Senior Staff Cloud Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Elite Technology is a leading, independent technology company that helps law firms drive profitability through improved operational effectiveness, increased efficiency, and greater visibility across their business. Our cutting-edge digital financial management and business operations solutions drive success for firms around the globe by improving finance and accounting operations, including billing, invoicing, payments, and financial reporting. By bringing together data, insights, and tools, we enable law firm leaders to make informed business decisions to build and manage their businesses more effectively and efficiently.

Job Description:

Our Senior Staff Cloud Engineer will play a key role in scaling and optimizing our cloud engineering and DevOps capabilities, supporting mission-critical software delivery and infrastructure objectives across the organization. This position is ideal for a hands-on technologist who thrives at the intersection of cloud architecture, automation, and software development. The role involves designing and implementing scalable cloud infrastructure, driving DevOps best practices, and enabling engineering teams to deliver high-quality applications efficiently across multi-cloud environments.

What You'll Do:

• Architect and implement cost-effective, high-performance Azure cloud solutions, including migrations from on-premises environments.
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to automate application testing, release, and deployment processes.
• Build highly automated and scalable cloud infrastructure that accelerates product innovation.
• Define and execute a DevOps strategy to establish a center of excellence within the organization.
• Write production-quality infrastructure-as-code using tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or ARM templates.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, CircleCI, GitHub, or related platforms.
• Monitor and optimize systems using observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog.
• Participate in architectural design discussions and contribute to long-term infrastructure planning.
• Mentor and coach DevOps engineers to elevate team expertise and standardize best practices.
• Provide on-call production support and drive solutions to improve system reliability.
• Perform other duties as assigned to support the overall goals and objectives of the department/company.

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience designing, analyzing, and managing large-scale, distributed systems in a multi-cloud environment.
• Proficient programming skills in Go, Python, or a comparable language.
• Deep expertise in containerization and Kubernetes, including automating cluster deployments.
• Extensive experience with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, Pulumi, or ARM templates.
• Proven experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitLab, CircleCI, GitHub, or similar tools.
• Proficiency with observability and monitoring platforms like Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
• Demonstrated ability to lead architectural conversations and deliver scalable solutions.
• Strong mentoring skills and a passion for enabling engineering excellence.
• Excellent communication skills and experience working with technical and executive stakeholders.
• Availability to participate in an on-call rotation and resolve critical issues in production environments.

Benefits:

• Competitive Compensation Package ($150,000 - $200,000 base salary + variable component)
• Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage (Health, Dental, Vision)
• Retirement Savings Plan with an Employer Contribution
• Professional Development Opportunities
• Time Off
• Wellness Initiatives
• Employee Assistance Program
• Generous Global Parental Leave
• Calm, free premium subscription
• Employee Discount Program

Please note that we do not offer sponsorship for this position.

Additional Information

At Elite Technology, we embrace an employee-centric, flexible work model that empowers you to do your best work in the environment that suits you. However, we also recognize the importance of in-person collaboration for key moments that truly matter.

In our flexible remote approach, you have the freedom to choose a workspace within your home country that best fits your needs. Our corporate offices are located in New York City, Los Angeles, Costa Rica, and the Philippines, providing additional options for those who prefer or need a hybrid work environment.

Our diverse global team spans the U.S., Canada, U.K., Costa Rica, the Philippines, and Australia. Please note that at this time, we are unable to hire employees located in Quebec or Ontario Provinces, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Louisiana, and Oklahoma .

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

We are not accepting applications submitted through recruiting agencies.