The Planet Group

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Cloud Systems Engineer – AWS Lead

Location: Remote (U.S. Based) or Hybrid from San Diego, CA

Compensation: $140,000–$160,000 base + 15% annual bonus potential

Work Authorization: U.S. Citizens or Green Card holders only

Employment Type: Full-Time, Direct Hire

Travel: Up to 5% (primarily to company HQ in San Diego, up to 1x/quarter)

Work Hours: 8AM–5PM Pacific Time (Required)

On-Call Rotation: Once every 5 weeks (PagerDuty; $60/month reimbursement)

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Cloud Systems Engineer with deep expertise in AWS to join a collaborative, highly technical infrastructure team supporting mission-critical enterprise systems. You’ll play a lead role in cloud infrastructure automation, cost optimization, and solution architecture, while mentoring developers and engineers on best practices.

This role is well-suited for someone with strong ownership, cloud security know-how, and a desire to simplify and modernize infrastructure at scale. You'll partner with DevOps, Security, and Architecture teams to streamline deployments and drive cloud transformation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead design, automation, and implementation of AWS cloud infrastructure using IaC (Terraform or CloudFormation)
• Drive cloud strategy, architecture planning, and technical roadmap execution
• Develop, maintain, and scale secure, compliant, cost-optimized infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments
• Support cloud governance initiatives, tooling, and best practice documentation
• Act as a thought leader within the infrastructure team and provide mentorship to peers and developers
• Collaborate with security, risk, and compliance to ensure architecture meets audit, regulatory, and internal policy standards
• Translate business and technical requirements into scalable cloud architecture

Required Skills & Experience

• 7–10 years of cloud engineering experience, primarily with AWS
• Advanced expertise in VPC, DataSync, EC2, Lambda, CloudFormation or Terraform
• Experience with data migration and application modernization
• Strong background in Linux administration, with working knowledge of Windows systems
• Familiar with routing, firewalls, load balancing, and network architecture
• Comfortable working cross-functionally and presenting to both executive stakeholders and technical teams
• Skilled in Jira, Confluence, and collaboration in agile/hybrid development environments
• Demonstrated success in infrastructure cost optimization, security hardening, and process automation

Nice to Have

• AWS Certifications (Solutions Architect, SysOps Admin, or DevOps Engineer)
• Experience with GCP or Azure, and multi-cloud migration projects
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Experience integrating SaaS and on-prem systems with Azure Active Directory, SSO/MFA

What You’ll Gain

• Strategic influence over a modern cloud transformation initiative
• The opportunity to step into a Principal Engineer–level track in the future
• Work-life flexibility with a remote-first team and Pacific-based hours
• A collaborative team of SMEs, engineers, and business partners
• Competitive base salary, strong bonus potential, and full benefits

Interested?

This is a rare opportunity to lead enterprise-scale cloud strategy while staying hands-on with implementation. If you’re passionate about automation, scalable infrastructure, and being part of a high-trust, low-ego team, we want to hear from you.

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The Planet Group and our companies are equal opportunity employers. It is our practice not to discriminate against any employee or applicant based on any criteria, condition or basis protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply. We celebrate diversity and are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect. We believe that diversity, equity and inclusion enable us to better meet our mission and values while serving our clients across the globe. If you have a disability or handicap and would like us to accommodate you in any reasonable way, please inform your recruiter, or contact us, so that we can discuss the appropriate alternatives available.