The Senior Staff Engineer – Cloud is a senior, hands-on technical leadership role responsible for defining, designing, building, and evolving VERSANT’s cloud infrastructure and platforms. This engineer will serve as a technical authority for cloud infrastructure, helping establish architecture, engineering standards, and reusable patterns across the organization. 

The role focuses primarily on AWS at enterprise scale, including multi-account environments, AWS Organizations, Control Tower, Identity Center, networking, and shared cloud services. The Senior Staff Engineer will lead the design of complex cloud solutions, establish cloud engineering standards, and drive automation through infrastructure as code and reusable infrastructure patterns. 

This role works across engineering teams and technology domains to solve complex infrastructure challenges and provide technical direction for strategic initiatives. The engineer will partner closely with application, infrastructure, network, security, and architecture teams and provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers. 

VERSANT operates a mix of legacy applications and modern cloud-native workloads, and this role will help define approaches for migrating, modernizing, and supporting these systems while ensuring consistent architecture and operational practices. 

Strong knowledge of hybrid connectivity between on-premises data centers, third parties, and cloud environments is required, including cross-account resource sharing and networking. Experience with Azure and GCP is a strong plus as the organization evolves its broader cloud capabilities. 

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Architecture & Technical Leadership 

• Serve as a senior technical authority for cloud infrastructure and architecture. 

• Define and drive cloud architecture, engineering standards, patterns, and best practices across the organization. 

• Lead the design and implementation of complex, scalable, secure, highly available, and resilient cloud solutions. 

• Lead technical and architecture reviews for significant cloud initiatives. 

• Provide technical leadership for initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams and technology domains. 

• Evaluate new cloud technologies and provide recommendations for adoption and standardization. 

• Mentor engineers and help raise engineering standards across the organization. 

Cloud Infrastructure Engineering 

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure primarily within AWS. 

• Architect environments across large multi-account AWS organizations using AWS Organizations and Control Tower. 

• Design secure and scalable cloud networking architectures, including VPC design, routing, transit networking, private connectivity, and shared services. 

• Develop reusable cloud architecture and infrastructure patterns that can be adopted across teams and environments. 

Automation & Infrastructure as Code 

• Establish standards and patterns for infrastructure as code using technologies such as Terraform and CloudFormation. 

• Design and develop reusable infrastructure modules and automation frameworks. 

• Drive automation of environment provisioning, configuration, governance, and lifecycle management. 

• Identify opportunities to reduce manual operations and improve consistency through automation. 

CI/CD & Platform Enablement 

• Define patterns for integrating cloud infrastructure provisioning into CI/CD and delivery workflows. 

• Establish reliable and repeatable approaches for infrastructure and application deployment. 

• Partner with application and platform teams to enable teams to consume standardized cloud services and infrastructure patterns. 

Identity, Security & Governance 

• Define and implement cloud identity and access patterns using AWS IAM and AWS Identity Center (SSO). 

• Partner with security teams to establish security controls, logging, compliance guardrails, and governance across cloud environments. 

• Ensure cloud architectures follow company standards for security, monitoring, reliability, and governance. 

Hybrid Connectivity & Networking 

• Design connectivity between on-premises data centers, third-party environments, and AWS using Direct Connect, VPN, and other hybrid networking technologies. 

• Define scalable cross-account networking, resource-sharing, and shared-services architectures. 

• Partner with network engineering teams on enterprise connectivity and cloud networking strategy. 

Operations & Reliability 

• Provide technical leadership during complex incidents and infrastructure troubleshooting. 

• Identify systemic reliability and operational issues and drive long-term solutions. 

• Improve platform reliability, scalability, performance, and observability through architecture and automation. 

• Help establish operational standards and best practices across cloud environments.