Senior Cloud Platform Engineer — AWS, Terraform, CI/CD

Exelixis, Inc.; Alameda (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k plan

Medical, dental & vision coverage

Life & disability insurance

Flexible spending accounts

Discretionary annual bonus

Job summary

Exelixis, Inc. seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to design and enhance a cloud platform with automation tools and CI/CD pipelines. You will collaborate with security, platform, and application teams to enable scalable, reliable cloud services on AWS.

You will lead complex initiatives, mentor engineers, and ensure platform quality, observability, and cost efficiency through best practices and automation.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of cloud infrastructure experience in production environments.
• Experience in SOX/FDA-regulated environments is a plus.
• Proficiency with AWS services: EC2, VPC, S3, EBS, Route 53, IAM, KMS, LB, Auto Scaling.
• IaC experience with Terraform and CI/CD tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end development from ideation through CI/CD, security scanning, and production monitoring.
• Define cloud platform strategy and roadmap in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Mentor junior engineers and drive best practices across teams.
• Own incident response and post-mortems for high-impact issues.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams and external stakeholders on technical matters.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Scripting (Python/PowerShell/Bash)

DevOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

Education

Master's degree in a relevant field

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Associate degree

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

Ansible

Job description

Exelixis, Inc. seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to design and enhance a cloud platform with automation tools and CI/CD pipelines. You will collaborate with security, platform, and application teams to enable scalable, reliable cloud services on AWS.

You will lead complex initiatives, mentor engineers, and ensure platform quality, observability, and cost efficiency through best practices and automation.