Cloud Engineer

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-HavesStrong experience with Terragrunt + Terraform (structuring, refactoring, state management)Proven experience with Ansible at scale for automation and configuration managementHands-on experience running Kubernetes workloads (AWS, GCP, or Azure)What You'll DoBuild and maintain standardized Terragrunt structures across accounts, regions, and environmentsRefactor and migrate Terraform stacks and state with minimal downtime and driftDevelop and scale Ansible automation for system provisioning and application deploymentDesign secure, multi-cloud architectures using RBAC and least-privilege accessEnhance CI/CD and GitOps workflows (GitHub Actions, self-hosted runners, Jenkins)Integrate cloud platforms with tools like Slack, Jira, and internal automation systemsNice to HaveExperience with HashiCorp Vault or similar secrets management toolsProgramming experience (Go, Python)Strong Linux background (RHEL/CentOS/Rocky, Ubuntu)Experience with cloud-init and image automationWhat We ValueOwnership, strong problem-solving, attention to scalability, and a passion for improving developer experience. Ability to collaborate across distributed teams is key.J-18808-Ljbffr