Cloud Engineer
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Contract to Hire - Hourly W2 - $95-100/hrW2 ONLYNO C2CEligibility Requirement: Must be a U.S. Citizen or Green Card holder (no exceptions) We're hiring a Cloud Engineer (Developer Experience) to help scale modern cloud infrastructure and improve developer workflows across Infrastructure-as-Code, Kubernetes, and CI/CD platforms. This role is hands-on and focused on building reliable, reusable, and secure systems across multi-cloud environments.
Must-Haves:
- Strong experience with Terragrunt + Terraform (structuring, refactoring, state management)
- Proven experience with Ansible at scale for automation and configuration management
- Hands-on experience running Kubernetes workloads (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
What You'll Do:
- Build and maintain standardized Terragrunt structures across accounts, regions, and environments
- Refactor and migrate Terraform stacks and state with minimal downtime and drift
- Develop and scale Ansible automation for system provisioning and application deployment
- Design secure, multi-cloud architectures using RBAC and least-privilege access
- Enhance CI/CD and GitOps workflows (GitHub Actions, self-hosted runners, Jenkins)
- Integrate cloud platforms with tools like Slack, Jira, and internal automation systems
Nice to Have:
- Experience with HashiCorp Vault or similar secrets management tools
- Programming experience (Go, Python)
- Strong Linux background (RHEL/CentOS/Rocky, Ubuntu)
- Experience with cloud-init and image automation
- What We Value
Ownership, strong problem-solving, attention to scalability, and a passion for improving developer experience. Ability to collaborate across distributed teams is key.