Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Frontdoor is reimagining how homeowners maintain and repair their most valuable asset - their home. The Cloud & Platform Engineer L4 is responsible for building and operating secure, scalable, and resilient cloud infrastructure, focusing on automation and cloud governance while collaborating with various teams to strengthen cloud foundations.
Responsibilities
- Build and help scale foundational cloud capabilities across a multi-account AWS environment (e.g., Control Tower, account standardization, governance)
- Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (primarily Terraform) to ensure consistency and repeatability
- Implement and manage IAM policies, ensuring least-privilege access and alignment with security and compliance standards
- Develop and maintain automation for infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and operational workflows
- Support multi-region resiliency efforts, including high availability, failover design, and system reliability improvements
- Design and implement backup and disaster recovery solutions aligned to RPO/RTO objectives
- Execute disaster recovery processes, including system restoration, validation, and testing
- Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and drive remediation efforts
- Collaborate cross-functionally to improve cloud governance, automation, and operational efficiency
- Maintain observability through monitoring, alerting, and logging tools
- Provide light support for legacy systems and tools (approximately 10-20% of the role)
Skills
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure (EC2, VPC, IAM, networking, storage)
- Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform required)
- Experience working in multi-account AWS environments and governance frameworks (e.g., Control Tower)
- Strong understanding of IAM, cloud security principles, and compliance best practices
- Experience designing and supporting backup and disaster recovery strategies (RPO/RTO alignment)
- Solid Linux administration experience (troubleshooting, performance tuning, system lifecycle)
- Experience with scripting (Python, Bash, or similar)
- Understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, routing)
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation practices
- Experience supporting and troubleshooting production environments
- 5+ years of Linux/system administration or infrastructure experience
- 3-5 years of hands-on cloud experience (AWS preferred)
- Experience with infrastructure automation and scripting
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- AWS certifications
- Experience with Ansible or Ansible Tower
- Exposure to backup and security tools (e.g., Rubrik, Orca, Veeam)
- Experience with multi-region architecture and resiliency design
- Background in SRE, DevOps, or software engineering with infrastructure focus
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools
Benefits
- At Frontdoor certain roles are eligible for additional rewards and incentives. Speak directly to your recruiter to learn more.
- Our approach to benefits is holistic, and includes health, wellbeing and financial components including: insurance for medical/pharmacy, dental, vision, life, and disability, weight loss and smoking cessation programs, matching 401(k) and ability to participate in our employee stock purchase plan.
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