Senior Cloud Ops Engineer

Simplesense builds and sustains a platform that supports defense mission operators and protects critical infrastructure. The Senior Cloud Ops Engineer owns production reliability for cloud-hosted applications, improving automation, system stability, and operational support for development teams.

Responsibilities:

• Own the health and performance of assigned production systems, defining Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and building the monitoring/alerting necessary to meet them
• Design and maintain automated delivery pipelines (Infrastructure as Code) to ensure repeatable, secure feature deployments
• Manage scalable cloud network topologies, including transit gateways, VPCs, subnets, security groups, and route tables, ensuring low-latency and secure communication between distributed services
• Proactively identify repetitive manual tasks and engineer automated solutions to prevent recurrence
• Act as the second escalation point for complex incidents, leading thorough root cause analysis (RCA) and implementing systemic, long-term fixes
• Partner with development teams to translate software requirements into robust operational designs, effectively communicating design decisions and resulting system trade-offs

Requirements:

• 5+ years in cloud operations, systems administration, or DevOps, with a heavy focus on managing production workloads in mission-critical environments
• Advanced proficiency in AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM), CloudFormation or Terraform, and CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions
• Deep understanding of VPC design, subnetting, Route53, and VPN/Direct Connect configurations; experience troubleshooting complex connectivity issues across multi-account or hybrid on-prem/cloud environments
• Proficient in one or more software languages such as Node.js, Python, or Go
• Strong experience with observability stacks (e.g., Splunk, DataDog, or CloudWatch) including logging, tracing, and metrics tuning
• Must be a U.S. Citizen and able to obtain a DoD NIPR network account and Common Access Card (CAC)
• Must have, or be able to obtain, a Secret Clearance
• Experience working within DoD, Air Force, or Federal contractor environments
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator or equivalent technical certification