Sr. Staff Cloud Engineer
San Jose, CA - USA
Job Summary
For over two decadeswevebeen at the forefront of the global energy transition pioneering solutions that empower critical industries to thrive in a rapidly digitizing energy-intensive world. From revolutionizing power for AI-driven data centers to ensuring resilience for hospitals electric grids manufacturing facilities and utilities our solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) and solid oxideelectrolyzer(SOEC) technologies are redefiningwhatspossible by delivering energy abundance for all. With more than 30000 fuel cell modules deployed worldwide we are the trusted partner for Fortune 100 companies and innovators alike. Ourcutting-edgesolutions enable unparalleled time-to-power capabilities reliability and sustainability ensuring our customersremainahead in a world where soaring energy demand and intensifying energy scarcity are rapidly becoming the new norm.
We are looking for a Sr. Staff Cloud Engineer to join our Cloud Engineering and Infrastructure team in one of todays most important technology areas. This role will be responsible for designing building automating and operating scalable cloud and hybrid infrastructure supporting enterprise applications production workloads AI/data platforms and modern DevOps ecosystems.
This role will report to Cloud Engineering leadership and will be based in San Jose CA.
Role and Responsibilities
Design implement and maintain scalable cloud and hybrid infrastructure supporting enterprise applications production workloads AI/data platforms and CI/CD ecosystems.
Architect highly available resilient secure and cost-optimized solutions across cloud platforms with deep focus on AWS.
Lead adoption and operationalization of Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform CloudFormation and related automation frameworks.
Develop cloud platform standards reusable infrastructure modules engineering patterns and best practices to improve consistency scalability and operational efficiency.
Build and mature observability capabilities using metrics logs traces dashboards and automated alerting to improve operational visibility and incident response.
Drive adoption of SRE practices including service level objectives error budgets incident management operational reviews capacity planning and reliability improvement.
Lead production readiness reviews root cause analysis performance optimization resiliency planning and operational risk assessments for critical systems.
Design build and optimize CI/CD pipelines using modern DevOps automation and GitOps practices.
Integrate security compliance and operational controls into infrastructure provisioning and deployment workflows.
Implement automated remediation rollback guardrails and self-healing infrastructure patterns to improve reliability and reduce operational risk.
Establish and enforce operational standards for monitoring patching change management disaster recovery and production support.
Partner closely with Security Compliance Infrastructure Application and Engineering teams to align cloud platforms with enterprise security hardening governance and regulatory requirements.
Evaluate emerging cloud automation AI/ML infrastructure and platform engineering capabilities to support Bloom Energys modernization and scalability goals.
Mentor cloud DevOps and infrastructure engineers while promoting engineering excellence ownership documentation and continuous improvement.
Participate in on-call rotations and incident escalation processes for critical production systems.
Skills and Experience
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering or a related field. Masters degree preferred.
At least 10 years of experience in cloud infrastructure platform engineering or DevOps including 3 or more years in a senior staff principal or technical leadership role.
Deep hands-on expertise in AWS cloud services cloud architecture cloud networking security resiliency and production operations.
Experience with Azure Google Cloud Oracle Cloud or multi-cloud environments is strongly preferred.
Proven experience designing and operating mission-critical production environments supporting enterprise applications and services.
Strong experience in cloud networking and network architecture including VPC Transit Gateway Cloud WAN Direct Connect firewalls routing and BGP.
Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools including Terraform and CloudFormation.
Experience with CI/CD and DevOps platforms such as Jenkins GitLab GitHub Actions ArgoCD or similar tools.
Experience with Kubernetes containers and modern platform engineering patterns.
Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Prometheus Grafana Datadog ELK CloudWatch or similar technologies.
Strong scripting and automation skills using Python Bash PowerShell or similar languages.
Strong understanding of IAM cloud security compliance controls encryption resiliency engineering and operational governance.
Experience implementing SRE practices incident management runbooks operational reviews and reliability improvement programs.
Strong troubleshooting analytical problem-solving and communication skills.
Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale cross-functional technical initiatives from strategy through execution.
Nice to have Skills
Experience supporting high-availability SaaS AI/ML manufacturing energy industrial technology or large-scale enterprise environments.
Experience with FinOps cloud cost optimization tagging governance chargeback/showback and multi-cloud cost management.
Experience with AI/ML infrastructure GPU workloads data platforms or large-scale analytics environments.
Experience developing reusable cloud platform modules golden patterns landing zones or internal developer platforms.
Experience with cloud governance compliance automation security guardrails and policy-as-code.
Cloud or platform certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Professional AWS DevOps Professional Kubernetes certifications Terraform certification or related credentials.
Bloom Energy is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We are committed to compliance with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race sex color religion national origin protected veteran status or on the basis of disability. Bloom Energy makes reasonable accommodations consistent with applicable laws for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant or employee with a disability who can perform the essential job functions unless undue hardship would result.
At Bloom Energy we are committed to supporting the well-being of our employees and their families. Our comprehensive benefits package for eligible employees includes competitive Medical Dental and Vision plans with a large employer contribution a 401(k) Retirement Plan with companymatch generousMental Health Support services Legal services virtual Physical Therapy access and Fertility & Family Forming benefits.
Bloom Energy is committed to fair andequitablecompensation practices.
FULL TIME ROLE ONLY:The total compensation for this position includes standard company benefits and is based onvarious factorsincluding but not limited to relevant skills and experience.
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About Company
Bloom Energy’s leading solid-oxide platform for the distributed generation of electricity and hydrogen production is changing the future of energy.