Senior Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer

Atlanta, GA

Type: Contract

Category: Engineer

Industry: Retail

Reference ID: JN -

Date Posted: 09/22/2025

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Description:

Location -Atlanta GA (Hybrid - 3 days a week in office)

Are you a seasoned cloud professional with a passion for designing and optimizing multi-cloud infrastructures? We are seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer within the Atlanta, GA area to lead the comprehensive lifecycle management of our cloud environments, ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.

We can facilitate w2 and corp-to-corp consultants. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $ 58,834.00 - $ 158,800.00 / yr. w2

Responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities:

• Design & Deploy: Collaborate with development teams, architects, and security teams to design cloud-native solutions and integrate applications seamlessly with cloud infrastructure.

• Optimize & Automate: Create scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions across AWS and GCP. Lead Infrastructure as Code (IaC) development using Terraform or CloudFormation.

• Enhance CI/CD: Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines for rapid and reliable deployment.

• Cost Management: Monitor and optimize cloud spending, implementing cost-saving measures and developing reporting mechanisms.

• Security & Compliance: Enforce security best practices and compliance to protect cloud environments and data integrity.

Experience Requirements:

What We're Looking For:

• Experience: 7+ years in cloud technologies, with expertise in multi-cloud or hybrid environments.

• Technical Skills: Proficiency in IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation), scripting languages (Python, Bash/Shell, PowerShell), and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP).

• Cloud Networking: Hands-on experience with VPC, security groups, direct connect, subnets, load balancers, Route 53, Aviatrix, VPN, and Transit Gateways.

• FinOps Expertise: Drive FinOps best practices by monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing cloud spend.

• Leadership: Mentor junior cloud engineers and develop comprehensive documentation for cloud infrastructure and processes.

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.

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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company for human-powered solutions. For over 30 years, Eliassen has helped thousands of companies reach further and achieve more with their technology solutions, financial, risk & compliance, and advisory solutions, and clinical solutions. With offices from coast to coast and throughout Europe, Eliassen provides a local community presence, balanced with international reach. Eliassen Group strives to positively impact the lives of their employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which they operate.

Eliassen Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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