Staff Cloud Engineer — Platform, SRE & Automation

Bloom Energy; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 156,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Bloom Energy is seeking a Staff Cloud Engineer to join our Cloud Engineering and Infrastructure team in San Jose, CA. The role focuses on designing, building, automating, and operating scalable cloud and hybrid infrastructure supporting enterprise apps, AI/data platforms, and modern DevOps ecosystems.

You will lead IaC adoption, observability, and SRE practices to ensure reliability and efficiency. Qualified candidates will have 10+ years in cloud/DevOps, deep AWS expertise, and strong skills in

Qualifications

• 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+ years in a senior/lead role.
• Deep hands-on expertise in AWS cloud services, cloud architecture, cloud networking, security, resiliency, and production operations.
• Experience with multi-cloud environments (Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud) preferred.
• Strong experience with Terraform and CloudFormation for IaC.
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps platforms (Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
• Kubernetes, containers, and modern platform engineering patterns.
• Monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch).
• Strong scripting/automation skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• IAM, security, compliance controls, encryption, resiliency engineering, governance.
• Experience implementing SRE practices, incident management, runbooks, and reliability programs.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to lead large-scale cross-functional initiatives from strategy to execution.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Cloud architecture

AWS

Infrastructure as Code

SRE

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Monitoring/Observability

Security/compliance

Python/Bash/PowerShell

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Eng or related field

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitLab

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

CloudWatch

Job description

Bloom Energy is seeking a Staff Cloud Engineer to join our Cloud Engineering and Infrastructure team in San Jose, CA. The role focuses on designing, building, automating, and operating scalable cloud and hybrid infrastructure supporting enterprise apps, AI/data platforms, and modern DevOps ecosystems.

You will lead IaC adoption, observability, and SRE practices to ensure reliability and efficiency. Qualified candidates will have 10+ years in cloud/DevOps, deep AWS expertise, and strong skills in