Cloud Engineer

CIQ OVERVIEW

CIQ believes in helping people do great things by providing world-class software infrastructure for others to build value on top of. This includes working closely with open-source communities, securing the software infrastructure, and driving performance throughout the entire stack. We love our customers who are doing things like running a traditional IT infrastructure to building the future of genAI and leading major research and scientific initiatives like curing cancer.

We are looking for individuals who strive to work on teams empowered by ownership, diversity of thought, pushing the limits of what is possible and want to help others.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Cloud Engineer will play an instrumental role in delivering CIQ’s Performance Intensive Computing (PIC) solution to enterprise cloud customers. As a Cloud Engineer, you will work with CIQ’s PIC Engineering team to architect, implement, and maintain the network, compute, and storage infrastructure to support the company’s cloud-based/SaaS PIC solution. Your responsibilities will also include ensuring the security, stability, and performance of our cloud solution. This role requires a deep technical depth of performance computing and a comprehensive breadth of cloud environments and infrastructure technologies. Additional responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Providing subject matter expertise on cloud architecture and SaaS application development.

• Contributing or participating in architecture-level discussions, planning, and implementation.

• Researching to ensure what we are building is always the best path forward.

• Documenting each project to share knowledge and facilitate integration for users.

• Developing proof of concepts and minimal viable products for demonstration.

• Supporting multiple services before they go live through activities such as developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.

• Improving products by collaborating with Engineering teams, Product teams, Sales teams, and open-source communities (as needed) on optimal and relevant solutions while sharing knowledge.

• Working closely with cross-functional teams to support product deliverables and business objectives.

• Identifying opportunities to optimize performance and reduce costs across the infrastructure landscape.

NEEDED TO SUCCEED

Successful candidates will have:

• Expertise in performance computing, cloud architecture, containers, and delivering high-quality products to maximize CIQ’s capability to meet the business and technical requirements of our customers running in the cloud.

• A deep familiarity with Cloud and Cloud-Native Principles.

• The ability to troubleshoot and improve applications and processes, analyze current code and industry developments to develop engineering solutions to solve problems, and create seamless user experiences.

• A proven track record of working on a geographically distributed team and delivering products that customers love on ambitious timelines.

• Proficiency in managing and maintaining compute environments, including virtualization and containerization.

• A friendly, collaborative, humble, honest, and always striving to be better attitude.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• BS/BA in Computer Science or related

• 5+ years of relevant work experience in AWS, Azure, or GCP

• At least one certification from a major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

• Direct hands-on experience leading the design, development, and deployment of cloud solutions at scale or current hands-on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience.