Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Samaritan's Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. They are seeking a Cloud Engineer to join their Information Technology department, focusing on maintaining and optimizing cloud infrastructure to support ministry-critical workloads. This role involves using modern reliability practices and tools to ensure the performance and scalability of their cloud platforms.
Responsibilities
- Maintain your personal relationship with Jesus Christ and be an effective witness for Him
- Build, maintain, and optimize cloud infrastructure platform services that support the deployment and operation of ministry-critical workloads in our private cloud platform
- Utilize various Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to assist in optimizing engineering builds
- Provision and automate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines using Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD tools to support development and production environments
- Monitor applications and infrastructure performance and respond to incidents as part of an on-call rotation, supporting root cause analysis and long-term remediation
- Contribute to internal tooling and documentation to improve team productivity, technical consistency, and system knowledge-sharing
- Assist in evaluating cost implications and supporting optimization efforts for cloud resource usage; coordinate implementation efforts across stakeholders and vendors as needed
- Assist in the evaluation and adoption of emerging cloud technologies, advocating for improvements in resilience, cost, and maintainability
- Actively participate in team ceremonies, including stand-ups, retrospectives, and planning meetings, fostering continuous improvement and shared accountability
- All other duties as assigned
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or university program certificate in a related field, plus five (5) to seven (7) years of Cloud Engineering experience, or seven (7) or more years of related experience
- Proven SRE or DevOps experience with a focus on reliability, automation, and production operations
- Extensive experience with observability systems, building and maintaining production stacks such as Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Datadog, or Dynatrace
- Extensive GitOps experience with tools like ArgoCD or Flux, including management of self-hosted Git platforms such as Gitea or GitLab
- Hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production, strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills, and comfort with open-source, on-premise environments; OpenStack experience is a plus
- 12 credit hours of college-level Biblical Studies (required); if not already completed, an opportunity to meet and complete the requirement is available upon hire
- Fluency in English (required)
Benefits
- Medical, prescription, dental & vision insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Long-term and Short-term disability insurance
- Paid Family Medical Leave
- Term Life Insurance
- 401(k) retirement savings plan
- 10 paid holidays
- 12 vacation/personal days
- 10 sick days
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