Cloud Engineer

Work Location: New Jersey, NJ

We are seeking a Cloud Engineer with strong Terraform expertise to design, automate, and support secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for banking and financial services solutions. The organization provides commercial data, analytics, business credit services, and enterprise intelligence that help businesses assess risk and make informed decisions.

In this role, you will be a core contributor to infrastructure reliability, security, and automation — working across engineering, security, data, and compliance teams to deliver production-grade cloud environments that meet the governance and audit expectations of a regulated financial services organization.

• Design, provision, and maintain cloud infrastructure supporting enterprise applications, data platforms, and analytics services.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules for networking, compute, storage, databases, identity, and security services.
• Establish Terraform standards for module design, versioning, remote state management, state locking, and environment configuration.
• Integrate Terraform validation, security scanning, plan reviews, and controlled deployments into CI/CD pipelines.
• Import existing cloud resources into Terraform and resolve configuration drift while protecting service availability.
• Implement secure networking, private connectivity, encryption, secrets management, and least-privilege access controls.
• Build resilient infrastructure with appropriate availability, backup, disaster recovery, and recovery testing.
• Configure monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational dashboards to support reliability and incident response.
• Support audit readiness through infrastructure documentation, change records, access controls, and traceable deployments.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and optimize performance, capacity, and cloud costs.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, runbooks, and operational procedures.

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering.
• Extensive hands-on Terraform experience building and maintaining production infrastructure.
• Demonstrated expertise in Terraform modules, providers, remote backends, state management, imports, and dependency handling.
• Strong experience with at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking including VPCs/VNets, subnets, routing, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, and private endpoints.
• Experience implementing IAM, role-based access, encryption, key management, and secrets management.
• Experience integrating infrastructure as code into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, or PowerShell for infrastructure automation.
• Strong Linux administration and infrastructure troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Understanding of change management, separation of duties, and audit requirements in regulated enterprise environments.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering, security, and business teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting banking, financial services, credit risk, commercial data, or analytics platforms.
• Experience with HCP Terraform or Terraform Enterprise, including workspaces, private module registries, and policy enforcement.
• Familiarity with Sentinel, Open Policy Agent, Checkov, or similar policy and infrastructure security tools.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and managed container platforms.
• Knowledge of cloud landing zones, multi-account or multi-subscription environments, and centralized governance.
• Experience supporting secure data pipelines, data warehouses, or enterprise analytics infrastructure.
• Familiarity with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 control environments.
• HashiCorp Terraform Associate or relevant cloud certifications.