Cloud Engineer (Migration)

About us:

Our bench is in the back of a strip-mall storefront, where we image laptops and swap failed drives. Every tech does a bit of everything, from printer jams to firewall rules. Lunch is usually whatever is closest to the client site.

About the role:

We are creating this position because the workload has grown. The operations team manages landing zones, networking and identity for every application team in the company. The company is based in Lawton, the US. Our team works from several countries. You will join as an independent contractor on a long-term agreement. Payment is monthly in USD. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT. Communication happens mostly in Slack and short video calls.

In your first few months you will:

• Write and review Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation.
• Apply security controls and fix findings from AWS Security Hub, Defender for Cloud or Wiz.
• Keep architecture diagrams and runbooks current.
• Build and maintain AWS accounts or Azure subscriptions using a landing zone approach (Control Tower, Azure Landing Zones)
• Automate routine tasks with Python, PowerShell or Lambda functions.
• Manage IAM roles, policies and Azure RBAC with least-privilege access.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience.
• Networking fundamentals: CIDR, routing, firewalls, DNS, VPN.
• Windows and Linux server administration experience.
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation.
• Ability to explain cloud costs and tradeoffs to non-technical managers.

Why work with us:

• Long-term engagement.
• Paid time off.
• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise.

Please submit your CV in English.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at LBJ Business Technology.