The Senior Cloud Engineer is a key technical member of Rhapsodyâs global Cloud Operations team, responsible for the stability, reliability, and operational excellence of our AWS-hosted platforms. This role combines deep technical troubleshooting, cloud infrastructure engineering, deployment support, and customerâfacing collaboration. The Senior Cloud Engineer will work closely with engineering, support, SRE, and global operations teams to ensure high availability, rapid incident response, and continuous improvement across Rhapsodyâs cloud services. This position requires strong handsâon AWS expertise, a proactive mindset, and the ability to operate effectively in a distributed, 24/7 cloud environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Deploy, operate, and maintain AWS-based infrastructure supporting Rhapsodyâs SaaS products (RaaS, CaaS, Envoy, Identity, etc.).
- Implement infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform, AWS CLI, and automation frameworks.
- Build and optimize VPCs, networking configurations, routing, security groups, and VPN tunnels (including 3rdâparty appliances like Sophos).
- Design and contribute to scalable, resilient architectures for cloud environments.
- Lead deep-dive troubleshooting for cloud infrastructure, application connectivity, VPN issues, identity services, and AWS resource failures.
- Support high-severity incidents, drive rapid mitigation, and provide actionable root cause insights.
Required Skills & Experience
- 3-5 years in Cloud Engineering, SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Operations roles.
- Strong hands-on AWS experience: EC2, VPC, IAM, Route53, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, networking, VPN, and security configurations.
- Solid understanding of networking concepts: DNS, routing, IPsec tunnels, firewalls, packet tracing, NAT, load balancers.
- Proficiency with Terraform, AWS CLI, scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell), and automation workflows.
- Experience supporting production environments in a 24/7 or followâtheâsun model.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across OS, cloud, network, VPN, identity, and application layers.
- Excellent communication skills for global team and customer interaction.