Sr Manager, Cloud Engineer Lead at Charles Schwab Inc.
Westlake, TX
$209,394–$215,000
Jul 22, 2026
Westlake, TX
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior infrastructure engineering role focused on designing, building, and maintaining cloud and container platforms. Day-to-day work centers on Kubernetes cluster management, Terraform-based infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipeline development, and cloud platform operations across AWS, Azure, and GCP. The position also involves mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with product and architecture teams. Suits candidates with deep hands-on experience across IaC, container orchestration, and cloud networking.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 7,800 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,600–11,700
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The job posting states '96 months' (8 years) of post-Bachelor's experience required, applied both at the role level and across every listed technology area simultaneously. This is almost certainly a legal/immigration-filing artifact (PERM labor certification) rather than a realistic expectation that a candidate has 8 years of hands-on experience with every individual tool listed — many of these tools (e.g. NKP, FluxCD, AWS Outposts) have not existed for 8 years. All skills are marked required because they appear in the formal 'Job Requirements' section, but the practical gate is likely depth in the core platform areas (Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, CI/CD) rather than every named sub-service.
No compensation figures are provided; the posting only states 'competitive pay' and that 'starting compensation depends on related experience.'
The role title is not stated in the posting. The scope (designing Kubernetes systems, IaC, cloud infrastructure, mentoring) maps most naturally to a Senior cloud/platform engineer. The SOC classification is Medium confidence — the role writes and ships infrastructure-as-code (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers) but also has a strong infrastructure operations and administration dimension (15-1244).
Chaos Engineering is listed as a required skill area alongside Kubernetes tools; it refers to practices/tooling (e.g. Chaos Monkey, LitmusChaos) rather than a single named product, but is retained as stated in the requirements.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Chaos Engineering.
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