Remote Position
[Remote] Senior Cloud Operations Engineer
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dragos is a global xOT cybersecurity company protecting critical infrastructure systems from cyber threats. The company is seeking a Senior Cloud Operations Engineer to own the operational health of its customer cloud fleet across Azure, AWS, and GCP, with a focus on reliability, infrastructure-as-code, automation, and scalable operations.
Responsibilities
- Operate, maintain, and improve the Dragos cloud fleet across Azure, AWS, and GCP
- Own the full customer environment lifecycle -- onboarding, configuration, upgrades, and off boarding
- Build and maintain Terraform-based infrastructure-as-code for customer environment provisioning and fleet standardization
- Manage fleet health, drift detection, patching, and version lifecycle management at customer scale
- Design and enforce multi-tenant isolation patterns -- blast radius containment, RBAC at scale, and cross-account access controls
- Configure and maintain cloud networking components across all three providers (VPCs/VNets, peering, transit gateways, DNS, firewalls, load balancers)
- Manage cloud-to-OT/on-prem connectivity for customer environments
- Implement and maintain IAM, secrets management, and compliance posture across cloud providers
- Build and maintain Datadog observability -- monitors, dashboards, log pipelines, and SLOs
- Participate in an on-call rotation (PagerDuty) for the Dragos cloud fleet -- triage, respond to, and resolve production incidents across customer environments
- Drive SRE practices: define SLOs, manage error budgets, maintain runbooks, and lead post-incident reviews
- Support audit and compliance activities including evidence collection for FedRAMP, SOC2, and customer-specific requirements
- Identify and eliminate toil through automation and process improvement
Skills
- 4+ years of hands-on cloud operations experience across one or more of Azure, AWS, or GCP
- Strong proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code (primary IaC tool at Dragos)
- Experience operating cloud environments at scale -- fleet management, patching, upgrades, drift detection
- Hands-on experience with multi-tenant cloud architectures and customer-facing environment management
- Solid knowledge of cloud networking: VPCs/VNets, peering, transit gateways, DNS, firewalls, and hybrid connectivity
- Experience with IAM across AWS, Azure Entra ID, and/or GCP -- roles, policies, federation, SSO
- Proficiency with Datadog for monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and log pipelines
- Comfort with on-call responsibilities -- this role participates in a PagerDuty rotation for the customer cloud fleet
- Experience with SRE practices: SLO definition, error budget management, incident response, and blameless post-mortems
- Strong scripting skills in Python and/or Bash
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, SOC2, NIST CSF) and audit evidence collection
- Strong ownership mindset and accountability for production stability
- Excellent communication, documentation, and collaboration skills
- Experience with all three major cloud providers: Azure, AWS, and GCP
- Experience managing cloud environments for external customers (customer-managed and vendor-managed models)
- Cybersecurity Experience
- Familiarity with cloud-to-OT/ICS network connectivity and segmentation
- Experience with secrets management tooling: HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, GCP Secret Manager
- Experience with cloud-native fleet tools: AWS Systems Manager, Azure Arc, GCP Fleet Management
- Proficiency with policy-as-code tools (OPA, Sentinel, AWS SCPs, Azure Policy)
- Experience with FinOps practices and cloud cost optimization
- Familiarity with Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) tooling
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline authoring (GitHub Actions)
- Passion for automation and continuously improving operational efficiency
Benefits
- Competitive Equity Package
- Comprehensive Benefits Plan
- Remote-first work environment
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