Cloud Engineer

Role: Cloud EngineerLocation: Irvine, CA (on-Site)Rate- $50 - $52/hr on W2About the Role:Our Cloud Engineers design, build, and support secure, high-availability cloud environments that power our customer's transformation initiatives. Working within cross-functional delivery teams, you'll apply best-practice automation (IaC, CI/CD, DevSecOps) to migrate, modernize, and optimize workloads on AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud that meet rigorous performance, security, and cost-efficiency targets.Key Responsibilities:Implement landing zones, VPC/VNet networking, IAM, and security baselines.Provision and configure compute, storage, and database services using IaC IDevelop and maintain pipeline automation for app and infrastructure deployments.Design and package applications with latest containerization and orchestration.Configure logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting - apply SRE practices.Produce cost-and-capacity reports with FinOps tooling.Produce well-structured design documents, diagrams, and hand-over guides.Qualifications:Around 10 years experience in cloud solutions on at least one CSP (AWS, Azure, GCP).Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or similar.Proficiency with Terraform or equivalent IaC tool and a one scripting language.Working knowledge of container runtime fundamentals.Experience building CI/CD pipelines and integrating DevSecOps controlsFamiliarity with monitoring/observability stacks and incident-management processes.Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and customer-facing communication skills.Cloud certifications on at least one CSP (AWS, Azure, GCP).Experience with serverless services (Lambda, Cloud Functions), event-driven architectures (SNS/SQS, Event Hub, Pub/Sub), and microservice patterns.Knowledge of compliance frameworks (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI) and security hardening.Exposure to data-platform services and AI/ML tooling.