Graduate Cloud Engineer

A bit about us:

Kestreldale Security runs a 24/7 security operations centre that monitors endpoints, firewalls and cloud accounts for mid-sized companies. Identity and access management projects, mostly Okta and Entra ID rollouts, have been part of the business since 2006. Training budget covers one SANS course or equivalent per year.

We're looking for a Graduate Cloud Engineer 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. Cloud infrastructure role focused on automation, security controls and cost. Expect more Terraform than console clicking. Our headquarters is in Riyadh, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. Working hours follow Gulf time, Monday to Friday. Good written English matters here, since most updates are written.

Responsibilities:

• Respond to infrastructure tickets and escalations within agreed SLAs
• Set up monitoring with CloudWatch, Azure Monitor or Datadog
• Support application teams with load balancers, Route 53 or Azure DNS, and certificates
• Automate routine tasks with Python, PowerShell or Lambda functions
• Analyse monthly cloud bills and recommend Savings Plans, reservations or rightsizing
• Design VPCs and VNets, subnets, routing, VPN and Direct Connect or ExpressRoute links

Qualifications:

• 1-2 years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience
• Networking fundamentals: CIDR, routing, firewalls, DNS, VPN
• Strong knowledge of AWS or Azure core services (compute, storage, networking, IAM)

Benefits:

Pay: $830 - $1,000/month

• Paid in USD
• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise
• Annual rate review
• Flexible hours

Candidates must be eligible to work in Pakistan.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Flexible.

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