Cloud Engineer

Genesis10 is currently seeking a Cloud Engineer for a contract position with a Major Financial Institution located in Richmond, VA. This is a 6+ month contract opportunity.

This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, build, and maintain resilient cloud infrastructure across GCP and Azure. The ideal candidate will have strong experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, workflow orchestration with Temporal, and backend development in Python or Go to optimize data storage, compute, and processing workloads.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and provide technical guidance across distributed cloud environments
• Troubleshoot, maintain, and resolve complex issues related to cloud infrastructure and workflow orchestrations
• Optimize data storage, compute, and processing workloads using cloud-native services across GCP and Azure
• Design, build, and maintain resilient asynchronous workflows and distributed microservices using Temporal
• Implement and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) modular frameworks using Terraform to ensure reliable, multi-cloud deployments
• Monitor, tune, and improve application performance, service reliability, and data flow efficiency

Requirements

• Minimum 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and managing infrastructure and services across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure
• Strong proficiency and production experience in Python or Go for backend development, automation, and distributed systems tooling
• Practical experience using Terraform for multi-environment provisioning, state management, and infrastructure automation
• Hands-on experience developing, orchestrating, and scaling complex, failure-resilient distributed applications using Temporal
• Familiarity with modern containerization and orchestration tooling (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD automation pipelines

Desired skills

• Experience with cloud networking, cross-cloud interconnectivity, and IAM security best practices
• Background in event-driven architectures, message queues (e.g., Pub/Sub, Kafka)

Pay range

$78.55 - $86.55 per hour

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!

Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.

For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client.

Benefits of Working with Genesis10

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)

For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website.

Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.