Hybrid Senior Cloud Operations Engineer

at Labcorp

• Job title: Senior Cloud Operations Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $160,000 - $210,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Python, Terraform, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, United States

About the role

• Senior Cloud Operations Engineer designing, automating, and operating AWS infrastructure at Labcorp. Focused on creating secure, self-service platforms to empower developers and scale the business.

Responsibilities

• Own operations across multi-account architectures (via AWS Organizations, Identity Center with ABAC, and SCPs) ensuring security, compliance, and cost efficiency.
• Build and maintain self-service Terraform modules, pipelines, and automation for provisioning resources and bootstrapping applications, championing reproducible infrastructure through CI/CD workflows (GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Automate relentlessly, define best practices, and work across engineering teams to improve reliability, cost efficiency, and developer experience.
• Collaborate to improve resilience, scaling, and performance.
• Implement and monitor security controls in partnership with InfoSec.
• Mentor engineers across platform and application teams, advocating for best practices and driving standardization, automation, and operational excellence.
• Serve as an escalation point for complex operational incidents and post-mortem analysis.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and perform additional duties, as assigned.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant work experience or any equivalent combination of training, education, and experience that provides the required skills, knowledge and abilities, including 3+ years with AWS at scale.
• A self-starter able with the ability to work independently.
• Expert-level proficiency in Terraform, including a deep knowledge of state file internals, provider architecture, execution DAGs, and the implementation details of Terraform’s core engine.
• A detailed understanding of AWS services and principles.
• Strong scripting ability in Bash, Python, or Go.
• Experience with GitOps, CI/CD (Github Actions), Docker, Kubernetes, and hybrid or datacenter environments (LDAP, networking, access control, monitoring).
• A passion for lifelong learning, always pushing yourself, your teammates, and our systems to be the best they can be.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life
• STD/LTD
• 401(k)
• Paid Time Off (PTO) or Flexible Time Off (FTO)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan