Cloud Engineer

The role

Ferrygrid is looking for a Cloud Engineer to join a small, steady team. The Cloud Center of Excellence team manages landing zones, networking and identity for every application team in the company. Our team is spread across 6 countries. Headquarters is in London. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. You will need to be available during UK office hours, at least until 3:00 PM GMT.

Job duties

• Build and maintain AWS accounts or Azure subscriptions using a landing zone approach (Control Tower, Azure Landing Zones)
• Design VPCs and VNets, subnets, routing, VPN and Direct Connect or ExpressRoute links.
• Set up monitoring with CloudWatch, Azure Monitor or Datadog.
• Patch cloud VMs with SSM Patch Manager or Azure Update Manager.
• Configure backups, snapshots and disaster recovery for cloud resources.
• Apply security controls and fix findings from AWS Security Hub, Defender for Cloud or Wiz.
• Keep architecture diagrams and runbooks current.
• Migrate on-premises VMware workloads to EC2 or Azure VMs.

Skills and experience

• 2-4 years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience.
• Understanding of identity integration with Entra ID (Azure AD) or Okta.
• Windows and Linux server administration experience.

Pay and benefits

Salary: $65.50 - $76.00 per hour

• Flexible hours.
• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise.
• Paid time off.
• Monthly internet allowance.

About Ferrygrid

Ferrygrid employs 2,400 people across engineering hubs in London and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. Releases go out Tuesday mornings, never on Fridays.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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