Senior Engineer, Cloud Platform

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The Royal Caribbean Group´s IT Team has an exciting career opportunity for a full-time Sr. Engineer, Cloud Platform reporting to Cloud operation Manager

 

The position is onsite and based in Miami, Florida.

 

The position is also not eligible for work authorization sponsorship. 

 

PositionSummary:

 

We’re looking for a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, reliable, and cost‑efficient cloud infrastructure at scale. You’ll be a hands-on technical leader—owning infrastructure-as-code, modernizing our platform services, guiding best practices, and partnering with security, networking, and application teams to deliver resilient, observable, and well-governed cloud environments.

• EssentialDutiesandResponsibilities:
  
  

Design & Build: Architect and implement scalable cloud infrastructure (compute, networking, storage, identity, secrets, container platforms, serverless) using Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform/CloudFormation).

• Platform Operations: Own day‑to‑day reliability and performance of core platform services (e.g., Kubernetes/AKS/EKS/GKE, API gateways, service mesh, artifacts, registries) including patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
• Automation & CI/CD: Create reusable modules, pipelines, and tooling (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/Jenkins) to enable self‑service provisioning and safe, repeatable deployments.
• Security & Compliance: Implement guardrails, IAM least privilege, key management, and workload hardening in partnership with Security.
• Observability & SRE: Establish logging, metrics, tracing (CloudWatch, Azure Monitor,  Grafana).
• Networking: Design resilient network topologies (VPC/VNet peering, PrivateLink/Private Endpoints, routing, DNS, WAF, CDN) and troubleshoot connectivity/perf issues.
• Mentorship & Standards: Coach engineers, perform design reviews, and document patterns, runbooks, and reference architectures.
• On‑Call: Participate in a reasonable, rotating on‑call schedule for critical platform services.

 

Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills:

 

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands‑on experience engineering and operating production cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP).
• Strong IaC expertise (Terraform preferred) and modern Git-based workflows (branches, PRs, code reviews).
• Solid understanding of cloud networking (CIDR, routing, NAT, DNS, load balancing, TLS).
• Practical security know‑how: IAM, KMS/secrets, image signing, vulnerability scanning, policy/guardrails.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and automating platform operations.
• Excellent troubleshooting, incident management, and cross‑team communication skills.

Preferred/Bonus

• Deep experience with Azure services (e.g., ARM/Bicep, Azure Policy, Azure Monitor/Log Analytics, AKS, ACR, Application Gateway, Private Endpoints).
• Service Mesh/Zero Trust (Istio, Linkerd, mTLS), API gateways, and event-driven architectures.
• Database platform knowledge (managed SQL/NoSQL), data protection, and backup/restore strategies.
• Compliance familiarity (SOC 2, PCI, ISO 27001) and evidence-based controls.
• FinOps tools and practices (budgets, tagging strategy, cost reporting).
• Experience leading migrations or large platform modernization efforts.

Education

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical experience

 

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