Senior/Staff Cloud Engineer

Join Sovrn as a Senior/Staff Cloud Engineer, where you'll design large-scale AWS architectures, lead the adoption of Infrastructure as Code, and serve as an escalation point for complex production incidents. You'll mentor engineers, translate architectural decisions for non-technical stakeholders, and shape the development of our data cloud platform. Enjoy first-class health benefits, flexible vacation, retirement benefits, and a supportive work environment that values your strengths and encourages growth.

• Design and implement large-scale, enterprise-grade AWS architectures, ensuring they are secure, scalable, and cost-effective.
• Lead the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation best practices across teams, developing internal Terraform modules and architecting CI/CD pipelines.
• Serve as an escalation point for complex production incidents, applying expert-level troubleshooting skills to diagnose and resolve issues.

• Demonstrated experience designing agent skills that will reduce the administrative drag of the engineering team. Champions for AI integration from inception and responsible for adoption into production environments
• Experience designing observability systems (metrics, logs, alerting) and applying data-driven approaches to incident management, root cause analysis, and operational improvement
• Deep proficiency in AWS cloud services (VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, etc) with a track record of designing and owning secure, scalable, production-ready architectures using cloud-native design principles
• Deep familiarity with industry leading architecture and administration of Peta-scale data lakehouse platforms, such as Databricks, Snowflake, or similar
• Strong communication skills: ability to present complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences, negotiate cross-team requirements and timelines, and produce architectural documentation that others build from
• Extensive hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) — building reusable internal modules, implementing policy-as-code, and architecting CI/CD pipelines for full infrastructure automation
• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect – Professional or DevOps Engineer) are a strong plus
• In-depth knowledge of cloud networking, security best practices, and Identity and Access Management; experience enforcing governance through automated policy checks
• We expect you to learn new things in this role and encourage you to apply if your experience is close to what we're looking for