Hybrid Senior Cloud Engineer

at ClickBank

• Job title: Senior Cloud Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, Apache, AWS, DNS, DynamoDB, EC2, Kubernetes, Linux, MySQL, NGINX, Python, SaltStack, Terraform, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Boise, United States

About the role

• Senior Cloud Engineer overseeing AWS services while ensuring reliability and security at ClickBank. Leading cloud engineering with a focus on infrastructure performance and DevSecOps practices.

Responsibilities

• You will lead the implementation and support of internal and customer-facing services, managing everything from VPC networking and storage to container orchestration via EKS.
• Using Terraform, you will build and maintain configuration management and orchestration tools to automate environment provisioning.
• Your primary focus is infrastructure reliability and performance optimization, you will also identify and implement improvements to our CI/CD processes (GitHub Action, Atlantis, ArgoCD) by integrating security scanning and vulnerability management.
• Your responsibilities include monitoring logs for anomalous behavior, managing access to IT assets via IAM, and participating in the primary on-call rotation.
• You will partner closely with product development teams to provide operational support, troubleshoot complex production issues, and ensure that our "paved roads" for deployment are both fast and secure.

Requirements

• Education & Experience: 4-year college degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or comparable IT experience, with a minimum of 7 years in systems administration or platform engineering (at least 4 years focused specifically on AWS).
• AWS Expertise: Proven experience building and maintaining scalable Linux systems and virtualization technologies within AWS.
• Infrastructure as Code: Deep proficiency with IaC tools, specifically Terraform or CloudFormation, to manage multi-account environments.
• Containers: Hands-on experience with production Kubernetes (EKS) deployments and container security.
• Automation & DevOps: Working familiarity with provisioning, orchestration, and continuous delivery; must be proficient in Git and at least one scripting language (Python, BASH, or Go).
• Networking & Protocols: Thorough knowledge of DNS, Internet protocols, web servers (Nginx/Apache), and load balancing technologies (ALB/NLB).
• Security Mindset: Experience integrating security standards and tools into the DevOps lifecycle; familiarity with PCI and information technology security frameworks.
• Soft Skills: Must be self-directed, proactive, and action-oriented with excellent diagnostic, troubleshooting, and organizational skills.
• Leadership experience: Ability to lead technical projects, influence stakeholders, and mentor junior team members.
• **Preferred Skills:**
• AWS Services: Advanced experience with EKS, EC2, CloudWatch, S3, IAM, Route53, SNS, and SQS, and WAF.
• Stability/Scalability: CloudFront, WAF, EKS, Karpenter
• Data Systems: Experience with Amazon RDS, MySQL, DynamoDB.
• Security-first approach: Experience with AWS security services (GuardDuty, Security Hub, KMS) and integrating security scanning tools (Snyk, Checkov, Trivy) into the build process.
• CI/CD Tools: Experience with GitHub Action, ArgoCD, ArgoRollout, and Atlantis
• Advanced Automation: Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible or Salt.
• Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.
• Familiarity with PCI and information technology security standards.

Benefits

• ClickBank pays for 96% of benefit premiums for our employee and children
• Company HSA contributions
• Total compensation = competitive base + bonus
• 401k + company match and contribution 100% vested
• Paid Time Off - very competitive, and it's ok if you use it!
• Flex Days - additional 7 days!
• 10 Paid Holidays off, including your birthday!
• Free snacks and coffee if in the office (lots of variety with healthy alternatives plus a fancy espresso machine)
• Wellness Reimbursement
• Frequent company events (bowling, parties, team-buildings, happy-hours)
• .....and more!