Advancing the genomics sector through custom software solutions.
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Location
Washington + 11 moreAll locations: Washington | Oregon | California | Nevada | Idaho | Utah | Arizona | Montana | Wyoming | Colorado | New Mexico | Canada
Posted
70 days ago
Salary
$78 - $101 / hour
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Semaphore Solutions
• Monitor, respond to, and resolve production incidents and operational issues • Manage routine operational tasks that currently consume team capacity (deployments, configuration changes, access management, maintenance windows) • Participate in on-call rotation: Share responsibility for after-hours production support • Work with support and development teams to troubleshoot and resolve platform issues • Execute and validate infrastructure changes in production environments • Update and improve documentation for operational procedures • Handle patches, upgrades, certificate renewals, and other recurring operational tasks • Monitor system health, respond to alerts, and maintain SLAs • Spot repetitive manual work and build automation to eliminate it • Create scripts, utilities, and self-service tools to reduce operational burden • Improve observability to catch issues before they become incidents • Reduce friction and manual steps in release and deployment workflows • Enable developers to handle routine tasks without infrastructure team involvement • Convert manual procedures into automated, repeatable infrastructure code (Terraform) • Leave behind improved runbooks, automation, and processes • Help quantify operational burden and demonstrate reduction over time • Free up permanent team members for strategic initiatives • Support development teams' infrastructure needs and unblock their work • Capture operational knowledge and procedures that exist only in people's heads • Provide clear documentation and knowledge transfer for systems and automation you build • Participate in team rituals: Standups, retrospectives, and planning to stay aligned with team priorities
Job Requirements
- 5-8 years of experience in infrastructure, platform, SRE, or DevOps engineering
- Strong operational background: Experience managing production systems and handling incidents
- Proven toil reduction skills: Track record of identifying repetitive work and automating it away
- Strong expertise with cloud infrastructure (AWS strongly preferred)
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform required)
- Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, Nomad, or similar)
- Experience with service mesh and service discovery (Consul, Istio, or similar)
- Experience with secrets management (Vault, Secrets Manager, or similar)
- Strong understanding of monitoring, alerting, and observability
- Comfortable with on-call work: Experience with incident response and production support
- Proven ability to onboard quickly and become productive in new environments
- Strong troubleshooting skills: Can diagnose complex system issues under pressure
- Self-directed work style: Minimal supervision required for operational work
- Bias for automation: Natural instinct to eliminate manual work.
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