Cloud Automation Engineer - Remote

CentralSquare Technologies is Hero-Grade. As the trusted provider of public sector software in North America, more than 8,000 agencies rely on our comprehensive, cloud-based platform to manage critical operations – from dispatch to records, permitting to payroll. We serve with purpose and stand together with our heroes, committed to supporting the public sector with software built for impact.

What We’re About

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.

The Opportunity

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.

Key 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.

Requirements

• 7+ years in cloud/DevOps/SRE; 4+ years running production Kubernetes.

• Strong in AWS (VPC, IAM, ECR, ALB/NLB, Route 53, S3, KMS).

• Proven CI/CD delivery with Azure DevOps and/or Jenkins.

• Hands-on with Terraform; comfortable with CloudFormation and Ansible.

Nice to have

• GitOps (Argo CD/Flux), Service Mesh (Istio/App Mesh), Canary/Blue-Green.

• CKA/CKAD

CentralSquare Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.