Senior Cloud Engineer
We’re hiring a Senior Cloud Engineer with a strong engineering background to help define and evolve cloud strategy for a Media & Broadcast Cloud Engineering team. This role is highly technical and hands-on, responsible for designing scalable, secure, and resilient cloud architectures that support live and on-demand media workflows in both cloud-native and hybrid environments. You’ll act as a technical thought leader, working closely with internal teams, external partners, and customers to shape modern cloud solutions aligned with business goals. This position sits at the intersection of architecture, engineering excellence, and cross-functional collaboration.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and evolve cloud architectures that support media and broadcast workloads across cloud-only and hybrid (on-prem) environments
- Define high-level cloud blueprints, reference architectures, networking models, and technical roadmaps aligned with business objectives
- Evaluate cloud services across compute, networking, storage, and platforms to select the best solutions for each use case
- Collaborate closely with cloud engineers to communicate architectural decisions and ensure best practices and patterns are followed
- Create design specifications, architecture diagrams, migration plans, security and compliance checklists, and cloud adoption strategies
- Provide technical leadership around infrastructure as code, CI/CD, monitoring, resiliency, and operational excellence
- Partner with Cybersecurity, InfoSec, and Legal teams on governance, security, compliance, and scalability decisions
- Engage with stakeholders and decision-makers to balance technical trade-offs with budget, timeline, and compliance requirements
- Build proofs of concept (POCs) to validate design patterns and technical approaches
- Participate in architecture reviews, project kickoffs, post-mortems, and incident root cause analysis
- Continuously explore new technologies and propose improvements around performance, reliability, cost optimization, and maintainability
Core Requirements
- Deep expertise with AWS, including IAM, authentication/authorization, and networking
- Strong experience designing scalable, highly available systems using containerization and/or serverless architectures
- Experience with hybrid cloud connectivity (e.g. Direct Connect, AWS Outposts)
- Solid understanding of infrastructure architecture models (centralized vs. distributed systems)
- Strong knowledge of AWS Well-Architected Framework principles
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or Terragrunt
- Proficiency in at least two programming languages (e.g. Python, Java, C++)
- Experience building deployment pipelines and enabling self-service platforms
- Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
- Strong collaboration mindset and comfort working with cross-functional teams
Nice-to-Have
- AWS Solutions Architect – Professional certification
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform and/or Azure
- Background in Media & Entertainment or broadcast systems
- Additional certifications (Terraform, Google Cloud, Azure, CCIP, CCIE, etc.)
- Enjoys collaborating with others, sharing knowledge, and contributing to a positive and pragmatic team environment
Additional
- US Timezone Overlap: Required
- Location: Near Los Angeles — Hybrid (2–3 days per week in office)