Fortrea · 12 hours ago
Senior Cloud Operations Engineer
Remote_United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$160K/yr - $210K/yr
8+ years expFortrea is dedicated to improving healthcare through comprehensive genetic information. They are seeking a Senior Cloud Operations Engineer to design, automate, and operate next-generation cloud infrastructure, focusing on creating secure and self-service platforms for developers.
Clinical TrialsHealth Care
No H1B
Responsibilities
Own operations across multi-account architectures (via AWS Organizations, Identity Center with ABAC, and SCPs) ensuring security, compliance, and cost efficiency
Build and maintain self-service Terraform modules, pipelines, and automation for provisioning resources and bootstrapping applications, championing reproducible infrastructure through CI/CD workflows (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
Automate relentlessly, define best practices, and work across engineering teams to improve reliability, cost efficiency, and developer experience
Collaborate to improve resilience, scaling, and performance
Implement and monitor security controls in partnership with InfoSec
Mentor engineers across platform and application teams, advocating for best practices and driving standardization, automation, and operational excellence
Serve as an escalation point for complex operational incidents and post-mortem analysis
Participate in an on-call rotation and perform additional duties, as assigned
Qualification
Required
8+ years of relevant work experience or any equivalent combination of training, education, and experience that provides the required skills, knowledge and abilities, including 3+ years with AWS at scale
A self-starter able with the ability to work independently
Expert-level proficiency in Terraform, including a deep knowledge of state file internals, provider architecture, execution DAGs, and the implementation details of Terraform's core engine
A detailed understanding of AWS services and principles
Strong scripting ability in Bash, Python, or Go
Experience with GitOps, CI/CD (Github Actions), Docker, Kubernetes, and hybrid or datacenter environments (LDAP, networking, access control, monitoring)
A passion for lifelong learning, always pushing yourself, your teammates, and our systems to be the best they can be
Preferred
Experience with Azure, GCP, Okta, and Cloud Native tools (Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus)
Experience with database administration, performance improvement, query optimization, etc., preferably PostgreSQL
Experience with compliance and risk management methodologies, frameworks, and principles (e.g. HIPAA, SOX, NIST, CSA, ITIL, etc.)
A systems-thinking mindset — connecting security, reliability, and efficiency
A bias for automation and elimination of manual toil
The ability to bridge operational and developer teams through clear communication and mentorship
A pragmatic design approach: building processes that scale without over-engineering
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Life
STD/LTD
401(k)
Paid Time Off (PTO) or Flexible Time Off (FTO)
Tuition Reimbursement
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Company
Fortrea
Fortrea is a provider of comprehensive Phase I through IV clinical trial management, clinical pharmacology, patient access solutions.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Anshul Thakral
Chief Executive Officer
Agnieszka Gallagher
General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Corporate Secretary
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