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Senior Cloud Engineer

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Hybrid
Austin, TX
Senior level
Hybrid
Austin, TX
Senior level
As a Senior Cloud Engineer at Q2, you'll design and optimize infrastructure solutions, collaborate across teams, and mentor peers while ensuring high-performance, secure cloud environments.
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As passionate about our people as we are about our mission.

What We’re All About:

Q2 is proud of delivering our mobile banking platform and technology solutions, globally, to more than 22 million end users across our 1,300 financial institutions and fintech clients.  At Q2, our mission is simple: Build strong, diverse communities by strengthening their financial institutions. We accomplish that by investing in the communities where both our customers and employees serve and live.

What Makes Q2 Special?

Being as passionate about our people as we are about our mission. We celebrate our employees in many ways, including our “Circle of Awesomeness” award ceremony and day of employee celebration among others! We invest in the growth and development of our team members through ongoing learning opportunities, mentorship programs, internal mobility, and meaningful leadership relationships. We also know that nothing builds trust and collaboration like having fun. We hold an annual Dodgeball for Charity event at our Q2 Stadium in Austin, inviting other local companies to play, and community organizations we support to raise money and awareness together.

As a Senior Cloud Operations Engineer at Q2, you’ll play a pivotal role in implementing and optimizing infrastructure solutions that power our global digital banking platform. You’ll collaborate across engineering, security, and operations teams to deliver high-performance, secure, and scalable systems in both datacenter and cloud environments (AWS & Azure). This role is ideal for a seasoned technologist with a passion for automation, system reliability, and continuous improvement. You’ll lead complex initiatives, mentor peers, and help shape the future of financial technology infrastructure.

From developing deep Q2 application knowledge, managing our container orchestration platform, supporting private and public cloud environments, learning how to leverage automation to drive efficiencies, and troubleshooting critical infrastructure, your opportunities to make a significant impact at Q2 are limitless.

A Typical Day:

  • Design and develop infrastructure solutions for enterprise business applications to be hosted in a datacenter and public cloud (AWS and Azure)
  • Partner with Software Engineers and Database Administrators to deliver a 10x increase in full stack performance
  • Collaborate with Security Engineering to embed best in class threat management capabilities
  • Join forces with Site Reliability Engineering to optimize production, performance and implement automation to minimize risk and reduce toil.
  • Maintain, test and optimize disaster recovery services to ensure we have a contingency plan to failover our highly available platform
  • Serve as the Subject Matter Expert, distill complex technical issues into consumable communication and lead cross-functional teams.
  • Optimize storage costs and data consumption services
  • Promptly restore system services by diagnosing problems, making critical decisions and remediating root causes.
  • Share your knowledge with a peer, document your process, and facilitate lessons learned reviews
  • Participate in an on-call rotation to assist with customer-impacting outages
  • Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree and minimum of 8+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a 
    Master’s degree
  • Experience designing and integrating complex systems, performing high-level optimizations, and leading large-scale cross-functional initiatives
  • Advanced knowledge of Linux and Windows Systems Administration
  • Fluent in VMWare and cloud environments such as AWS and Azure
  • Strong understanding of load balancing and traffic management
  • Understanding of security protocols and threat management implementation
  • Knowledge of CI/CD Pipelines implementation for applications and infrastructure
  • Proficiency with Automation / Orchestration tools such as Ansible and HashiCorp Consul, Nomad, Vault, Packer, and Terraform or equivalent technologies
  • Real-world experience integrating Data Eventing / Messaging Bus capability via technology such as Kakfa or Rabbit MQ is a plus
  • Capable of embedding Monitoring / Logging technologies such as Elastic Stack, Prometheus / Grafana or equivalent technologies
  • Knowledge of best practices of running applications in containerized environments including health checks and rolling update strategies
  • Experience with scripting / development languages such as Go, Python, Bash, or PowerShell

This position requires fluent written and oral communication in English.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Health & Wellness

  • Hybrid Work Opportunities

  • Flexible Time Off 

  • Career Development & Mentoring Programs 

  • Health & Wellness Benefits, including competitive health insurance offerings and generous paid parental leave for eligible new parents 

  • Community Volunteering & Company Philanthropy Programs 

  • Employee Peer Recognition Programs – “You Earned it”

Click here to find out more about the benefits we offer.

How We Give Back to the Community:

You can learn more about our Q2 Spark Program, Q2 Philanthropy fund, and our employee volunteering programs on our Q2 Community page. Q2 supports dozens of wide-reaching organizations, such as the African American Leadership Institute, and The Trevor Project, promoting diversity and success in leadership and technology. Other deserving beneficiaries include Resource Center helping LGBTQ communities, JDRF, and Homes for our Troops, a group helping veterans rebuild their lives with specially adapted homes.

At Q2, our goal is to be a diverse and inclusive workforce that fosters mutual respect for our employees and the communities we serve. Q2 is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Applicants in California or Washington State may not be exempt from federal and state overtime requirements

Top Skills

Ansible
AWS
Azure
Bash
Elastic Stack
Go
Grafana
Hashicorp Consul
Kafka
Linux
Nomad
Packer
Powershell
Prometheus
Python
Rabbit Mq
Terraform
Vault
VMware
Windows

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