cause analysis

Skills

AWS cloud platform expertise (EC2, RDS

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps tooling

Cloud automation

Education

Master's degree in a relevant field

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Associate degree + 11 years experience

Tools

Terraform

IaC tooling

Job description

Exelixis, Inc. in Alameda, CA seeks a Senior Staff Engineer – Cloud Platform to design cloud-based products, define the platform and automation standards, and provision AWS resources.

You will lead end-to-end development from ideation to production monitoring, and drive improvements in security, performance and observability. The role emphasizes mentoring, cross-functional collaboration, and serving as SME for cloud capabilities while coordinating with application teams to align deployment and