Senior Service Engineer (DevSecOps)

The Opportunity 

CloudFit  is seeking a Senior Service Engineer to design, deploy, modernize, and operate secure, scalable customer solutions. This role combines deep technical expertise with project leadership, customer partnership, and mentorship across Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, and DevOps environments. You will own complex technical outcomes, guide implementation decisions, and help engineers and customers succeed. 

What You'll Own 

Cloud Architecture & Solution Delivery 

• Design and implement cloud-native solutions using Azure, AWS, and modern platform technologies. 
• Translate customer requirements into secure, scalable, and maintainable architectures. 
• Lead deployment, modernization, and continuous improvement initiatives across customer environments. 
• Architect, deploy, and continuously harden cloud and hybrid environments to meet security, compliance, and governance requirements while enabling scalable, reliable service delivery. 

Technical Ownership & Operations 

• Own technical solutions throughout their lifecycle, from design and implementation through ongoing operations. 
• Improve the reliability, security, scalability, and operational maturity of customer systems. 
• Support production workloads through on-call rotations and incident response when required. 

Automation & Platform Engineering 

• Drive Infrastructure as Code, automation, GitOps, and DevOps practices across projects. 
• Reduce operational toil through automation and process improvement. 
• Establish and apply engineering standards for cloud platforms, security, networking, and system administration, based on industry and CloudFit best practices.  

Leadership & Customer Partnership 

• Lead technical discussions, architecture reviews, and project implementation efforts. 
• Mentor engineers through coaching, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing. 
• Partner with customer stakeholders to shape solutions that meet mission and business objectives. 

What Success Looks Like 

During the first 6 months, you will: 

• Build trusted relationships with customers, project teams, and engineering peers. 
• Assume ownership of customer environments and defined technical solution areas. 
• Contribute to cloud architecture, automation, and modernization initiatives. 
• Demonstrate technical leadership through architecture reviews, mentoring, and complex problem-solving. 

During months 6 through 18, you will: 

• Lead complex cloud, platform, and modernization initiatives, exercising broad judgment in determining technical approaches and implementation strategies. 
• Deliver measurable improvements in reliability, automation, security, and operational maturity while contributing to engineering best practices across projects. 
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers and teammates, sharing knowledge, mentoring engineers, and helping teams navigate complex technical challenges. 

Longer term, you will strengthen engineering maturity, enable customer success, develop future technical leaders, and help shape CloudFit service engineering practices. 

What We're Looking For 

• 6-8+ years of relevant experience in cloud, platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering. 
• Strong experience designing and operating Azure environments, with familiarity across AWS or hybrid architectures. 
• Expertise with Infrastructure as Code, including Bicep, Terraform, Ansible, or similar technologies. 
• Experience administering Kubernetes and deploying applications using modern GitOps and DevOps practices, including CI/CD Pipelines. 
• Experience with enterprise cloud networking, governance, security, identity, Linux or Windows administration, and Git workflows. 
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects, mentor engineers, and influence team-level engineering decisions. 
• Strong judgment and communication skills, with the ability to solve complex problems and engage technical and non-technical stakeholders. 
• Experience writing production-ready scripts or code in Python, PowerShell, Bash, or a similar language. 

Preferred: Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Azure certification, or comparable cloud certification. These credentials are valued but not required. 

Additional Requirements 

• US Citizenship is required. 
• Ability to obtain and maintain a federal security clearance. 
• Ability to travel to support customers in secure or air-gapped environments.  
• Participation in on-call support rotations may be required. 
• Ability to meet customer-specific access, credential, or security requirements when applicable. 

Key Partners 

This role works closely with Service Engineers, Platform Engineers, Software Engineers, project and delivery leaders, security teams, customer stakeholders, and CloudFit leadership to deliver high-quality technical solutions and customer outcomes. 

The salary range for this role is $85,800 - $173,599.92 + benefits, & perks.  

Please note the national salary range listed in the job posting reflects the new hire salary range across levels and U.S. locations that would be applicable to the position. Final salary will be commensurate with the candidate’s final level and location. Also, the range represents salary only and does not include our total rewards package.