Cloud Engineer

About Saddleloop:

Clients rely on us for laptop setup, Intune enrolment, backup monitoring and after-hours help when something breaks. Our technicians handle onsite and remote support for medical offices, accounting firms and manufacturers on fixed monthly contracts. After-hours on-call comes around every fourth week.

The role:

Saddleloop needs another Cloud Engineer to design, build and support our AWS and Azure environments. We're about halfway through moving data centre workloads to the cloud. This hire will help finish the job and clean up after it. Our headquarters is in Dubai, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. You will work Dubai business hours, Monday to Friday. You will write a lot of updates, so clear written English is important.

What you'll work on:

• Apply security controls and fix findings from AWS Security Hub, Defender for Cloud or Wiz.
• Build and maintain AWS accounts or Azure subscriptions using a landing zone approach (Control Tower, Azure Landing Zones)
• Respond to infrastructure tickets and escalations within agreed SLAs.
• Configure backups, snapshots and disaster recovery for cloud resources.
• Support application teams with load balancers, Route 53 or Azure DNS, and certificates.
• Set up monitoring with CloudWatch, Azure Monitor or Datadog.

About you:

• Scripting in Python, PowerShell or Bash.
• Understanding of identity integration with Entra ID (Azure AD) or Okta.
• Networking fundamentals: CIDR, routing, firewalls, DNS, VPN.
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation.
• Windows and Linux server administration experience.

Bonus points:

• AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Azure Administrator (AZ-104) certification.

Perks and benefits:

Salary: $1,150 - $1,450 per month

• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise.
• Company laptop.
• Monthly internet allowance.
• Long-term engagement.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Immediately.

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