Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - AWS, Terraform & SRE

Luxoft; Texas; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer in Texas with deep AWS expertise. You will design, implement, secure, automate, and operate highly available cloud infrastructure across internal and client environments.

Strong focus on production reliability, automation, observability, and security. You will collaborate with Azure/GCP teams, implement IaC with Terraform, build CI/CD pipelines, and drive cost optimization and resilience initiatives.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT/infrastructure engineering experience.
• 5+ years of strong hands-on AWS experience.
• Deep hands-on experience designing, implementing, troubleshooting, and supporting production AWS environments.
• Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix administration, OS configuration, troubleshooting, and shell scripting.
• Strong understanding of AWS networking, security, cloud architecture, and high-availability principles.
• Strong experience with Terraform / Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python and/or Shell.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes/EKS.
• Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, and SRE practices.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability platforms such as Splunk, CloudWatch, and OpenTelemetry.
• Strong experience managing high-severity production incidents and performing deep technical RCA.
• Experience with DR, BCP, RTO/RPO, and resilience solutions.
• Experience with messaging middleware such as IBM MQ/ActiveMQ/JMS.
• Experience with AWS cost optimization / FinOps.
• Working knowledge of Azure and/or GCP.
• Experience in regulated, enterprise, client-facing environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the operational health, availability, performance, and reliability of AWS cloud environments.
• Lead resolution of high-severity production incidents and conduct client bridge calls.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, application, and cloud-platform issues.
• Lead technical RCA for major incidents and drive corrective actions to completion.
• Identify recurring incidents and implement permanent engineering solutions.
• Establish and maintain cloud operational standards, guardrails, and runbooks.
• Ensure service requests and operational activities meet defined SLAs.
• Support Change Management and on-call rotations.
• Collaborate with Development, Security, Network, Architecture, DevOps, Product teams.

Skills

AWS

Terraform / IaC

Python / Shell

Docker / Kubernetes

Cloud security

DevOps / SRE

CI/CD

Monitoring / Observability

Incident management

Multi-cloud (Azure/GCP)

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Shell scripting

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes / EKS

OpenTelemetry

Splunk

CloudWatch

Job description

Luxoft is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer in Texas with deep AWS expertise. You will design, implement, secure, automate, and operate highly available cloud infrastructure across internal and client environments.

Strong focus on production reliability, automation, observability, and security. You will collaborate with Azure/GCP teams, implement IaC with Terraform, build CI/CD pipelines, and drive cost optimization and resilience initiatives.