Senior Hybrid Cloud Automation Engineer

Tyler Technologies; Herndon (VA); Hybrid; USD 117,345 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Tyler Technologies is seeking a Senior Cloud Ops Engineer to join our team on a hybrid schedule at multiple locations, including Herndon, VA. You will design, implement, and support scalable AWS infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation, build automation and CI/CD pipelines, and partner with product and engineering to minimize downtime across customer environments.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, strong scripting, and the ability to quickly adopt new technologies

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred, or equivalent, in area of specialty.
• 6-8 years' experience in the field or related area.
• Ability to guide a team of admins through a project to completion and directs work of others.
• Ability to identify, develop & document business requirements, technical requirements and functional designs.
• Administer AWS infrastructure including VPC, EC2, IAM, EBS, Security Groups, Auto Scaling, and RDS.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop infrastructure solutions to support business functions, processes, and applications.
• Maintain and build infrastructure to standards, performing updates and upgrades to environments, tools and scripts.
• Monitor and acknowledge alerts and provide root cause analysis.
• Develop, evaluate, and make recommendations for alternative infrastructure solutions.
• Implement and manage AWS infrastructure using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or other IaC tools.
• Leverage AWS services such as EC2, VPC, ALB/NLB, Route53, S3, Lambda, Systems Manager, Step Functions, and Image Builder for scalable, repeatable environments.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions) to automate testing, deployment, and rollback processes.
• Work closely with product and engineering teams to plan deployments, manage upgrades, and ensure consistency across multiple customer instances.
• Work with teams to ensure minimal downtime and swift recovery from deployment issues.
• Perform root‑cause analysis on production incidents and implement preventive measures.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Automation

VPC

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub

Datadog

CloudWatch

Job description

Tyler Technologies is seeking a Senior Cloud Ops Engineer to join our team on a hybrid schedule at multiple locations, including Herndon, VA. You will design, implement, and support scalable AWS infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation, build automation and CI/CD pipelines, and partner with product and engineering to minimize downtime across customer environments.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, strong scripting, and the ability to quickly adopt new technologies