Senior Cloud Engineer

Overview

Baker Tilly is a leading advisory, tax and assurance firm, providing clients with a genuine coast-to-coast and global advantage in major regions of the U.S. and in many of the world's leading financial centers - New York, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and Baker Tilly US, LLP (Baker Tilly) provide professional services through an alternative practice structure in accordance with the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and applicable laws, regulations and professional standards. Baker Tilly US, LLP is a licensed independent CPA firm that provides attest services to its clients. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and its subsidiary entities provide tax and business advisory services to their clients. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and its subsidiary entities are not licensed CPA firms.

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Job Description:

This position is responsible for the completion of technical work on client engagements involving accounting and consulting matters while maintaining positive client relationships.

Responsibilities

Multi-cloud platform engineering and operations (design and operate foundations) (25%)

• Design, implement, and operate scalable infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and other providers, with hands-on depth in at least two.
• Engineer and improve foundational services and standard patterns (identity integration, networking, logging/monitoring, compute, storage, security controls).
• Own lifecycle management for key services (upgrades, deprecation planning, operational readiness).

IaC ownership: reusable modules, standardized patterns, environment consistency (25%)

• Develop and maintain IaC (Terraform, Ansible, Bicep) with focus on reusable modules, standardized patterns, and consistency.
• Establish code quality expectations (reviews, documentation, versioning, validation) to improve repeatability and reduce risk.

Automation-first engineering for efficiency and improve reliability (15%)

• Build automation workflows and scripts (Python, PowerShell, Bash) to eliminate manual operational tasks and improve reliability.

Reliability ownership and operational standards (lead, don't just participate) (15%)

• Own reliability outcomes for cloud services.
• Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis; implement preventative improvements.
• Define and improve runbooks, monitoring standards, alerting practices, and support models.

Security, compliance, resilience, and vulnerability management as engineered guardrails (12%)

• Ensure deployments meet security and compliance expectations through guardrails, patterns, and technical controls with Security/Risk.
• Support audit readiness (SOC, HIPAA, CMMC examples) with evidence support and control implementation.
• Design and validate backup, recovery, and resilience patterns; ensure objectives are tested and reliable.

• Lead and automate patching and vulnerability management improvements.

Technical leadership: mentoring and cross-team influence (*8%)

• Translate requirements into designs, implementation plans, and roadmaps aligned to cloud-first.
• Mentor engineers through pair