Cloud Systems Engineer

Atlas Air
$86-$117
vision insurance, paid time off, 401(k)
United States, New York, Harrison
5600 Northwest 36th Street (Show on map)
Mar 03, 2026
Join Atlas Air Worldwide. Move the World with Us! At Atlas Air Worldwide, we're not just an airline, we're a global engine powering cargo, passenger, and leasing operations across more than 70 countries. As a leader in outsourced aviation logistics, we're built on a foundation of safety, service excellence, integrity, innovation, teamwork, and responsibility. With over 30 years of history, a modern all-Boeing fleet, and nearly 5,000 teammates collaborating across operations, technical, and corporate functions, we're driven by purpose. If you're ready to grow, innovate, and help us deliver excellence every single day, you belong here. Position Summary: The Cloud Systems Engineer is responsible for the implementation, and optimization of cloud infrastructure and services to ensure scalability, security, and efficiency. This role involves working closely with internal teams and external vendors to support business objectives and maintain high-performance cloud environments. The Cloud Systems Engineer will collaborate with cloud architects, DevOps teams, and IT personnel to manage cloud operations, automate workflows, and optimize cloud performance. Key technical areas include cloud platform management, infrastructure as code (IaC), automation, cloud security, containerization, and cloud networking. Values and Behavioral Standards: To ensure the effective communication and application of company values and behavioral standards, as stated in our company "Code of Conduct" policy, and to respond appropriately in the event of any known departure. Major Job Accountabilities (in priority order): Leadership: Foster technical and procedural excellence within the IT department for all applicable production systems and processes Foster technical knowledge, design, and engineering excellence within the IT department Ensure systemic problems, sensitive customer situations, or unresolved customer Requests are escalated and distributed to IT management in a timely manner Recommend implementation standards Customer and System Support: Keep IT management apprised of critical issues Identify, correlate, escalate, and manage Problems Ensure local Service Delivery approach, processes, and procedures are aligned with organizational standards Collaborate with End User Services to ensure requests, incidents, and problems are handled in a timely manner and customer service expectations are met Design, Engineering, and Innovation: Facilitate the acquisition and integration of new technology into the environment Identify and recommend new technology value to the organization Research technical concepts and educate other team members as needed Present research / proposed projects to IT management Participate in technology evaluations Provide expertise on application integration, design, security, reliability Collaboration with other design teams within IT Monitoring & Optimization: Recommend improvements to systems and IT support process Recommend implementation standards Define implementation standards Documentation & Knowledge Management: Develop quality documentation of technical processes and procedures Document all ticket and project work Ensure documentation is sufficient to yield reproducible results Identify and recommend changes with existing documentation that impacts customer support Identify, track, any resolve gaps in existing documentation Assist in policy, security, and compliance documentation efforts when agreed upon Champion quality documentation of technical processes and procedures Lead knowledge transfer activities between teams Project Delivery: Track and complete assigned IT projects Complete tasks in a timely and quality fashion Adhere to implementation, quality control, and change control standards Keep IT management apprised of risks to project success Ensure that projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget Coordinate internal resources and 3rd party/vendors for efficient execution Required Qualifications: Experience with AWS services providing highly available, secure, and reliable services. 3+ years of relevant systems engineering or systems administration using Operating Systems, Networking, and storage systems Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment Demonstrated results orientation, initiative, attention to detail, and customer service orientation Excellent written, verbal and presentation communication skills Subject Matter Competency with Active Directory and Windows OS security Desired Qualifications: Experience with AWS services such as IAM, EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, ECS/EKS, Migration Services, and Beanstalk and providing highly available, secure, and reliable services BS in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent experience Comfort with presenting in front of technical and non-technical audiences Experience managing full-time employee Engineering teams Experience with following technologies: DevOps, Ruby, Python, Perl, PowerShell, AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Equivalent certificate. Special demands: This position may require travel on an as-needed basis to domestic and international company locations, data centers, and training events. #GH19 #LI-Hybrid #LI-20 The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to afford equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, place of birth, age, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other characteristic or status protected by applicable in accordance with federal, state and local laws. If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please download the available EEO is the Law document by clicking "EEO Is The Law" . To view our Pay Transparency Statement, please click here: Pay Transparency Statement Competitive compensation will be offered based on a variety of factors, including a candidate's experience, skills, education, geographic location, internal equity and other factors. In addition, a range of benefits to include medical, dental and vision insurance, employee assistance program, as well as generous paid time off, and 401K contributions are offered as a part of the total compensation package. Pay Range $86 — $117 USD AtAtlas Air Worldwide, we believe in the power of people, the promise of innovation, and the responsibility we hold to each other, to our customers, and to the planet. Join us and be part of a team that lifts more than cargo; we lift ambition.