Job DescriptionSamaritan's Purse is seeking a
Senior Cloud Engineer to join our
Information Technology department in
Coppell, TX. As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will serve as a hands-on technical leader, responsible for designing, automating, scaling, and maintaining secure, resilient cloud infrastructure that supports Samaritan Ark products. Working closely with the Lead Cloud Engineer, you will contribute to cloud infrastructure design and architectural decision-making while leading complex technical initiatives within the Cloud Services team. You will mentor junior Cloud Engineers and collaborate across product, platform, cybersecurity, and partner success teams to deliver performant, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions that meet organizational needs and ministry goals. Bring your strong technical expertise, collaborative mindset, and passion for continuous improvement to help foster a culture of shared ownership and product excellence. Come and use your gifts daily to advance the Gospel!
A day in the life of a Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer, you will have the opportunity to:
- Maintain your personal relationship with Jesus Christ and be an effective witness for Him.
- Work closely with the Lead Cloud Engineer to architect, design, build, maintain, monitor, and optimize cloud infrastructure platform services that support the deployment and operation of ministry-critical cloud workloads.
- Design, provision, and automate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines using Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD tools to support development and production environments.
- Mentor and provide technical oversight to Cloud Engineers, promoting skill development and engineering excellence.
- Serve as a key contributor in the evaluation and adoption of emerging cloud technologies, advocating for improvements in resilience, cost, and maintainability.
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term remediation for critical infrastructure issues.
- Partner with cybersecurity and compliance teams to implement governance, access control, and cloud security best practices.
- Contribute to internal tooling and documentation to improve team productivity, technical consistency, and system knowledge-sharing.
- Actively participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Utilize various Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to assist in optimizing engineering builds.
- All other duties as assigned.
Learn more about serving with Samaritans Purse .
Qualifications & Experience :
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field of study and seven (7) or more years of Cloud Engineering experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Experience with infrastructure automation, Linux administration, virtualization, containerization, and scripting technologies, including Ansible, Chef, Puppet, VMware, Hyper-V, Docker, Kubernetes, Bash, PowerShell, and Python.
- Knowledge of monitoring, observability, security, and cloud infrastructure technologies, including Grafana, Prometheus, CollectD, firewall configuration, network segmentation, automated web application security products, distributed storage solutions such as Ceph, and the practical application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support cloud operations and automation.
- 12 credit hours of college-level Biblical Studies (required); if not already completed, an opportunity to meet and complete the requirement is available upon hire.
Job Location: Coppell, TX
Type: Full-Time
Language Requirement: Fluency in English (required)
Benefits: - 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
