Senior Cloud Platform Engineer: Build Secure, Self-Service Infra

Career Techniques; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Career Techniques is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to design and deliver cross‑cloud infrastructure across Azure, AWS, and on‑prem systems. You will build shared Terraform modules, enforce secure defaults, and enable self‑service environments with policy as code.

You’ll also own troubleshooting, automation, and robust documentation. You’ll work from design through production, collaborating with architecture, security, and operations teams to raise the bar on reliability and security

Qualifications

• 5+ years building cloud infrastructure in production.
• Built Terraform modules that other teams used; able to discuss versioning, testing, and releases.
• Strong networking: routing, DNS, private connectivity, and hybrid links.
• Identity and access in both clouds; RBAC, SCPs, cross‑account trust, and IAM policies.
• CI/CD for infrastructure; GitHub Actions with OIDC federation.
• Methodical troubleshooting using Activity Log, CloudTrail, flow logs, and policy simulation.
• Security-first habits: least privilege, no secrets in code, logging and audit by default.
• Producing design docs, runbooks, and post‑incident write-ups.

Responsibilities

• Own platform design-to-production, building shared modules and secure defaults.
• Troubleshoot complex issues independently and document fixes for future incidents.
• Automate infrastructure, improve security, and raise the organization’s documentation standards.
• Collaborate across Azure, AWS, and on‑prem environments to deliver consistent platforms.
• Contribute to on‑call rotations and incident postmortems with actionable improvements.

Skills

Azure

AWS

Terraform

Networking

Security

CI/CD

Troubleshooting

Documentation

GitHub Actions

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terratest

OPA

Conftest

Kubernetes

Job description

Career Techniques is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to design and deliver cross‑cloud infrastructure across Azure, AWS, and on‑prem systems. You will build shared Terraform modules, enforce secure defaults, and enable self‑service environments with policy as code.

You’ll also own troubleshooting, automation, and robust documentation. You’ll work from design through production, collaborating with architecture, security, and operations teams to raise the bar on reliability and security