Samaritan's Purse is hiring a
Remote Cloud Engineer

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Samaritan's Purse has an incredible opportunity for a Cloud Engineer to join our Information Technology department. This fully remote (or on-site) role is part of the Samaritan Ark Cloud Services team, with a strong focus on Site Reliability. As a Cloud Engineer, you'll play a vital part in enabling ministries to spread the Gospel by ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of our cloud platforms. We run a fully on-premise, open-source environment, and you'll focus on maintaining self-hosted tools that empower developers and operators. Don't miss this unique opportunity to serve Jesus while working with modern reliability practices and open-source technologies. Come and use your gifts daily to advance the Gospel!
 
A day in the life of a Cloud Engineer: 
At Samaritans Purse, the Gospel really is the center of all we do! We start each day with a time of devotions and spend time praying for each other, our staff and volunteers who serve around the globe. 
In the role of Cloud Engineer, you will have the opportunity to: 
  • Maintain your personal relationship with Jesus Christ and be an effective witness for Him.
  • Build, maintain, and optimize cloud infrastructure platform services that support the deployment and operation of ministry-critical workloads in our private cloud platform. Utilize various Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to assist in optimizing engineering builds.
  • Provision and automate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines using Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD tools to support development and production environments.
  • Monitor applications and infrastructure performance and respond to incidents as part of an on-call rotation, supporting root cause analysis and long-term remediation.
  • Contribute to internal tooling and documentation to improve team productivity, technical consistency, and system knowledge-sharing.
  • Assist in evaluating cost implications and supporting optimization efforts for cloud resource usage; coordinate implementation efforts across stakeholders and vendors as needed.
  • Assist in the evaluation and adoption of emerging cloud technologies, advocating for improvements in resilience, cost, and maintainability.
  • Actively participate in team ceremonies, including stand-ups, retrospectives, and planning meetings, fostering continuous improvement and shared accountability.
  • All other duties as assigned.

Qualifications & Experience: 
  •  Bachelor's degree or university program certificate in a related field, plus five (5) to seven (7) years of Cloud Engineering experience, or seven (7) or more years of related experience.
    • A relevant combination of education and experience would also be considered.
  • Proven SRE or DevOps experience with a focus on reliability, automation, and production operations.
  • Extensive experience with observability systems, building and maintaining production stacks such as Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Datadog, or Dynatrace.
  • Extensive GitOps experience with tools like ArgoCD or Flux, including management of self-hosted Git platforms such as Gitea or GitLab.
  • Hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production, strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills, and comfort with open-source, on-premise environments; OpenStack experience is a plus.
  • 12 credit hours of college-level Biblical Studies (required); if not already completed, opportunity to meet and complete requirement is available upon hire.

Job Location: Remote
Type: Full-Time
Language Requirement: Fluency in English (required)
 
Benefits:
  • On-site Medical Clinic (staff and dependents) 
  • Medical, prescription, dental & vision insurance
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Long-term and Short-term disability insurance
  • Paid Family Medical Leave 
  • Term Life Insurance
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan
  • 10 paid holidays
  • 12 vacation/personal days
  • 10 sick days
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