Senior Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer Location: New York (Hybrid with 3 days onsite) My client, an established financial services organisation in New York, is looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer to join its technology team. This opportunity is suited to an engineer who enjoys working hands-on with AWS, Kubernetes and Python, developing the infrastructure and automation needed to support business-critical applications.

You'll be working in a collaborative engineering environment, helping modernise cloud capabilities, streamline deployment processes and strengthen the performance and reliability of production systems. The role also offers exposure to infrastructure supporting emerging AI and data technologies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain AWS infrastructure supporting enterprise applications and services.
• Work extensively with Kubernetes and EKS to manage containerised environments.
• Build Python-based automation to reduce manual processes and improve engineering efficiency.
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.
• Use Terraform or CloudFormation to manage cloud resources.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and improve production system performance.
• Implement monitoring and logging solutions to improve visibility across cloud environments.
• Work with development teams to support application deployment and integration.
• Strengthen cloud security, access management and infrastructure controls.
• Contribute to technical design decisions and identify opportunities to improve existing infrastructure.
• Support the ongoing development of cloud environments used for data-intensive and AI-related applications.
• Key Requirements 6+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering or SRE.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience, ideally within large enterprise environments.
• Advanced Python scripting and automation skills.
• Practical experience managing Kubernetes environments, preferably EKS.
• Experience using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD tooling and automated deployment processes.
• Experience supporting containerised applications and microservices.
• Understanding of distributed systems, cloud networking and infrastructure security.
• Experience with monitoring, troubleshooting and production support.
• Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery and infrastructure resilience.
• Previous experience working within financial services is essential.
• Ability to collaborate with software engineers, infrastructure specialists and wider technology teams.