Sr. Staff Cloud Engineer

bloomenergy; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Bloom Energy is seeking a Sr. Staff Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable cloud and hybrid infrastructure. You will focus on AWS, IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation, and establish best practices across CI/CD, security, and observability.

Based in San Jose, CA, you will mentor engineers and drive reliability across critical systems. You will partner with security, compliance, and engineering teams to ensure scalable, secure, and cost-optimized platforms while shaping Bloom

Qualifications

• Degree in CS/IS/Engineering; master's preferred.
• 10+ years in cloud/infrastructure/DevOps roles.
• 3+ years in senior/lead roles.
• Hands-on AWS, security, resiliency, and production ops.
• Experience in multi-cloud environments desirable.
• Proven production environments for enterprise apps.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate scalable cloud/hybrid infra for enterprise apps and AI/data platforms.
• Lead IaC adoption with Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Develop standards and reusable infra modules.
• Build observability with metrics, logs, dashboards, alerts.
• Drive SRE practices: SLIs, incident management, capacity planning.
• Lead readiness reviews and post-incident analyses.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and security controls in workflows.
• Collaborate with security/compliance teams on governance.

Skills

Cloud engineering

AWS cloud services

Cloud architecture

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Monitoring/Observability

Security & governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitLab

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Job description

At Bloom Energy, our vision for a world powered by clean, reliable, and affordable energy is more than just a dream-we're making it reality. For over two decades, we've been at the forefront of the global energy transition, pioneering solutions that empower critical industries to thrive in a rapidly digitizing, energy-intensive world. From revolutionizing power for AI-driven data centers to ensuring resilience for hospitals, electric grids, manufacturing facilities, and utilities, our solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) and solid oxide electrolyzer (SOEC) technologies are redefining what's possible by delivering energy abundance for all. With more than 30,000 fuel cell modules deployed worldwide, we are the trusted partner for Fortune 100 companies and innovators alike. Our cutting-edge solutions enable unparalleled "time-to-power" capabilities, reliability, and sustainability, ensuring our customers remain ahead in a world where soaring energy demand and intensifying energy scarcity are rapidly becoming the new norm.

We are looking for a Sr. Staff Cloud Engineer to join our Cloud Engineering and Infrastructure team in one of today's most important technology areas. This role will be responsible for designing, building, automating, and operating scalable cloud and hybrid infrastructure supporting enterprise applications, production workloads, AI/data platforms, and modern DevOps ecosystems. This role will report to Cloud Engineering leadership and will be based in San Jose, CA.

Role and Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud and hybrid infrastructure supporting enterprise applications, production workloads, AI/data platforms, and CI/CD ecosystems.
• Architect highly available, resilient, secure, and cost-optimized solutions across cloud platforms, with deep focus on AWS.
• Lead adoption and operationalization of Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, and related automation frameworks.
• Develop cloud platform standards, reusable infrastructure modules, engineering patterns, and best practices to improve consistency, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Build and mature observability capabilities using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and automated alerting to improve operational visibility and incident response.
• Drive adoption of SRE practices including service level objectives, error budgets, incident management, operational reviews, capacity planning, and reliability improvement.
• Lead production readiness reviews, root cause analysis, performance optimization, resiliency planning, and operational risk assessments for critical systems.
• Design, build, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using modern DevOps, automation, and GitOps practices.
• Integrate security, compliance, and operational controls into infrastructure provisioning and deployment workflows.
• Implement automated remediation, rollback, guardrails, and self-healing infrastructure patterns to improve reliability and reduce operational risk.
• Establish and enforce operational standards for monitoring, patching, change management, disaster recovery, and production support.
• Partner closely with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, Application, and Engineering teams to align cloud platforms with enterprise security, hardening, governance, and regulatory requirements.
• Evaluate emerging cloud, automation, AI/ML infrastructure, and platform engineering capabilities to support Bloom Energy's modernization and scalability goals.
• Mentor cloud, DevOps, and infrastructure engineers while promoting engineering excellence, ownership, documentation, and continuous improvement.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident escalation processes for critical production systems.

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field. Master's degree preferred.
• At least 10 years of experience in cloud, infrastructure, platform engineering, or DevOps , including 3 or more years in a senior, staff, principal, or technical leadership role .
• Deep hands-on expertise in AWS cloud services , cloud architecture , cloud networking , security , resiliency , and production operations .
• Experience with Azure , Google Cloud , Oracle Cloud , or multi-cloud environments is strongly preferred .
• Proven experience designing and operating mission-critical production environments supporting enterprise applications and services .
• Strong experience in cloud networking and network architecture, including VPC , Transit Gateway , Cloud WAN , Direct Connect , firewalls , routing , and BGP .
• Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools , including Terraform and CloudFormation .
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps platforms such as Jenkins , GitLab , GitHub Actions , ArgoCD , or similar tools .
• Experience with Kubernetes , containers , and modern platform engineering patterns .
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Prometheus , Grafana , Datadog , ELK , Clo