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Join Vacatia and Help Power the Future of Vacation Experiences Through Scalable Cloud Infrastructure

Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL (Hybrid)

About Vacatia

Vacatia is an innovative hospitality company reinventing the vacation ownership experience across discovery, booking, and stay. Were building the next generation of travel technology that blends hospitality, modern cloud platforms, and data-driven innovation to create seamless experiences for owners, guests, and employees.

As our technology ecosystem continues to grow, we're investing in cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, resilient, and automation-first. We're looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to help design, build, and optimize the AWS environments that power our applications, customer experiences, and business operations.

If you're passionate about cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, and building reliable systems that operate at scale, we'd love to meet you.

Why You'll Love Working at Vacatia

Build Modern Cloud Infrastructure
Design and manage scalable AWS environments using Infrastructure as Code, automation, and modern DevOps practices.

Drive Business Impact
Support the cloud platforms that power reservations, owner services, guest experiences, business intelligence, and enterprise applications across Vacatia.

Engineer for Reliability
Help build highly available, secure, and resilient infrastructure that supports critical hospitality operations around the clock.

Collaborate Across Engineering
Partner with Software Engineering, Data, Security, Product, and IT teams to deliver infrastructure that enables innovation across the business.

Grow with Emerging Technologies
Expand your expertise in cloud automation, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, observability, disaster recovery, and next-generation cloud technologies.

Your Impact

• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Build, optimize, and support CI/CD pipelines that accelerate software delivery while improving reliability and deployment consistency
• Implement observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions that proactively identify and resolve infrastructure issues
• Strengthen cloud security through IAM best practices, secrets management, policy enforcement, and automated compliance controls
• Support disaster recovery planning, backup strategies, infrastructure testing, and business continuity initiatives
• Partner with Software Engineering, Product, Data, and IT teams to design infrastructure that supports current and future application needs
• Migrate on-premises infrastructure, VMware, Hyper-V, and physical servers into AWS cloud environments
• Contribute to infrastructure documentation, operational standards, automation initiatives, and continuous improvement across the engineering organization

What You Bring

• 3+ years of experience in Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or a related discipline
• Hands-on experience designing and administering AWS cloud environments using services such as EC2, ECS, RDS, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, and related technologies
• Experience migrating virtualized and physical infrastructure from VMware, Hyper-V, or on-premises environments into AWS
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and infrastructure automation
• Familiarity with Docker and containerized applications; Kubernetes experience is a plus
• Experience supporting SaaS platforms, enterprise applications, or transactional eCommerce environments in production
• Strong understanding of cloud security best practices including IAM, least privilege, secrets management, encryption, and compliance
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability tools in distributed cloud environments
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills with the ability to work across cross-functional engineering teams

Nice to Have

• Experience with Kubernetes or container orchestration platforms
• Experience supporting FinOps initiatives, cloud cost optimization, or infrastructure performance tuning
• Familiarity with SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, or other compliance frameworks
• Experience supporting disaster recovery, incident response, or business continuity planning
• Exposure to scripting and automation using Python, PowerShell, or Bash

Join Us

Join Vacatia and help build the cloud infrastructure that powers exceptional vacation experiences. As our Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you'll play a critical role in creating secure, reliable, and scalable technology platforms that support our guests, employees, and continued business growth.

If you're excited by cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, and solving complex technical challenges that have real-world impact, we'd love to hear from you.