We are seeking a senior cloud engineer with expertise in modern cloud platforms, infrastructure automation, and security. This role partners across the organization to deliver scalable, secure, and resilient solutions that increase agility, flexibility, and durability.

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to help design, build, and evolve platforms that enable development teams to safely and efficiently manage their own infrastructure. Working under the direction of the Platform Engineering Manager, a successful Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (SCPE) will work to implement and refine public cloud computing infrastructure.

The SCPE will actively participate with other engineers and developers across the organization to implement new workloads in public cloud and refactor existing workloads to meet industry and business best practices. The SCPE will also work to develop systems, tools, and infrastructure that will allow teams engaging with public cloud resources faster and more consistently to promote growth and innovation.

This role focuses on infrastructure as code, automation, CI/CD, and platform tooling rather than expertise in any single cloud provider.

The ideal candidate brings strong engineering fundamentals, deep experience with Terraform and infrastructure automation, and a “shift-left” mindset—partnering with development teams early to improve reliability, security, and delivery speed.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Working under the direction of the Platform Engineering Manager, the Senior Cloud Platform Engineer will:

• Advanced experience using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Design, implement, and operate cloud infrastructure platforms that support application teams across multiple workloads and environments.
• Build and maintain Terraform-based infrastructure as code, emphasizing modularity, reusability, and consistency.
• Experience supporting and deploying a range of public cloud computing services, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
• deployments.
• Demonstrable skill and understanding of the concepts of Infrastructure as Code, idempotency, and repeatable tooling.
• Strong ability to troubleshoot complex issues stemming from both automation and cloud infrastructure.
• Advanced experience and understanding of high-availability, high-performance, multi-regional systems.
• Develop and manage GitLab CI pipelines used to plan, validate, and deploy infrastructure and platform components.
• Create self-service capabilities that enable development teams to provision and manage infrastructure safely with minimal manual intervention.
• Partner with application teams to shift infrastructure and operational concerns left, embedding best practices early in the development lifecycle.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across automation pipelines, infrastructure code, and cloud environments.
• Participate in on-call rotation, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews to continuously improve platform reliability.
• Contribute to compliance, security, and operational reviews by designing guardrails directly into platform tooling.
• Continuously improve internal tooling, standards, and documentation to support platform adoption and developer productivity.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience in cloud or platform engineering roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, with Terraform as a primary tool.
• Proven experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience building or operating internal platforms or shared infrastructure tooling used by multiple development teams.
• Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts (compute, networking, storage, identity, and security), independent of provider.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, automation, and deployment pipelines.
• Familiarity with containerized workloads and orchestration concepts (e.g., Kubernetes), even if not a primary specialization.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with developers and translate platform capabilities into practical, usable solutions.
• Strong communication skills and a pragmatic, engineering-first approach to problem solving.
• Exposure to platform engineering concepts such as:
  • Golden paths
  • Opinionated templates
  • Guardrails vs. gates

Education & Certifications

• Associate degree or higher, or 5 years of equivalent Cloud Engineer experience.
• Cloud or infrastructure certifications are a plus but not required.

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$120,000.00 - $150,000.00 is the expected starting pay for this position. This offer is based on current budgetary guidelines and the additional factors outlined below.

SEI offers a comprehensive package of benefits to employees scheduled 30 hours or more per week. In addition to medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans, SEI employees may take advantage of well-being incentives, parental leave, paid time off, certain paid holidays, tax saving accounts (FSA, HSA), 401(k) retirement benefit, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, tuition assistance as well as entertainment and retail discounts. Non-exempt employees are eligible for overtime pay, if applicable.

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SEI is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and collaborative culture where individuals can grow their careers and contribute fully. We strive to attract talent with broad experiences, skills and perspectives. We welcome applications from all. While it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the pay range at SEI, we offer a competitive salary.  The actual base pay offered to the successful candidate may vary depending on multiple factors including, but not limited to, job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal pay equity. Our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to discuss your interest in joining SEI. The expected salary range for this position is below.

$103,900.00 - $155,900.00 - Salary

If you require reasonable accommodations to complete our application process, please contact our Human Resources Department at [email protected].