Sr. Cloud Engineer

Accurate Background is hiring a Senior Cloud Engineer to advance its background screening experience through secure, scalable, and reliable cloud platforms. The role designs and supports AWS infrastructure, container platforms, infrastructure as code, CI/CD automation, networking, security controls, observability, and operational readiness.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and support secure, scalable, highly available AWS cloud infrastructure that aligns with enterprise architecture, security, and operational standards
• Engineer and manage containerized platforms using Docker, Kubernetes, and Amazon EKS, ensuring reliability, scalability, performance, and operational excellence across production environments
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, creating reusable modules, automation frameworks, and standardized deployment patterns that improve consistency and reduce manual effort
• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and related DevOps tools to enable automated testing, security validation, deployment, and release management
• Architect and support AWS networking solutions including VPCs, Transit Gateway, Cloud WAN, Route 53, VPN connectivity, and load balancing services to ensure secure and resilient connectivity
• Implement cloud security controls, governance standards, and compliance requirements through IAM, AWS Organizations, Service Control Policies (SCPs), KMS, Secrets Manager, GuardDuty, Security Hub, and AWS Config
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and continuously improve cloud platform reliability through observability, incident response, root cause analysis, disaster recovery planning, backup strategies, and operational automation
• Collaborate with Application Development, DevOps, Security, Database, and Cloud Operations teams to deliver cloud solutions, support modernization initiatives, establish engineering standards, and drive continuous improvement across the cloud platform

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or relevant experience may be substituted for formal education
• 7+ years of infrastructure, cloud engineering, or platform engineering experience
• 5+ years of hands-on AWS experience supporting enterprise environments
• Strong expertise with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
• Hands-on experience building and managing Kubernetes platforms, preferably Amazon EKS
• Experience with containerization technologies including Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools
• Strong understanding of DevOps, GitOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices
• Strong scripting skills using Python, PowerShell, or Bash
• Experience supporting highly available, production-grade cloud environments
• Strong troubleshooting and performance optimization skills
• Experience designing and supporting AWS networking architectures utilizing Transit Gateway (TGW), Cloud WAN, Site-to-Site VPN, Direct Connect, Route 53, and hybrid-cloud connectivity solutions
• Experience establishing API management standards using Amazon API Gateway, including authentication, authorization, throttling, monitoring, versioning, and security controls
• Experience implementing and managing identity and access management solutions using Amazon Cognito, including User Pools, Identity Pools, federation, multi-factor authentication (MFA), and single sign-on (SSO) integrations
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty, AWS Certified Security – Specialty, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Experience implementing enterprise observability and monitoring solutions using Datadog, including infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring (APM), logging, alerting, dashboards, and operational analytics