Senior Cloud Platform Engineer: Secure, Multi-Cloud Expert

KLA; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 138,000 - 202,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision care

401K matching

Employee stock purchase program (ESPP)

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

KLA is seeking an experienced Cloud Platform Engineer in Milpitas, CA. You will build and secure scalable cloud platforms across GCP, Azure, and AWS, focusing on GCP/Azure. You’ll modernize applications, implement guardrails, and collaborate with engineering and security teams to strengthen infrastructure.

Minimum eight years in cloud engineering with strong IaC, DevSecOps, and FinOps exposure. Strong communication and cross-team collaboration are essential, along with a degree in CS/CE or

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• Eight (8) years of hands-on cloud platform engineering or infrastructure experience, including ownership and operation of secure production environments.
• Proficiency in at least one major cloud platform (GCP or Azure preferred; AWS in scope).
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, containers, Kubernetes, serverless technologies, and microservices.
• Experience embedding security into IaC and CI/CD pipelines (DevSecOps).
• Working knowledge of cloud governance, monitoring, FinOps, and cost management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable, resilient cloud platforms on IaaS/PaaS across GCP, Azure, and AWS (focus on GCP/Azure).
• Migrate and modernize applications and infrastructure with automation and security improvements.
• Develop secure networking, guardrails, and reference architectures with teams.
• Implement DevSecOps pipelines with security scanning and policy enforcement.
• Shape platform docs, runbooks, and architecture diagrams.

Skills

Cloud platform engineering

GCP

Azure

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

DevSecOps

FinOps

IAM security

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE or related

Tools

Terraform

Azure Bicep/ARM

Google Config Connector

AWS CloudFormation

Job description

KLA is seeking an experienced Cloud Platform Engineer in Milpitas, CA. You will build and secure scalable cloud platforms across GCP, Azure, and AWS, focusing on GCP/Azure. You’ll modernize applications, implement guardrails, and collaborate with engineering and security teams to strengthen infrastructure.

Minimum eight years in cloud engineering with strong IaC, DevSecOps, and FinOps exposure. Strong communication and cross-team collaboration are essential, along with a degree in CS/CE or