Weekday Cloud Operations Engineer Jobs in Missouri

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud and hybrid infrastructure supporting production workloads, enterprise systems, and CI/CD pipelines
• Lead the adoption of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools to enable repeatable, auditable, and secure deployments
• Architect scalable and fault-tolerant solutions across OCI, AWS, Azure, and on-prem data centers, ensuring high availability and cost efficiency
• Evaluate emerging cloud services and technologies for applicability to business needs and long-term scalability goals
• Serve as the technical lead for production operations, ensuring uptime, performance, and reliability of customer-facing and internal systems
• Develop and maintain observability frameworks leveraging metrics, logs, and traces to ensure proactive detection and rapid response
• Partner with engineering teams to implement SRE-inspired practices, including service level objectives (SLOs), error budgets, and post-incident reviews
• Drive root cause analysis, performance tuning, and continuous improvement of production services
• Collaborate with DevOps and application engineering teams to build and optimize automated deployment pipelines supporting frequent, low-risk releases
• Integrate security and compliance checks into CI/CD workflows to ensure production readiness and alignment with internal standards
• Design self-healing infrastructure and automated rollback mechanisms to reduce operational risk
• Ensure secure and reliable configuration management and environment orchestration using tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
• Establish and enforce operational best practices for monitoring, patching, and change management across production systems
• Lead production readiness reviews for new releases and large-scale changes
• Collaborate with the Security and Compliance teams to ensure systems adhere to policy, hardening standards, and regulatory requirements
• Participate in and occasionally lead on-call rotations for critical production systems, ensuring rapid triage and resolution
• Act as a technical mentor to cloud and infrastructure engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and engineering excellence
• Lead architectural reviews, design sessions, and capacity planning discussions
• Serve as a trusted advisor to management on cloud modernization, resilience engineering, and cost optimization strategies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field; Master’s preferred
• 10+ years of experience in cloud and infrastructure engineering, including 3+ years in a senior or principal role
• Expertise with OCI (preferred), AWS and/or Azure cloud services, including networking, compute, storage, and identity management
• Proven experience managing production-scale environments supporting mission-critical applications and services
• Strong proficiency in:
• -Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• -CI/CD and DevOps toolchains (Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD)
• -Container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
• -Monitoring and observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK)
• -Scripting and automation (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
• Solid understanding of security, compliance, and networking principles in hybrid environments
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and incident management skills
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from concept to execution.

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Hard Skills

• Cloud Services (OCI, AWS, Azure)
• Scripting and Automation (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
• Security and Compliance Principles
• Production-Scale Environment Management
• Performance Tuning
• Root Cause Analysis
• Configuration Management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
• Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
• Error Budgets
• Incident Management

Soft Skills

• Analytical Skills
• Problem-Solving
• Mentoring
• Collaboration
• Leadership

Certifications & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems
• Master’s Degree Preferred