Senior Cloud Platform Engineer: Scale & AI-Driven Infra

RC Talent; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

RC Talent is seeking a Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer to lead platform decisions and own outcomes for an AI-enabled cloud infrastructure.

The role focuses on architecting and modernizing cloud environments, reducing complexity, and enabling scale with secure, observable systems. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver resilient, data-driven solutions across AWS/Azure and serverless ecosystems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience across software engineering and infrastructure.
• Extensive hands-on experience managing large-scale production workloads within AWS.
• Architect and support cloud-native infrastructure with IaC.
• Experience with Terraform, Pulumi, or similar IaC tools.
• Deep knowledge of event-driven design, distributed systems, and asynchronous processing.
• Experience building data-ingestion systems using serverless, streams and queues.
• Strong API design, TLS, DNS, IAM, networking and cloud security.
• Experience with SOC 2 environments and GDPR obligations.
• Proven track record supporting production web applications and APIs.
• Knowledge of database architectures including relational, time-series, and object storage.
• Solid observability, logging, monitoring, and deployment automation experience.
• Excellent communication and technical leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and support scalable cloud infrastructure with AWS as the primary platform.
• Design and manage web services, APIs, and data ingestion pipelines.
• Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code via Terraform and related tools.
• Create event-driven architectures for distributed processing with high telemetry.
• Use containerized and serverless approaches where appropriate for scalability.
• Define infrastructure standards for observability, security, cost management, and reliability.
• Contribute to GDPR and SOC 2 compliance efforts.
• Develop secure networking, secrets management, and IAM practices.
• Collaborate with product, AI, backend, and firmware teams to improve scale and performance.
• Evaluate database options and tradeoffs for workload requirements.
• Strengthen CI/CD and broader engineering workflows.
• Assist with incident response and root-cause analysis.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Technical leadership

Strong communication

Autonomy

Problem solving

Tools

AWS

Azure

Terraform

Pulumi

Kubernetes

Docker

Serverless

SQS

Kafka

Kinesis

RabbitMQ

MQTT

PostgreSQL

MySQL

DynamoDB

Redis

TimescaleDB

Job description

RC Talent is seeking a Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer to lead platform decisions and own outcomes for an AI-enabled cloud infrastructure.

The role focuses on architecting and modernizing cloud environments, reducing complexity, and enabling scale with secure, observable systems. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver resilient, data-driven solutions across AWS/Azure and serverless ecosystems.