Senior Cloud Engineer at Kelly Services
Los Angeles, CA
$136,000–$170,000from the description
Jul 9, 2026
Los Angeles, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on infrastructure role focused on building, managing, and optimizing cloud environments across AWS, Azure, and GCP within a SaaS setting. Day-to-day work spans Kubernetes cluster management, containerized workloads, database administration, monitoring, disaster recovery, and DevOps toolchain support. Suited to engineers with at least five years of production experience with Kubernetes and Docker who are comfortable spanning Linux operations and multi-cloud platform work.
Senior level · 5+ years · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $190,744 (middle half $167,095–$224,501). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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Why we read it this way (7)
Pleasanton, CA falls within the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA CBSA (41860), which is the standard metro used for this area.
This role sits at the boundary between 15-1252 (Software Developers) and 15-1244 (Network and Computer Systems Administrators). The 70% Linux/Kubernetes hands-on engineering split, the expectation to write code, build clusters, and develop monitoring solutions tips it toward 15-1252; however, the significant infrastructure operations and database administration duties make 15-1244 a credible runner-up.
The 5+ years requirement is explicitly tied to Kubernetes and Docker experience, but also reads as the overall role-level experience gate — captured in total years as well as on the Kubernetes skill.
The programming/scripting language requirement lists C#, PowerShell, Java, Go, Ruby, and ASP.NET as interchangeable examples ('or similar'); C# is used as the primary name with the others in alternatives.
Web technologies (HTTP/S, HTML, JavaScript, XML, CSS) are listed as a single 'solid understanding' requirement under Required Skills. JavaScript is emitted as the representative named language; HTTP/S is emitted separately as the protocol knowledge gate. HTML, XML, and CSS are omitted as they name no distinct tool beyond general web literacy.
SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Jenkins, Artifactory, Consul, Prometheus, Elasticsearch, and Fluentd all appear only in the 'What You'll Be Doing' responsibilities narrative — not in the Required Skills section — and are therefore marked as preferred rather than hard gates.
CI/CD pipelines appear only under 'Desired Skills & Experience' and are marked preferred accordingly.
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