Code and Theory is seeking a senior cloud engineer who wants to own the full technical lifecycle of enterprise client deployments — from assessing a client's existing infrastructure and designing the integration architecture, to provisioning the environment and keeping it running in production. This is a hands-on role that also requires real client engagement: you will sit in technical working sessions, work directly with client DevOps teams, and be the person who translates security and compliance requirements into concrete infrastructure decisions.

The Machine is the agentic operating system for marketing, built by Code and Theory. It plugs into the tools marketing teams use and turns disconnected workflows into a single intelligent system, connecting brand strategy, creative production, and media performance. The Machine helps power agencies across Stagwell's network and world-leading brands.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Assess each client's cloud infrastructure, data stack, and security perimeter before any build starts — translate findings into a concrete integration plan
Design and provision client environments using Terraform — networking, IAM, container orchestration, managed storage, and secrets management across GCP, AWS, or Azure depending on the client
Deploy and operate LLM inference pods in client cloud environments — managing API integration, rate limits, latency, and failure handling without needing a data scientist in the room
Build and maintain integration layers that connect client data sources to the AI layer — you own the plumbing that makes inference useful; the data science team owns what runs on top of it
Deploy and maintain containerized workloads via Helm — orchestration, ETL workers, and AI inference pods running inside the client's cloud perimeter
Own data pipeline deployments end to end — scheduling, pagination, retry logic, and rate-limit management against client API gateways
Manage distributed ETL jobs at scale — JSON flattening, schema enforcement, and structured output delivery
Enforce data residency requirements — raw data stays inside the client's environment, only structured output leaves to our shared infrastructure
Serve as the primary technical contact for each client's DevOps and infrastructure teams throughout the engagement
Lead technical working sessions with client teams — validate configurations, confirm IAM and credential models, review cluster specs before deployment
Triage and resolve pipeline and infrastructure failures across multiple client environments simultaneously
Implement container security standards — non-root execution, read-only filesystems, startup integrity hashes, tamper protection
Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and contribute implementation patterns to the shared playbook after every client engagement

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

6+ years of cloud engineering experience — production experience on at least two of GCP, AWS, or Azure, and willing to operate across all three depending on client environment
Deep Terraform experience — you have provisioned multi-environment, multi-tenant production infrastructure from scratch, not just applied existing configurations
Comfortable with Kubernetes and Helm in production — deploying, debugging, scaling, and securing containerized workloads, not just running them
Have run data pipelines in production — you know what breaks, how to recover, and how to build retry and backoff logic that actually holds up
Hands-on experience with distributed processing at scale — not just theoretical knowledge
Enterprise API integration experience — OAuth 2.0, API key management, rate limiting, API gateways — end to end
Solid security fundamentals — container hardening, credential management, and data residency enforcement in environments where it actually matters
Have worked directly with client or customer engineering teams — comfortable leading technical conversations with enterprise DevOps and infrastructure teams, not just supporting them
You write things down — runbooks, integration notes, playbook contributions. The next engineer should be able to operate what you built