Sr. R&D Cloud Engineer | Remote

About this role

Description:

*US Signal* is a leading data center services provider, offering secure, reliable network, cloud hosting, colocation, data protection, and disaster recovery services — all powered by its expansive, robust fiber network. US Signal also helps customers optimize their IT resources through the provision of managed services and professional services.

We are hiring a*Sr. R&D Cloud Engineer* to join our team immediately!

If you're the kind of engineer who gets restless maintaining what already exists and wants to build what comes next, this role was designed for you.

At *US Signal*, our OpenCloud platform powers enterprise infrastructure across a national footprint. As a *Sr. R&D Cloud Engineer*, you'll sit at the intersection of research and production prototyping emerging capabilities, stress-testing them in the lab, and engineering them into reliable, scalable platforms that our customers depend on. This is a hands-on role with real ownership, from first proof of concept through stable production deployment.

What You'll Own

• Design, build, and operate the private cloud, virtualization, and core infrastructure platforms that underpin OpenCloud. You're not inheriting someone else's architecture and maintaining it, you're shaping it.
• Lead proofs of concept and production validation for emerging infrastructure, storage, container, and platform technologies. You'll apply sound engineering judgment to assess risk, value, and real-world operability, not just whether something works in a lab.
• Build automation-first platforms from the ground up. Production-grade scripting, Infrastructure as Code (Python, Bash, Terraform, Ansible), DevOps pipelines, and observability aren't supporting tasks here, they're core to how you work.
• Architect storage, backup, and data protection solutions that meet enterprise-grade requirements for performance, resilience, recoverability, and compliance across complex hybrid cloud environments.
• Serve as a ...