Lead Cloud Engineer

Lead Cloud Engineer 

Location: USA

Remote

Job Description: Lead Cloud Engineer 

About CentralSquare Technologies

CentralSquare is a unique enterprise software company whose mission is to build safer, smarter, more connected communities. More than 8,000 public sector agencies trust CentralSquare solutions each and every day. We serve governments of all sizes, from small towns to major cities, to make delivering public services less costly and more efficient.

Job Description

What We’re About

At CentralSquare, you’ll get the opportunity to work in a collaborative environment within a company that builds complex web-based enterprise applications for our Public Servants across North America.

Looking to grow your career? That’s great! We believe in growing and cultivating careers here. There is plenty of room for growth for motivated people.

Hard work should be rewarded. We are committed to providing competitive compensation with a great benefits package, including tuition reimbursement, parental leave, paid volunteer hours, and unlimited PTO. Our flexible work environment also enables you to take advantage of an excellent work-life balance whether you are in office or working remotely.

The Role
This Cloud Engineer will lead architecture and end-to-end delivery of containerized infrastructure and pipelines across AWS (primarily), with hands-on ownership of Kubernetes operations and platform engineering. They will drive maturity in IaC, GitOps, and DevSecOps practices across teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and operate production-grade EKS (or AKS) clusters, including:
  • Cluster lifecycle management (blue/green or in-place upgrades)
  • Add-ons: CNI (e.g., VPC CNI, Calico), CSI drivers, metrics-server, OPA/Gatekeeper, AWS Load Balancer Controller
  • Multitenancy, RBAC standardization, network policy enforcement
• Define and enforce CI/CD best practices:
  • Architect and review pipelines (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
  • Automate delivery using Helm/Kustomize, ArgoCD, and progressive delivery (canary, blue-green)
• Infrastructure as Code & Automation:
  • Own Terraform modules for multi-account/multi-region AWS infrastructure
  • Integrate Ansible for configuration tasks and CloudFormation where legacy requires
• Observability and Reliability Engineering:
  • Implement observability stacks using either Datadog or Prometheus/Grafana.
• Security, Compliance, and Governance:
  • Champion least privilege, IAM roles for service accounts (IRSA), secrets encryption
  • Work closely with GRC/Security to meet PCI/SOC2/FedRAMP requirements
• Mentorship and Cross-Team Collaboration:
  • Serve as a technical lead and mentor for Cloud Engineers and SREs
  • Collaborate with architecture, development, and security teams on platform evolution
  • Lead engineering design reviews and advocate for operational excellence

Skills & Requirements

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years in Cloud/DevOps/SRE roles, with 5+ years running production Kubernetes (EKS/AKS)
• Deep AWS expertise: VPC design, IAM, EKS, ALB/NLB, KMS, CloudWatch, S3, ECR, Route 53
• Expert in Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform; experience with Ansible and CloudFormation
• Proven experience building CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• Proficient with Helm, Kustomize, GitOps workflows (ArgoCD/Flux)

Nice to Have

• Service Mesh experience (Istio, App Mesh, Linkerd)
• Progressive delivery (Argo Rollouts)
• Kubernetes certs (CKA, CKAD)