Senior Cloud Engineer (Remote, US)

About the role

The Senior Cloud Engineer (remote US) will design, build, and maintain cloud‑hosted services and platforms that power the company’s SaaS offerings, ensuring scalable, secure deployments while collaborating with security, operations, and product teams.

About the company

Smile Digital Health, founded in 2016 in Toronto, delivers fast, secure, compliant data infrastructures for health‑focused, data‑intensive sectors, aiming to improve global health through innovative data management solutions; it has 201‑500 employees and operates in medical device, EHR, and mHealth domains.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience in cloud development or infrastructure engineering
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Proven experience designing and building SaaS applications and multi‑cloud solutions
• Understanding of DevOps and hands‑on experience with tooling such as GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps
• Working knowledge of public cloud SDKs/APIs (Azure SDK, AWS SDK, GCP SDK)
• Strong experience building REST or GraphQL APIs in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript
• Solid knowledge of Docker and containerization best practices; experience deploying containers in Kubernetes and OpenShift
• Experience authoring and maintaining Helm charts and Operators for complex deployments
• Familiarity with monitoring/logging/tracing tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Elasticsearch/Loki)
• Strong understanding of cloud hosting (AWS and Azure preferred) and cloud storage, secrets, and security services
• Experience with HashiCorp Terraform to build and deploy complex environments
• Ability to work in cross‑functional teams and communicate effectively in writing and verbally
• Self‑motivated, detail‑oriented with strong problem‑solving and troubleshooting skills
• Preferred: Boto3 and AWS CDK experience
• Preferred: Familiarity with GitOps tooling and principles