About the role

Cloud Engineer managing production infrastructure using AWS EKS and Terraform. Improving developer experience with self-service tooling and platform reliability in a high-growth SaaS company.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain production infrastructure on AWS EKS using Terraform and Helm
Develop Shipyard's self-service capabilities from CLI tooling to GitOps pipelines via ArgoCD
Own your on-call responsibilities with care
Collaborate directly with product managers to understand where platform tooling creates friction
Communicate clearly and consistently through documentation, code reviews, and team discussions

Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments, including cluster operations, Helm, RBAC, networking, and debugging workloads
Terraform proficiency that goes beyond syntax: you've written modules, managed remote state, and have a point of view on structure
AWS fluency in core services as well as container orchestration services
A platform engineering mindset: you've built something other engineers consume
Comfort with observability concepts beyond basic monitoring (SLIs, SLOs, structured logging, distributed tracing)
Experience with scripting in Python or Bash to automate operational tasks
Familiarity with AI coding tools like Cursor or Claude Code as a genuine accelerant is a plus
3 to 5 years of infrastructure or platform engineering experience