Cloud Automation Engineer - Remote
About the position At CentralSquare, we don’t just build software - we power public servants and uplift communities with Hero-Grade Technology. Every line of code, every feature we deliver helps heroes across North America protect, serve, and save lives. When you join us, you become part of a mission-driven team creating technology that makes communities safer and stronger. Your Growth Matters. We believe heroes deserve opportunities to rise. That’s why we invest in your career with mentorship, learning programs, and clear paths for advancement. If you’re motivated, there’s no limit to how far you can go. Your Commitment Deserves Reward. We offer competitive compensation and a benefits package designed to support your life inside and outside of work—tuition reimbursement, parental leave, paid volunteer hours, and unlimited PTO. Plus, our flexible work environment gives you the freedom to balance your heroic work with personal well-being, whether you’re in the office or remote. Join us and help build the tools that power real-life heroes. Together, we make a difference. This Cloud Engineer will lead architecture and end-to-end delivery of containerized infrastructure and pipelines across AWS (primary) and AKS (secondary), with hands-on ownership of Kubernetes operations and platform engineering. They will drive maturity in IaC-first, no-clickops culture. Responsibilities • Build/operate EKS (or AKS): cluster provisioning, node groups, upgrades, add-ons (CNI, CSI), autoscaling, RBAC, network policies. • Ship software via CI/CD (Azure DevOps, Jenkins): pipelines, artifacts, environments, Helm/Kustomize releases, ArgoCD deployments; • Define infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation; Ansible for config) and keep plans clean/drift-free. • Observability: CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana; SLOs, alerts, runbooks, incident response. • Security & compliance: secrets management, IAM roles for service accounts, image scanning, policies, change controls. • Partner with app teams; troubleshoot across app, container, network, and infra layers. Benefits • tuition reimbursement • parental leave • paid volunteer hours • unlimited PTO • flexible work environment