Senior Cloud Engineer

3Core Systems, Inc

. Design and deploy secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient cloud architectures across AWS and/or Azure .

Posted 11/4/2026contractRemote • United StatesSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and deploying secure, scalable cloud architectures on AWS and Azure, with a strong focus on infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud security principles. Proficient in optimizing cloud environments for performance, cost efficiency, and compliance with regulatory standards.

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AWS Cloud EngineeringAzure Cloud EngineeringInfrastructure-As-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible)CI/CD Pipeline DevelopmentCloud Security Principles

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Hard Skills

Cloud Architecture DesignInfrastructure-As-CodeCloud NetworkingScripting (Python, Bash)DockerKubernetesVersion Control (Git)Monitoring and ObservabilityCost Optimization (FinOps)Site Reliability Engineering

Soft Skills

Effective CommunicationCollaboration with Stakeholders

Tools & Technologies

TerraformCloudFormationAnsiblePrometheusGrafanaSplunkCloudWatchAzure Monitor

Certifications & Qualifications

AWS CertificationAzure Certification

Industry Keywords

GxP Compliance21 CFR Part 11HIPAA ComplianceRegulated Industry ExperienceAgile Environment

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAWSAzureCloudCyber SecurityDockerGrafanaKubernetesPrometheusPythonSplunkTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and deploy secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient cloud architectures across AWS and/or Azure
Architect and implement cloud networking, compute, storage, and identity constructs
Evaluate and recommend cloud services, architectural patterns, and infrastructure approaches
Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code frameworks using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or equivalent
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for cloud infrastructure and application deployments
Ensure changes are tested, validated, and safely deployed with automated rollback capability
Automate patching, scaling, monitoring, alerting, and cost optimization
Ensure cloud environments comply with Lilly's security standards, regulatory requirements, and data governance policies
Maintain controls for identity management, secrets management, audit logging, and encryption
Monitor cloud security posture and remediate misconfigurations, drift, and policy violations
Integrate CSPM tooling into operational workflows
Partner with Cybersecurity teams on enterprise threat models and regulatory frameworks
Monitor cloud environments for performance, availability, and cost efficiency
Identify waste, right-size resources, and drive FinOps practices
Contribute to platform engineering standards, reference architectures, and guardrails
Troubleshoot cloud infrastructure issues and contribute to post-incident analysis and preventive improvements

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field — or equivalent professional experience
3+ years of hands-on cloud engineering experience in a production enterprise environment
AWS and/or Azure experience required
Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible
Version control experience with Git
Proficiency in Python, Bash, or equivalent scripting languages
Strong understanding of cloud networking and virtualization
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
Strong understanding of cloud security principles
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices in a cloud-native context
AWS or Azure cloud certification strongly preferred
Experience with FinOps and enterprise-scale cloud cost optimization preferred
Familiarity with monitoring and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, CloudWatch, or Azure Monitor preferred
Regulated-industry experience and familiarity with GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, or HIPAA compliance preferred
Production Kubernetes experience, including cluster operations and workload management, preferred
Experience with Site Reliability Engineering or Agent Reliability Engineering preferred
Agile environment experience preferred
Cloud security architecture experience, including IAM design, secrets management, network security groups, and cloud-native security tooling, preferred
Ability to design for least privilege, defense in depth, security, compliance, reliability, and cost efficiency
Ability to communicate effectively with developers and business stakeholders

Benefits

Comp & perks

Contract role with a duration of 6+ months