Senior Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer
Certification: CKA / CKAD certified candidates required
Experience: 7+ years
Remote 100 %
Position Summary
The Senior Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining cloud-hosted services and platforms to support Smile Digital Health’s SaaS offering.
The role includes development and maintenance of deployment artifacts such as Helm charts, Docker container/compose configurations, Infrastructure as Code, and build/deployment/automation pipelines.
The role works closely with platform, infrastructure, architecture, and security teams to ensure cloud deployments are scalable, reliable, secure, and aligned with enterprise architecture patterns.
Responsibilities
Develop, test, and maintain cloud-native RESTful APIs using Python, Go/GoLang, and JavaScript/TypeScript.
Build and manage Docker container images, following best practices for image build, security, cost efficiency, and deployments.
Author, maintain, and version Helm charts for deploying services into Kubernetes/OpenShift environments, including configuration/annotation values, templates, upgrades, and rollback support.
Participate in or build CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment, testing, monitoring, and rollback of SaaS services.
Monitor performance, reliability, and scaling behavior of services; identify bottlenecks and implement solutions such as caching, concurrency, resource limits, and horizontal auto-scaling.
Develop and maintain serverless SaaS components using AWS CDK, Lambda, API Gateway, and ECS/Fargate.
Ensure high availability and fault tolerance through Kubernetes features such as readiness/liveness probes, resource requests/limits, and namespace/networking isolation.
Implement and enhance CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, versioning, and documentation publishing.
Manage in-cluster dependencies such as PostgreSQL, Kafka, Grafana, and Elasticsearch using Helm or Operators.
Collaborate with security, operations, and infrastructure teams to ensure deployments meet security, compliance, logging, monitoring, and auditing requirements.
Troubleshoot and debug issues in production and staging environments. Provide root cause analysis and propose corrective measures.
Maintain clear documentation of architecture, deployment procedures, configuration, and usage of cloud tools.
Requirements
7+ years of professional experience in cloud development or infrastructure engineering roles.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
Proven experience designing and building SaaS applications and multi-cloud solutions.
Understanding of DevOps and hands-on experience with tools including GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, etc.
Working knowledge of public cloud SDKs/APIs such as Azure SDK, AWS SDK, GCP SDK, etc. Boto3 and AWS CDK preferred.
Strong experience building REST or GraphQL APIs in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript.
Solid knowledge of Docker, containerization best practices, and deploying containers in Kubernetes and OpenShift.
Experience authoring and maintaining Helm charts and Operators for complex deployments.
Familiarity with monitoring/logging/tracing tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Elasticsearch/Loki, etc.
Strong understanding of cloud hosting, particularly AWS and Azure, including cloud storage, secrets, and security services.
Familiarity with GitOps tooling and principles.
Working experience with HashiCorp Terraform to build and deploy complex environments.
Ability to work in cross-functional teams and communicate effectively, both written and verbal.
Self-motivated, detail-oriented, with strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.

Work arrangement
Yes