Hiring: Senior Cloud Ops Engineer Company: Simplesense Location: San Antonio, TX Job Posted Time: 2026-09-17 11:52:06 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, CI/CD, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Datadog, EC2, GitHub Actions, IAM, Infrastructure as Code, Node.js, Python, Root Cause Analysis, Secret Clearance, Splunk, Subnetting, Terraform, VPC, VPN About the job Experience: •100 years of direct mission experience solving hard problems with 50 years technical expertise deploying DevSecOps, cybersecurity, and cloud infrastructure, giving us a deep appreciation for our customers’ mission and end users’ priorities. We build for scale, architecting and prioritizing technical work for long term sustainability. •5+ years in cloud operations, systems administration, or DevOps, with a heavy focus on managing production workloads in mission-critical environments. •Over 100 years of direct mission experience solving hard problems with 50 years technical expertise deploying DevSecOps, cybersecurity, and cloud infrastructure, giving us a deep appreciation for our customers’ mission and end users’ priorities. We build for scale, architecting and prioritizing technical work for long term sustainability. Required Skills: •We prioritize candidates in the Denver, CO, San Antonio, TX, and Brooklyn, NY area, but are open to remote talent. •In person for sprint planning and quarterly planning meetings. •Quarterly travel for team meetings. •Own the health and performance of assigned production systems, defining Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and building the monitoring/alerting necessary to meet them. •Design and maintain automated delivery pipelines (Infrastructure as Code) to ensure repeatable, secure feature deployments. •Manage scalable cloud network topologies, including transit gateways, VPCs, subnets, security groups, and route tables, ensuring low-latency and secure communication between distributed services. •Proactively identify repetitive manual tasks and engineer automated solutions to prevent recurrence. Qualifications: •Advanced proficiency in AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM), CloudFormation or Terraform, and CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions.. •Comprehensive expertise in VPC design, subnetting, Route53, and VPN/Direct Connect configurations; experience troubleshooting complex connectivity issues across multi-account or hybrid on-prem/cloud environments. •Software Development •: Proficient in one or more software languages such as Node.js, Python, or Go. •Strong experience with observability stacks (e.g., Splunk, DataDog, or CloudWatch) including logging, tracing, and metrics tuning. •: You will be required to travel quarterly to Product Increment planning. •Must be a U.S. Citizen and able to obtain a DoD NIPR network account and Common Access Card (CAC) •Based in the Denver, CO, San Antonio, TX, or Brooklyn, NY area. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!