Senior Cloud Engineer - US-CA-Fremont (1003), United States
$137,000 - $287,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 4 September 2026 by the employer.
Lead the design, implementation, and management of cloud data technology with a primary focus on Azure.
About the role
This role oversees the design, implementation, and management of cloud data technology, focusing on Azure environments and supporting AWS and GCP. This hands-on leadership position provides technical direction while actively supporting day-to-day infrastructure activities.
What you'll do
- Lead the design, deployment, and management of scalable, secure, and highly available cloud data technology solutions across Microsoft Azure environments.
- Define cloud architecture standards and design guidelines, participate in architecture reviews, and help teams implement well-architected framework principles.
- Provision, configure, and manage Azure cloud resources, including virtual machines, containers, serverless services, and IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions.
- Implement cloud governance, identity and access management, security controls, compliance practices, and business continuity/disaster recovery processes.
- Optimize cloud cost, performance, reliability, and operational efficiency through monitoring, automation, standard procedures, and incident response practices.
- Drive AI adoption by identifying opportunities to apply AI-enabled tools and automation that improve cloud operations, engineering productivity, monitoring, and service reliability.
What you'll need
- 12+ years of experience in cloud engineering, platform operations, enterprise data technology modernization, or large-scale technology transformation initiatives.
- Strong experience designing and operating cloud technology with Microsoft Azure as the preferred platform.
- Strong understanding of cloud architecture, infrastructure as code, networking, identity and access management, monitoring, automation, high availability, and disaster recovery principles.
- Hands-on experience with cloud security, governance frameworks, resource provisioning, configuration management, CI/CD integration, scripting, and operational support for enterprise environments.
- Strong understanding of cloud governance, lifecycle management, metadata, access controls, compliance requirements, and operational quality frameworks.
- Experience with AWS or GCP is a plus.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting enterprise application platforms, data integrations, APIs, databases, manufacturing systems, or business-critical operational environments.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Relevant cloud technology certification in Azure, AWS, or GCP.
Skills: Azure cloud resources, cloud governance, infrastructure as code, CI/CD integration, AI adoption
This role has been open 40 days — well below the 50-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
973
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Median days open
50 d
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Median salary
$235k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Lam Research | All employers we track in this specialty (973 roles · 85 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 12 | 973 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 83 | 6136 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 63 d | 50 d (+13 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $235k |
Skills observed across this category: Azure cloud resources, cloud governance, infrastructure as code, CI/CD integration, AI adoption
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 289 open roles · median 44 d
- Qualcomm · 61 open roles · median 57 d
- AMD · 57 open roles · median 21 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 90 d
- Intel Corporation · 40 open roles · median 9 d
- Cerebras · 39 open roles · median 80 d
How we counted: 973 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 85 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.