Cloud Reliability Engineer

Location: Spring, Texas, United States of America

Description -

Job Summary

This role is responsible for leading the design, engineering, deployment, and reliability of cloud platforms, infrastructure, and services. As a key member of the Cloud Reliability Engineering team, this position focuses on ensuring the availability, scalability, resiliency, security, and operational excellence of cloud-native solutions. The role drives automation, observability, incident management, and continuous improvement while partnering with engineering teams to deliver highly reliable and secure cloud services that support current and future business needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, deployment, and management of cloud platforms and infrastructure while aligning with business, architectural, and security requirements.
• Own the availability, reliability, scalability, and operational health of cloud services and platforms.
• Design and implement cloud solutions and infrastructure that protect and manage cloud-native applications and data.
• Build and own observability capabilities, including monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, dashboards, and reliability metrics.
• Establish and maintain Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and operational reliability standards.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, problem management, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure production environments meet HP security standards by coordinating security reviews, vulnerability remediation, compliance assessments, and penetration testing.
• Build standards and automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment, configuration management, and operational processes using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevSecOps practices.
• Partner with DevOps and engineering teams to develop tooling, automation, and platform capabilities supporting cloud operations, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Contribute to cloud platform strategy, architecture decisions, engineering roadmaps, and proof-of-concept initiatives.
• Drive capacity planning, performance optimization, disaster recovery, and business continuity readiness.
• Champion CI/CD, automated testing, and reliability engineering best practices.
• Create operational runbooks, technical standards, and architecture documentation, and provide mentorship on cloud reliability and operational excellence.

Education & Experience Recommended

Four-year or Graduate Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.

Typically has 7-10 years of work experience, preferably in distributed & cloud computing, software & cloud design, programming languages, agile development methodologies, or a related field.

Preferred Certifications

AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, CSA certified

Knowledge & Skills

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

High Availability & Disaster Recovery

Observability, Monitoring & Alerting

Incident Management & Root Cause Analysis

Service Level Objectives (SLOs) & SLIs

Performance & Capacity Engineering

AWS, Azure, and GCP

Kubernetes & Docker

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep)

DevOps & CI/CD

Cloud Security & Compliance

Python, Java, and APIs

Microservices & Distributed Systems

Automation Engineering

Impact & Scope

• Serves as a technical leader for cloud reliability, resiliency, availability, and operational excellence initiatives.
• Influences cloud platform strategy, operational standards, security posture, and reliability practices across multiple product and engineering teams.
• Leads complex projects and provides technical leadership for enterprise-scale cloud platforms and services.

Complexity

• Works on highly complex cloud infrastructure and distributed systems challenges where analysis requires evaluating multiple technical, operational, security, and business factors.
• Exercises substantial independent judgment in establishing reliability standards, operational policies, and engineering best practices.
• Drives resolution of critical production issues and reliability risks with enterprise-wide impact.

Pay & Benefits

The pay range for this role is $130,700 to $205,200 USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Benefits

• HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Generous time off policies, including;
• 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
• 11 paid holidays
• Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave
• US benefits overview https://hpbenefits.ce.alight.com/
• The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this
• posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.

Disclaimer

This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.

Job -

Software

Schedule -

Full time

Shift -

No shift premium (United States of America)

Travel -

Relocation -

No

Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) -

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Additional Locations: Vancouver, Washington, United States of America