Cloud Engineer I

Company overview

Our lab is a back room full of test hardware, old routers and a rack of virtual machines. Founded in 2023, we now have 32 employees.

Cloud infrastructure role focused on automation, security controls and cost. Expect more Terraform than console clicking. Melbourne Defence needs another Cloud Engineer I to design, build and support our AWS and Azure environments. The company is based in Melbourne, Australia. The team is distributed across several countries. You will join as an independent contractor on a long-term agreement. Payment is monthly in USD. Core hours overlap with Sydney business hours until mid-afternoon. Communication happens mostly in Slack and short video calls.

What you'll be doing

• Analyse monthly cloud bills and recommend Savings Plans, reservations or rightsizing.
• Design VPCs and VNets, subnets, routing, VPN and Direct Connect or ExpressRoute links.
• Set up monitoring with CloudWatch, Azure Monitor or Datadog.
• Respond to infrastructure tickets and escalations within agreed SLAs.
• Apply security controls and fix findings from AWS Security Hub, Defender for Cloud or Wiz.
• Configure backups, snapshots and disaster recovery for cloud resources.
• Build and maintain AWS accounts or Azure subscriptions using a landing zone approach (Control Tower, Azure Landing Zones)
• Keep architecture diagrams and runbooks current.

Skills and experience

• 1-2 years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience.
• Strong knowledge of AWS or Azure core services (compute, storage, networking, IAM)
• Familiarity with CIS benchmarks, NIST or similar security frameworks.
• Networking fundamentals: CIDR, routing, firewalls, DNS, VPN.
• Ability to explain cloud costs and tradeoffs to non-technical managers.

What we offer

• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise.
• Monthly internet allowance.
• Annual rate review.

Please submit your CV in English.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Flexible.

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