Cloud Architect

About us:

Small accounting firms in Lower Saxony use our engagement letter and e-signature tool, and most heard about us from a colleague.

About the role:

Looking for a Cloud Architect who wants to stay somewhere for a while. You'll support existing cloud workloads, handle tickets from app teams and take on migration projects. Our headquarters is in Hanover, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. Working hours overlap with Central European Time.

What you'll work on:

• Analyse monthly cloud bills and recommend Savings Plans, reservations or rightsizing.
• Support application teams with load balancers, Route 53 or Azure DNS, and certificates.
• Keep architecture diagrams and runbooks current.
• Manage IAM roles, policies and Azure RBAC with least-privilege access.
• Patch cloud VMs with SSM Patch Manager or Azure Update Manager.

About you:

• 8+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience.
• Understanding of identity integration with Entra ID (Azure AD) or Okta.
• Windows and Linux server administration experience.
• Familiarity with CIS benchmarks, NIST or similar security frameworks.
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation.
• Networking fundamentals: CIDR, routing, firewalls, DNS, VPN.

Also helpful:

• FinOps practices and tools like CloudHealth or Vantage.
• AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Azure Administrator (AZ-104) certification.

Pay and benefits:

Salary range: $3,500 to $3,900 per month

• Monthly internet allowance.
• Long-term engagement.
• Flexible hours.
• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Lamplighter Data.