United States onlyBlackCloak’s mission is to protect corporate executives and high-profile individuals in their personal lives, mitigating risks to their families, companies, reputation, and finances. We defend our clients’ digital lives from hackers, privacy leaks, and identity theft. If you are passionate about helping to protect others, then keep reading - this may be your next great opportunity.
As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will be a key member of BlackCloak’s internal technology team, responsible for the architecture, reliability, and automation of our cloud infrastructure. This role sits at the intersection of development, security, and operations, where you will design scalable environments, automate deployment pipelines, and ensure our cloud presence is robust and performant. You will be a builder, an orchestrator, and an operator, driving the success of BlackCloak’s platform by delivering modern, automated technology solutions.
What You Will Do
- Architect and Manage Cloud Infrastructure: Design, deploy, and maintain highly available and scalable environments within GCP.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Drive the adoption of Terraform to manage all infrastructure through code, ensuring environment consistency and version control.
- Cloud Operations & Monitoring: Expand the observability capabilities of the platform and own the day-to-day health of production environments.
- Collaborative DevOps: Partner closely with engineers to improve the developer experience, assisting with containerization (Docker/K8s) and deployment strategies.
- CI/CD Automation: Build and optimize robust CI/CD pipelines to streamline application delivery, integrating automated testing and deployment gates.
- Secure Infrastructure Design: Partner with security engineering to implement cloud hardening standards, IAM architecture and policies, secrets management, and overall Cloud infrastructure and security best practices.
- Performance Optimization: Analyze cloud spend and resource utilization to optimize for cost and performance across all environments.
- Automated Remediation: Develop scripts and playbooks to automate routine operational tasks and self-healing infrastructure.
What You Will Need to be Successful
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in a Cloud Engineering, SRE, or DevOps role, preferably within a cloud-native SaaS, startup environment.
- Public Cloud Expertise: Strong proficiency in managing public cloud environments, with a primary focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Automation Mindset: Proven experience with Terraform, Ansible, or Pulumi for infrastructure automation.
- Cloud Operations Expertise: Demonstrated experience managing production workloads at scale, including log aggregation, proactive alerting, and incident response.
- Operational Mindset: A safety-first approach to changes, with experience in canary deployments, blue-green releases, and automated rollbacks.
- Containerization: Solid understanding of Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes (GKE).
- Pipeline Experience: Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins).
- Scripting: Proficiency in at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, Bash) to automate manual processes.
- Collaborative Problem-Solver: Ability to work across Engineering, Security, and Product teams to translate business requirements into technical architecture.
About BlackCloak
BlackCloak is an extremely fast-growing company in an entirely new product category. We have amazing product fit validated by industry awards and an impressive client base of Fortune 500 companies across all industries.
BlackCloak offers a competitive salary, exceptional benefits, and a dynamic work environment. Below is a quick summary of BlackCloak’s generous benefits package for full-time employees includes:
- 100% Remote Company, within the USA
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans with a 100% employer-paid monthly premium option for employees & 50% employer-paid monthly premiums for dependents.
- Health Savings Account with company contribution for eligible medical plans.
- Flexible Vacation Plan
- 10 Paid Company Holidays
- 100% employer-paid Life, AD&D and Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance
- 401k with Traditional and Roth options, including employer match.
- Company Equity
- Paid Parental and Pregnancy Recovery Leave
- Company and team off-sites and virtual events throughout the year
- Home office stipend
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, national or ethnic origin, military service status, citizenship, or other protected characteristic.
Learn More about Us
Website: https://blackcloak.io
LinkedIn: /blackcloak
Twitter: @BlackCloakCyber
White Paper: https://bc.blackcloak.io/quantifying-the-business-need-for-digital-executive-protection-report-download
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