Staff Cloud Platform Engineer — IaC & Automation

American Eagle Outfitters; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

American Eagle Outfitters is seeking a Staff Engineer to drive the design, implementation, and evolution of our infrastructure and cloud architecture. You will lead modernization with Infrastructure-as-Code, automate orchestration, and optimize resource efficiency to support enterprise goals.

You will collaborate with engineering leadership to build scalable, self‑service infrastructure platforms, enable CI/CD, and ensure high availability across cloud and on‑prem environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical qualifications.
• 5+ years managing large infrastructures with automation and cloud tech.
• Hands-on with DevOps tooling, IaC, CI/CD, and API integrations.
• Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform stack; Windows and Linux.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop infrastructure components, focusing on cloud services.
• Evolve processes to ensure global scalability and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with Security, Network, and cross-functional teams on best practices.
• Maintain high availability and disaster recovery readiness across environments.
• Transition legacy processes to IaC pipelines for cloud, on‑prem, and edge.
• Manage CI for builds and deployments and set up needed tools.
• Build and operate distributed systems in Google Cloud Platform.
• Drive system lifecycle, licensing, capacity planning, and end‑of‑life strategy.
• Create roadmaps for hardware and software evolution and vendor SLAs.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Bash/Python/PowerShell

DevOps practices

GA (Google Cloud) knowledge

IT risk assessment

Analytical skills

Verbal/written communication

Team mentoring

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Packer

Bitbucket

Bamboo

Ansible Automation Platform

Google Cloud Platform

OpenShift

NetApp/CVO

Job description

American Eagle Outfitters is seeking a Staff Engineer to drive the design, implementation, and evolution of our infrastructure and cloud architecture. You will lead modernization with Infrastructure-as-Code, automate orchestration, and optimize resource efficiency to support enterprise goals.

You will collaborate with engineering leadership to build scalable, self‑service infrastructure platforms, enable CI/CD, and ensure high availability across cloud and on‑prem environments.