Sr. Cloud Engineer

Digital Realty; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Life and AD&D insurance

401k match

Disability benefits

Wellness programs

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid time off

Holidays

Job summary

Digital Realty in Atlanta is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, implement, secure, and optimize enterprise cloud infrastructure across multi-cloud environments. You will partner with infrastructure, network, security, development, and operations teams to deliver scalable, highly available cloud solutions for critical business applications.

You will lead cloud initiatives, mentor engineers, and collaborate with application and security teams to ensure governance, compliance, and optimized

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in infrastructure or cloud engineering.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and Azure (required).
• Working knowledge of OCI and GCP in production environments.
• Strong understanding of networking, IAM, and security controls.
• Experience with Linux and/or Windows server workloads.
• Scripting skills (PowerShell, Bash, Python preferred).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines for cloud deployments.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain multi-cloud architectures across AWS, Azure, OCI, and GCP.
• Develop cloud landing zones aligned with security, governance, and compliance standards.
• Support hybrid and multi-region deployments for enterprise workloads.
• Evaluate and recommend cloud-native services and architectural patterns.
• Build and maintain IaC using Terraform, Bicep, ARM, or CloudFormation.
• Automate cloud provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management.
• Enforce security best practices (IAM, network security, encryption, logging).
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize cloud environments; design for high availability and DR.

Skills

Networking

IAM

Scripting

CI/CD

Monitoring & Logging

Cloud Architecture

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

Job description

Your role

The Senior Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, securing, and optimizing enterprise cloud infrastructure and platform services across multi-cloud environments. This role partners closely with infrastructure, network, security, development, and operations teams to deliver scalable, highly available, and resilient cloud solutions that support critical business applications and services.

Job Description

Position Title: Senior Cloud Engineer

The Senior Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, securing, and optimizing enterprise cloud infrastructure and platform services across multi-cloud environments. This role partners closely with infrastructure, network, security, development, and operations teams to deliver scalable, highly available, and resilient cloud solutions that support critical business applications and services.

What You’ll Do

Cloud Engineering

• Design, implement, and maintain multi‑cloud architectures across AWS, Azure, OCI, and GCP
• Develop cloud landing zones aligned with security, governance, and compliance standards
• Support hybrid and multi‑region deployments for enterprise workloads
• Evaluate and recommend cloud‑native services and architectural patterns

Automation & Infrastructure as Code

• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as:
• Terraform, Bicep, ARM, CloudFormation
• Automate cloud provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management
• Standardize repeatable deployment patterns and templates

Security, Governance & Compliance

• Implement cloud security best practices (IAM, network security, encryption, logging)
• Enforce governance using:
• Azure Policy, AWS Organizations / SCPs, GCP Org Policies, OCI policies
• Partner with security teams on audits, controls, and regulatory compliance
• Support vulnerability remediation and security posture management

Operations & Reliability

• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize cloud environments
• Design for high availability, disaster recovery, and resiliency
• Support incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement
• Optimize performance and cloud costs (FinOps practices)

Collaboration & Leadership

• Act as a technical lead for complex cloud initiatives
• Mentor junior engineers and review designs and code
• Collaborate with application, networking, IAM, and security teams
• Provide clear technical guidance to both engineers and stakeholders

What You’ll Need

Core Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in infrastructure or cloud engineering
• Hands-on experience with AWS and Azure (required)
• Working knowledge of OCI and GCP in production environments
• Strong understanding of:
• Networking (VPC/VNet design, routing, DNS, firewalls)
• Identity & Access Management (IAM, RBAC, federated identity)
• Experience with Linux and/or Windows server workloads

Automation & Tooling

• Strong scripting skills (PowerShell, Bash, Python preferred)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines for cloud deployments
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (native or third‑party)

Enterprise Experience

• Experience operating cloud platforms at scale
• Understanding of compliance, governance, and security controls
• Ability to work in regulated or audit‑driven environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Cloud certifications (one or more):
• AWS Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)
• Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect
• Google Cloud Professional certifications
• OCI Architect certifications
• Experience with:
• Kubernetes (AKS, EKS, GKE, OKE)
• Hybrid connectivity, ExpressRoute / Direct Connect / VPN
• Defender, Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
• Prior experience in global or multi‑region environments

A Bit About Us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter .

A Bit About Our Team

Our IT team is at the heart of our business. We develop infrastructures, design and build networks, support servers and provide the first line of support by delivering rich connectivity for our customers. With new data centers coming online all the time, it’s a rapidly changing technical environment so our team is always ready to innovate and take the lead on projects. We constantly develop, deploy and support vital networks and data services that drive business performance and improve life for customers around the globe.

What We Can Offer You

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.

Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.

Health and Safety

Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals - they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.

Our Compensation Philosophy

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.

Our published pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full‑time position determined by role, level, and geographical location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including but not limited to job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training. Moreover, an employee’s total compensation package varies by role and may include salary, cash bonus or commissions, and equity awards not quantified below.

Compensation range $120,000 – $140,000. This compensation range represents the Company’s good faith belief as to what it will pay as a base salary for this position at the time of this posting.

Benefits: For this role, Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, 401k match, disability benefits, wellness and education benefits, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, holidays, and more.