Cloud Engineer II, Cloud Networking

Headquartered in Munich since 2004, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Founded in 2004, we now have 340 employees. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

The role

Looking for a Cloud Engineer II, Cloud Networking who wants to stay somewhere for a while. We're about halfway through moving data centre workloads to the cloud. This hire will help finish the job and clean up after it. You will join as an independent contractor on a long-term agreement. Payment is monthly in USD. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. Good written English matters here, since most updates are written.

Main duties

• Build and maintain AWS accounts or Azure subscriptions using a landing zone approach (Control Tower, Azure Landing Zones)
• Keep architecture diagrams and runbooks current
• Analyse monthly cloud bills and recommend Savings Plans, reservations or rightsizing
• Apply security controls and fix findings from AWS Security Hub, Defender for Cloud or Wiz
• Migrate on-premises VMware workloads to EC2 or Azure VMs
• Write and review Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation
• Set up monitoring with CloudWatch, Azure Monitor or Datadog
• Respond to infrastructure tickets and escalations within agreed SLAs

Minimum qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience
• Windows and Linux server administration experience
• Networking fundamentals: CIDR, routing, firewalls, DNS, VPN
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation

Nice to have

• Background in a regulated industry such as healthcare or finance
• GCP experience
• Kubernetes on EKS or AKS
• AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Azure Administrator (AZ-104) certification

Compensation: $3,800 - $4,900 monthly

Perks and benefits

• Company laptop
• Annual rate review
• Long-term engagement

We look at every application, usually within a week.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Saddleworth Labs GmbH.