Sr. Cloud Engineer- First Dollar (Remote)

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Inspira Financial provides health, wealth, retirement, and benefits solutions that strengthen and simplify the health and wealth journey. With more than 7 million clients, representing over $62 billion in assets, Inspira works with thousands of employers, plan sponsors, recordkeepers, TPAs, and other institutional partners -- helping the people they care about plan, save, and invest for a brighter future. Inspira relentlessly pursues better outcomes for all with our automatic rollover services, health savings accounts, emergency savings funds, custody services, and more. Learn more at inspirafinancial.com .
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Job Summary & Responsibilities
We are seeking a talented Senior Cloud Engineer to join our growing team . This role is responsible for the design, administration, maintenance, and support of the enterprise infrastructure for a dynamic, growing business. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background in DevOps and automation coupled with excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders and translate business requirements into scalable and efficient solutions , and to implement DevOps culture and improve developer experience. Working within a team environment, the SCE participates directly in solution creation, providing hands-on support as well as operational support and training. This individual must be creative, client focused, solutions-driven, organized, and can thrive in a dynamic environment.
Duties & Responsibilities:

• Design and implement Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure and solutions

• Work in an Agile framework to identify and automate solutions that result in enhanced developer experience and increased developer productivity.

• Provide Domain expertise in DevOps culture, tooling, delivery methods and practices in GCP cloud.

• Maintaining and upgrading the deployment platforms as well as system infrastructure with Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform or similar tools.

• Support inbound calls/emails, maintaining tickets within the issue tracking application related to Infrastructure Support

• Cross train and mentor other team members to facilitate coverage.

• Maintaining and upgrading CI/CD pipelines to enable development teams to go faster with high quality and robust security posture.

• Understand and adhere to organization's architectural principles, patterns, and guidelines to ensure optimal solution development and implementation.

• Collaborate with architects to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards and strategies.

• Effectively utilize AI c oding assistants to accelerate developer productivity.

• Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices in solution architecture and technology innovation.

• Contribute towards defining and establish ing benchmarks, metrics, and quality measures.

• Focus on the implementation of cost-effective, extensible, and supportable solutions.

• Support the stability and resiliency of all relevant production processes, as well as, instituting a robust support model addressing process and application failures.

• Maintaining and upgrading observability, alerting and dashboard platforms using GCP tools and/or enterprise tools.

• Other duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications

• Education & Experience:
  
  • 7-10 years of experience in software or solution architecture roles, with a focus on designing and implementing complex, enterprise-level solutions using cloud platform
  • Expertise in Terraform HCL + Terraform CDK is a plus.
  • Strong knowledge of software architecture principles, design patterns, and architectural frameworks.
  • Strong understanding of Continuous Delivery patterns, Cloud foundational patterns, Observability patterns, Developer experience patterns.
  • Related certifications are a plus ( e.g. GCP Cloud Engineer)
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills .
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience
  
  Technical Proficiency :
  Strong understanding of software architecture principles, design patterns, Continuous Delivery patterns and architectural frameworks. Proficiency in various programming languages, technologies, and platforms relevant to the organization's technology stack.
  
  • Source Code: git
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Terraform CDK, Packer
  • AI: Claude Code, MS Copilot
  • CI/CD: Automated Pipelines using Github Actions
  • Build and Deployment: Node.js React, REST APIs, Mobile
  • Cloud Foundation: Enterprise Hub-and-Spoke Network Architecture , GCP foundations
  • Application Foundation: CloudFlare CDN, API Management, Cloud Functions CloudSQL ( Postgres SQL ) , Google Storage .
  • Observability: Google Cloud Operations .

Compensation & Benefits
$106,000- $135,000 per year