Cloud Platform Engineer

About us:

Highland IT provides managed IT for offices of 10 to 200 users: help desk, patching, backups, Microsoft 365 and firewall management. After-hours on-call comes around every fourth week.

The role:

Highland IT is hiring a Cloud Platform Engineer to work remotely from India. Cloud infrastructure role focused on automation, security controls and cost. Expect more Terraform than console clicking. We are headquartered in London and have been hiring remotely since 2020. We engage team members in India as full-time contractors. Most of our contractors have been with us for more than two years. Core hours are 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM UK time. Reliable internet and a power backup are a must.

What you'll do:

• Apply security controls and fix findings from AWS Security Hub, Defender for Cloud or Wiz
• Automate routine tasks with Python, PowerShell or Lambda functions
• Manage IAM roles, policies and Azure RBAC with least-privilege access
• Patch cloud VMs with SSM Patch Manager or Azure Update Manager
• Build and maintain AWS accounts or Azure subscriptions using a landing zone approach (Control Tower, Azure Landing Zones)

What we're looking for:

• 2+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience
• Understanding of identity integration with Entra ID (Azure AD) or Okta
• Ability to explain cloud costs and tradeoffs to non-technical managers
• Strong knowledge of AWS or Azure core services (compute, storage, networking, IAM)
• Scripting in Python, PowerShell or Bash
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation

Compensation and benefits:

Rate: $2,700 - $3,400 per month

• Monthly internet allowance
• Flexible hours

Include your expected salary and earliest start date with your application.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Within 30 days.

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