Cloud Platform Engineer - FinOps

About us

Headquartered in Mississauga, the company has grown since 1995 by acquiring regional IT providers. Company vehicles are provided for techs who drive to client sites.

We're looking for a Cloud Platform Engineer - FinOps to join our team. This is a remote role. You'll support existing cloud workloads, handle tickets from app teams and take on migration projects. 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 team is spread across 17 countries. Headquarters is in Mississauga. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Eastern time. Reliable internet and a power backup are a must.

Main duties

• Patch cloud VMs with SSM Patch Manager or Azure Update Manager
• Support application teams with load balancers, Route 53 or Azure DNS, and certificates
• Manage IAM roles, policies and Azure RBAC with least-privilege access
• Apply security controls and fix findings from AWS Security Hub, Defender for Cloud or Wiz
• Analyse monthly cloud bills and recommend Savings Plans, reservations or rightsizing
• Build and maintain AWS accounts or Azure subscriptions using a landing zone approach (Control Tower, Azure Landing Zones)
• Keep architecture diagrams and runbooks current

What you'll need

• 3+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience
• Familiarity with CIS benchmarks, NIST or similar security frameworks
• Understanding of identity integration with Entra ID (Azure AD) or Okta
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation

Perks and benefits

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

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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