Cloud Engineer

Samaritan's Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. They are seeking a Cloud Engineer to join their Information Technology department, focusing on maintaining and optimizing cloud infrastructure that supports ministry-critical workloads. This role involves utilizing AI tools, automating cloud infrastructure, and participating in team ceremonies to foster continuous improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain your personal relationship with Jesus Christ and be an effective witness for Him
• Build, maintain, and optimize cloud infrastructure platform services that support the deployment and operation of ministry-critical workloads in our private cloud platform. Utilize various Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to assist in optimizing engineering builds
• Provision and automate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines using Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD tools to support development and production environments
• Monitor applications and infrastructure performance and respond to incidents as part of an on-call rotation, supporting root cause analysis and long-term remediation
• Contribute to internal tooling and documentation to improve team productivity, technical consistency, and system knowledge-sharing
• Assist in evaluating cost implications and supporting optimization efforts for cloud resource usage; coordinate implementation efforts across stakeholders and vendors as needed
• Assist in the evaluation and adoption of emerging cloud technologies, advocating for improvements in resilience, cost, and maintainability
• Actively participate in team ceremonies, including stand-ups, retrospectives, and planning meetings, fostering continuous improvement and shared accountability
• All other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or university program certificate in a related field, plus five (5) to seven (7) years of Cloud Engineering experience, or seven (7) or more years of related experience
• A relevant combination of education and experience would also be considered
• Proven SRE or DevOps experience with a focus on reliability, automation, and production operations
• Extensive experience with observability systems, building and maintaining production stacks such as Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Datadog, or Dynatrace
• Extensive GitOps experience with tools like ArgoCD or Flux, including management of self-hosted Git platforms such as Gitea or GitLab
• Hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production, strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills, and comfort with open-source, on-premise environments; OpenStack experience is a plus
• 12 credit hours of college-level Biblical Studies (required); if not already completed, opportunity to meet and complete requirement is available upon hire
• Fluency in English (required)