Cloud Engineer

As the leading global type 1 diabetes (T1D) research and advocacy organization, Breakthrough T1D helps make everyday life with T1D better while driving toward cures. We invest in the most promising research to turn ideas into life-changing therapies and devices. We work with government, regulatory officials, and insurance companies to address issues that impact the T1D community -- breaking through barriers that limit access to care worldwide. We provide resources and guidance that makes it easier to live and thrive with T1D. This is more than a moment -- we're empowering a movement for the T1D community. Share your support and help educate and empower individuals facing type 1 diabetes.

Our mission is to improve lives today and tomorrow by accelerating life changing breakthroughs to treat, prevent and ultimately, cure T1D and its complications. Always, we are guided by a single purpose: As we drive towards curing type 1 diabetes, we help make everyday life better for the people who face it.

We are seeking a highly skilled Cloud Engineer who brings deep expertise across AWS services, DevOps automation, CI/CD pipelines, cloud networking, and security best practices. The ideal candidate will architect, maintain, and optimize our AWS environments while ensuring secure, reliable, and scalable cloud operations. This role requires hands-on engineering experience, strong technical judgment, and the ability to collaborate closely with development, and security teams.

Key Responsibilities:

AWS Architecture & Engineering:

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of the overall enterprise architecture
• Design, deploy, and manage production-grade AWS infrastructure with an emphasis on reliability, performance, and cost efficiency
• Build and maintain solutions using key AWS services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, VPC, S3, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, IAM, CloudFront, Route 53, SQS/SNS, CloudWatch, and KMS
• Implement high-availability, multi-AZ, and failover architectures.
• Perform deep troubleshooting across compute, networking, storage, IAM, and application layers

DevOps, CI/CD & Automation:

• Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using tools such as AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
• Implement automated build, test, deploy, and rollback processes to improve deployment velocity and reliability.
• Create reusable automation frameworks using Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
• Enable engineering teams with self-service tooling and automation.

Cloud Networking & Operations:

• Design and manage AWS networking architectures including VPCs, subnets, routing tables, NAT gateways, VPNs, Direct Connect, transit gateways, security groups, NACLs, and load balancers.
• Implement and maintain secure network segmentation, traffic routing, and connectivity to on-premise or hybrid environments.
• Monitor and troubleshoot network performance, latency, DNS, and endpoint configuration issues.

Cloud Security, Compliance & Governance:

• Enforce AWS security best practices: IAM least privilege, MFA, secure access patterns, key management, encryption (at rest/in-transit), and vulnerability remediation.
• Implement guardrails using tools such as AWS Config, GuardDuty, Inspector, CloudTrail, and Security Hub.
• Ensure adherence to industry compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO27001, HIPAA, PCI, etc., depending on the organization).
• Respond to security incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and drive long-term remediation.

Observability & Reliability

• Deploy and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions (CloudWatch, OpenSearch, Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, etc.).
• Implement SRE-driven practices including SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and incident-response processes.
• Improve overall resiliency and uptime across cloud environments.

Qualifications:

Experience:

• 4–8+ years of cloud engineering experience with a strong focus on AWS.
• Deep hands-on expertise across core AWS services, networking, IAM, and security.
• Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation).
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Experience managing containers (Docker) and orchestrators (ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes).
• Solid understanding of cloud networking: VPC design, routing, load balancing, firewalls, DNS.
• Experience managing production environments with strict uptime, security, and compliance requirements.
• Strong communication skills, able to collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams.
• Ability to document architectures, procedures, runbooks, and incident reports.
• Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving skills.
• Comfortable taking ownership of projects and mentoring junior team members.

Targeted Salary Range: $140-$150K

Essential Functions:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.  The employee frequently is required to use hands or fingers, handle or feel objects, tools or controls.  The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and infrequently up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Benefits:

Breakthrough T1D offers competitive benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 403(b) retirement plan, voluntary benefits, flexible spending and commuter benefit accounts, an employee assistance program (EAP), life and disability insurance, performance-based bonuses, and generous paid time off. Benefits may vary by job level and full time or part time status.

Additional information:

Requests for medical, religious, and other exemptions will be considered on an individual basis. Breakthrough T1D will comply with all federal, state, and local laws.

Breakthrough T1D supports a diverse and inclusive workforce.
Breakthrough T1D is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.