Cloud Platform Engineer (Migration)

About us

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.

About the role

Saddleloop needs another Cloud Platform Engineer (Migration) to design, build and support our AWS and Azure environments. Our team is spread across 9 countries. Headquarters is in Dubai. Employment is through our payroll partner in Pakistan. Salary is paid monthly in Pakistani rupees. 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

• Respond to infrastructure tickets and escalations within agreed SLAs
• Analyse monthly cloud bills and recommend Savings Plans, reservations or rightsizing
• Migrate on-premises VMware workloads to EC2 or Azure VMs
• Write and review Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation
• Manage IAM roles, policies and Azure RBAC with least-privilege access
• Keep architecture diagrams and runbooks current
• Apply security controls and fix findings from AWS Security Hub, Defender for Cloud or Wiz

What you bring

• 3-5 years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience
• Strong knowledge of AWS or Azure core services (compute, storage, networking, IAM)
• Ability to explain cloud costs and tradeoffs to non-technical managers
• Networking fundamentals: CIDR, routing, firewalls, DNS, VPN
• Familiarity with CIS benchmarks, NIST or similar security frameworks
• Understanding of identity integration with Entra ID (Azure AD) or Okta

Bonus points

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

Benefits

• 24 days paid time off
• Monthly internet allowance
• Annual team retreat
• Annual learning budget
• Co-working space stipend

Start: Immediately.

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