Senior Cloud Engineer

Location: Hybrid, New York City, United States. Permanent work authorization in the United States is required.

Annual base salary: $99,200–$165,400, plus a 12.5% bonus target and eligibility for a share-based long-term incentive program.

Company

hirify.global is a global pharmaceutical company developing medicines and healthcare solutions.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and evolve secure, scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
• Lead Infrastructure as Code development with Terraform, OpenTofu, or similar tools, including reusable modules, patterns, and reference architectures.
• Build automation for cloud provisioning, configuration, lifecycle management, CI/CD, and IaC workflows using tools such as Spacelift and GitHub Actions.
• Define cloud guardrails, policies, controls, and policy-as-code workflows for security, compliance, governance, and audits.
• Establish observability, monitoring, and alerting; lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis for complex infrastructure incidents.
• Mentor Cloud Engineers and collaborate with application teams, SRE, security, risk, compliance, and architecture teams on platform modernization and technical strategy.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with at least 4 years of experience; or a master’s degree with at least 2 years; or a PhD with 0+ years; or an associate’s degree with 8 years; or a high school diploma or equivalent with 10 years of relevant experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of hands-on cloud or platform engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in at least one major cloud provider—AWS, Azure, or GCP—with production-scale experience.
• Advanced Infrastructure as Code experience, with Terraform strongly preferred.
• Strong automation and scripting skills, with Python strongly preferred.
• Deep understanding of cloud networking, identity, security, and cloud-native services.
• Experience working in global, cross-functional engineering environments.
• Ability to lead technical initiatives, make architectural decisions, work collaboratively in an agile environment, adapt to change, and solve problems proactively.

Nice to have

• Technical curiosity, self-direction, and commitment to continuous improvement.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills for complex cloud systems.
• Comfort operating with high ownership and autonomy.
• Ability to influence technical direction and mentor others through collaboration and clear communication.
• Customer-focused mindset with the ability to balance engineering excellence and business outcomes.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement in New York City.
• Participation in hirify.global’s Global Performance Plan with a 12.5% bonus target and eligibility for a share-based long-term incentive program.
• Benefits include a 401(k) with hirify.global matching and an additional retirement savings contribution.
• Paid vacation, holidays, personal days, caregiver/parental leave, and medical leave.
• Medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage.
• Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and eligibility.