Cloud Engineer

Sanford Rose JFSPartners is currently seeking a Cloud Engineer for a full-time position in Rochester Michigan. Our client is a scaling a cutting-edge, cloud-native platform that enables modern, data-driven manufacturing environments. Key Responsibilities Cloud Infrastructure & Reliability Manage and enhance cloud environments across production, staging, and development (AWS / Kubernetes) Design and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions Lead incident response efforts and drive root cause analysis with a focus on continuous improvement Oversee backup strategies, disaster recovery planning, and business continuity Conduct capacity planning and optimize system performance Automation & Infrastructure Engineering Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code solutions (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar) Automate provisioning, deployments, and environment lifecycle processes Continuously identify opportunities to reduce manual effort through automation Manage environment configurations, secrets, and version control practices Security & Compliance Implement secure access controls following least-privilege principles Support vulnerability remediation, patching, and dependency management Assist with compliance initiatives (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.) Ensure proper auditing, logging, and data retention standards Technical Environment Kubernetes (clusters, autoscaling, Helm, service mesh concepts) AWS services across compute, networking, and storage Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform preferred) Observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, CloudWatch, New Relic, etc.) CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Bitbucket, Bamboo, etc.) Linux administration and troubleshooting Site Reliability Engineering concepts (SLIs, SLOs, MTTR, RTO/RPO) Benefits Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance 401(k)