Cloud Engineer

Caris Life Sciences is transforming cancer care and changing lives through precision medicine. The Cloud Engineer will design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud-native infrastructure, focusing on AWS and Kubernetes, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure reliable and secure cloud environments.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and reusable Terraform modules, and design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitLab (GitLab CI/CD), using established patterns and reusable components to support consistent deployments across environments
• Design, deploy, and support Kubernetes environments on AWS EKS, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security of cloud workloads
• Implement and maintain core Kubernetes capabilities such as networking, ingress, storage, and cluster upgrades following established best practices
• Participate in proof-of-concept efforts for new tools and technologies, contributing hands-on implementation and feedback
• Follow and help maintain Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure standards, including upgrade processes, security configurations, and performance tuning
• Collaborate with application and platform teams to support cloud-native application deployments, containerized workloads, and microservices architectures
• Implement and maintain observability solutions using metrics, logs, and alerts to support monitoring, troubleshooting, and operational visibility
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines using established patterns and reusable components to support consistent deployments across environments
• Support cloud security initiatives by implementing access controls, encryption, and compliance requirements according to defined security standards
• Contribute to cloud migration and application modernization efforts by executing migration tasks and validating deployed solutions
• Participate in incident response and on-call rotations, helping diagnose issues, restore services, and improve operational reliability through post-incident learnings

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• 6+ years of experience with Linux systems, cloud engineering, and DevOps practices
• Understanding of cloud technologies, such as AWS or GCP
• Ability to port on-prem python scripts to work in the cloud
• Proficient in Docker & Kubernetes, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems
• Security focused mindset
• Experience with Terraform and Terraform modules
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) infrastructure, including GitLab CI/CD
• A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement and performance bottlenecks across services and levels of the technical stack
• Know your way around the Linux shell
• Git source code control
• Understanding of how enterprise server hardware is setup and how to add devices to the configuration
• Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or large cloud provider certifications
• Regarding MMR, experience with MMR (Management, monitoring and reporting), specific experience with Grafana, Prometheus, or AlertManager is a bonus
• Config Management and Automation
• Overall experience with MMR (Management, monitoring and reporting)