Sr. Cloud Engineer

RYZ Labs is looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to join one of our client’s teams, from the sports merchandising industry!

This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives in high-ownership environments, can identify opportunities without being asked, and is capable of designing and delivering a scalable cloud foundation that elevates engineering productivity and operational excellence across the organization.
As a senior-level individual contributor, you will partner directly with engineering leadership to define our cloud strategy, introduce best-in-class infrastructure practices, and create reusable patterns and catalogs that standardize how teams build, deploy, and operate software.

Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement scalable, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure using AWS services and industry best practices.
- Build, evolve, and maintain their infrastructure-as-code foundation using Terraform, with an emphasis on reusable modules and service templates.
- Develop and maintain standardized service catalogs and infrastructure patterns to accelerate developer onboarding and reduce duplication.
- Develop patterns, improve, and support CI/CD pipelines to ensure fast, reliable, and compliant software delivery.
- Collaborate closely with application teams to design cloud-native architectures and guide them through implementation.
- Drive cross-team initiatives that improve reliability, security, observability, and automation across the platform.
- Lead technical planning, estimation, architectural reviews, and documentation for cloud initiatives.
- Identify cloud optimization opportunities (performance, scalability, cost) and implement strategies to address them.

Basic Qualifications:
- 7+ years of hands-on experience building and supporting production cloud infrastructure.
- Strong self-starter with a track record of independently identifying problems and delivering impactful solutions.
- Demonstrated technical leadership experience, including guiding architectural decisions, reviewing designs, and influencing engineering best practices.
- Deep proficiency with AWS (networking, IAM, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, VPC design, ALBs/NLBs, S3, etc.).
- Strong expertise with Terraform, including module design, workspace strategies, and enterprise-scale patterns.
- Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines, ideally with GitHub Actions.
- Experience standardizing infrastructure and building service / module catalogs or internal frameworks to drive reuse.
- Solid understanding of cloud security principles, observability ecosystems, and modern DevOps practices.
- Effective communicator able to collaborate across engineering, product, and leadership teams.
- Experience with Kubernetes (EKS preferably), container orchestration, or service mesh technologies.

What makes you stand out:
- Prior experience as the first or early infrastructure/cloud hire in a growing engineering org.
- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, SysOps Administrator).
- Experience with cost governance, FinOps practices, or multi-account AWS architectures.

About RYZ Labs:
RYZ Labs is a startup studio built in 2021 by two lifelong entrepreneurs. The founders of RYZ have worked at some of the world's largest tech companies and some of the most iconic consumer brands. They have lived and worked in Argentina for many years and have decades of experience in Latam. What brought them together is the passion for the early phases of company creation and the idea of attracting the brightest talents in order to build industry-defining companies in a post-pandemic world.

Our teams are remote and distributed throughout the US and Latam. They use the latest cutting-edge technologies in cloud computing to create applications that are scalable and resilient. We aim to provide diverse product solutions for different industries, planning to build a large number of startups in the upcoming years.

At RYZ, you will find yourself working with autonomy and efficiency, owning every step of your development. We provide an environment of opportunities, learning, growth, expansion and challenging projects. You will deepen your experience while sharing and learning from a team of great professionals and specialists.

About RYZ Labs:
RYZ Labs is a startup studio built in 2021 by two lifelong entrepreneurs. The founders of RYZ have worked at some of the world's largest tech companies and some of the most iconic consumer brands. They have lived and worked in Argentina for many years and have decades of experience in Latam. What brought them together is the passion for the early phases of company creation and the idea of attracting the brightest talents in order to build industry-defining companies in a post-pandemic world.

Our teams are remote and distributed throughout the US and Latam. They use the latest cutting-edge technologies in cloud computing to create applications that are scalable and resilient. We aim to provide diverse product solutions for different industries, planning to build a large number of startups in the upcoming years.

At RYZ, you will find yourself working with autonomy and efficiency, owning every step of your development. We provide an environment of opportunities, learning, growth, expansion and challenging projects. You will deepen your experience while sharing and learning from a team of great professionals and specialists.

Our values and what to expect:
- Customer First Mentality - every decision we make should be made through the lens of the customer.
- Bias for Action - urgency is critical, expect that the timeline to get something done is accelerated.
- Ownership - step up if you see an opportunity to help, even if not your core responsibility.
- Humility and Respect - be willing to learn, be vulnerable, and treat everyone that interacts with RYZ with respect.
- Frugality - being frugal and cost-conscious helps us do more with less.
- Deliver Impact - get things done in the most efficient way.
- Raise our Standards - always be looking to improve our processes, our team, our expectations. Status quo is not good enough and never should be.