Senior Cloud Engineer - FedRAMP

<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>About Delinea:</strong><br>Delinea is a pioneer in securing human and machine identities through intelligent, centralized authorization, empowering organizations to seamlessly govern their interactions across the modern enterprise. Leveraging AI-powered intelligence, Delinea’s leading cloud-native Identity Security Platform applies context throughout the entire identity lifecycle – across cloud and traditional infrastructure, data, SaaS applications, and AI. It is the only platform that enables you to discover all identities – including workforce, IT administrator, developers, and machines – assign appropriate access levels, detect irregularities, and respond to threats in real-time. With deployment in weeks, not months, 90% fewer resources to manage than the nearest competitor, and a 99.995% uptime, Delinea delivers robust security and operational efficiency without compromise. Learn more about Delinea on <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://Delinea.com">Delinea.com</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fcompany%2Fdelinea%2F&data=05%7C02%7CMichele.Eaton%40delinea.com%7C766420d58b9a492d94ca08ddd6949f59%7C18d6ed03f0e5486183d2bb7b6c7c2bb2%7C0%7C0%7C638902656186877399%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=b1LCPIWSjxvblUYLlabUnRZ43S8rcspTQcBZsz0UbmU%3D&reserved=0">LinkedIn</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2Fdelineainc&data=05%7C02%7CMichele.Eaton%40delinea.com%7C766420d58b9a492d94ca08ddd6949f59%7C18d6ed03f0e5486183d2bb7b6c7c2bb2%7C0%7C0%7C638902656186902236%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=goZhva9hWR8F0P5pO6SQUEwigdbvbZiWqmw5%2BHhhf1A%3D&reserved=0">X</a>, and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2F%40Delinea&data=05%7C02%7CMichele.Eaton%40delinea.com%7C766420d58b9a492d94ca08ddd6949f59%7C18d6ed03f0e5486183d2bb7b6c7c2bb2%7C0%7C0%7C638902656186928751%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=uXgjuXTFu4kHWBJZ1XdNWN88Mrk5iT9Y24Ejw8fFBi8%3D&reserved=0">YouTube</a>.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Join our passionate, global team at Delinea and help us make the world a safer and more secure place. Our success is driven by world-class product leadership, outstanding engineers, and strategic investment from TPG. We value diversity, innovation, and a culture of respect and fairness. If you're ready to push boundaries and challenge the status quo in security, we want to hear from you.<br> </p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Apply today to help us achieve our mission.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Senior Cloud Engineer Summary:</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Delinea is seeking a skilled and motivated Senior Cloud Engineer to join our Cloud Engineering team. In this role, you will own and evolve complex application infrastructure — including messaging and eventing systems such as Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, and Amazon SES — delivering reliable, scalable, and well-documented solutions that directly enable our development teams to move fast and build confidently. From architecting and maintaining infrastructure modules in Terraform, Helm, and Kubernetes across AWS and Azure, to driving high availability practices and building operational runbooks, you will play a key role in shaping how platform infrastructure is built and supported across the organization. You will be reporting to the Director of Cloud Engineering.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">• Own and maintain complex application infrastructure components including Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, and Amazon SES, ensuring high availability, performance, and reliability across AWS and Azure environments.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">• Design, build, and maintain reusable infrastructure modules using Terraform, Helm, and Kubernetes, ensuring all new and existing application components are well-documented and repeatable.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">• Develop and maintain operational runbooks, monitoring frameworks, and process flows for common infrastructure issues, enabling rapid response and clear handoff across teams.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">• Partner with development teams to understand infrastructure needs, translating requirements into scalable, production-ready solutions that align with platform standards.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">• Integrate AI learning tooling into cloud infrastructure workflows, including evaluating LLM-based automation, AI-assisted observability, and developer tooling that accelerates platform engineering across the organization.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">• Drive high availability and reliability standards across managed services, contributing to incident reviews and implementing preventive improvements.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>What You’ll Need:</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">• 8+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering with a focus on application-layer infrastructure.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">• Proven hands-on experience with <strong>AWS and Azure</strong>, including deploying and managing <strong>Kubernetes</strong> workloads, microservices architecture, and cloud security fundamentals.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">• Hands-on expertise with messaging and eventing systems such as <strong>Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, and Amazon SES</strong> in production environments.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining infrastructure-as-code using <strong>Terraform and Helm</strong>, including module development, versioning, and documentation — with exposure to AI-assisted infrastructure tooling and a security-first approach encompassing policy-as-code, secrets management, and least-privilege access controls.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">• Strong ability to create and maintain operational documentation including runbooks, monitoring frameworks, and process flows for complex infrastructure systems.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">• Familiarity with working in <strong>FedRamp</strong> authorized systems</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>We’d Love to See:</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">• Experience with advanced RabbitMQ configurations including clustering, federation, and message persistence strategies in self-hosted environments.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">• Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline tooling (e.g., Azure DevOps) and experience integrating infrastructure modules into automated deployment workflows.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">• Exposure to security and compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC2, PCI) within cloud infrastructure environments, with hands-on experience applying controls such as IAM hardening, secrets management (e.g., Vault or AWS Secrets Manager), and compliance posture management across AWS and Azure.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Why work at Delinea? </strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're passionate problem-solvers helping the world's largest organizations protect what matters most: their human and machine identities.</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">We invest in people who are smart, self-motivated, and collaborative.</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">What we offer in return is meaningful work, a culture of innovation and great career progression.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>At Delinea, our core values are STRONG and guide our behaviors and success:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Spirited - We bring energy and passion to everything we do</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Trust - We act with integrity and deliver on our commitments</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Respect - We listen, value different perspectives, and work as one team</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Ownership - We take initiative and follow through</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Nimble - We adapt quickly in a fast-changing environment</p></li></ul><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Global - We embrace diverse people and ideas to drive better outcomes</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em">We believe weaving these core values into our day-to-day actions, and our process for hiring, evaluating, and promoting employees, helps us cultivate a work environment that embraces collaboration and camaraderie.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We take care of our employees. We offer competitive salaries, a meaningful bonus program, and excellent benefits, including healthcare insurance, as well as pension/retirement matching, comprehensive life insurance, an employee assistance program, time off plans, and paid company holidays. </p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><em>Delinea is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type with regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.</em></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><em>Upon conditional offer of employment, candidates are required to complete comprehensive criminal background check, verification of education, and verification of employment, per employment policy. 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