Junior Cloud Engineer

Headquartered in New York City, the company has grown since 1987 by acquiring regional IT providers. Across New York, the company runs 14 branch offices and a central depot for hardware staging and imaging.

The role

Ambercrest IT has an opening for a Junior Cloud Engineer. You'll support existing cloud workloads, handle tickets from app teams and take on migration projects. The Enterprise Infrastructure team manages landing zones, networking and identity for every application team in the company. Remote, open to candidates across the US. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

Responsibilities

• Keep architecture diagrams and runbooks current
• Patch cloud VMs with SSM Patch Manager or Azure Update Manager
• Write and review Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation
• Automate routine tasks with Python, PowerShell or Lambda functions
• Analyze monthly cloud bills and recommend Savings Plans, reservations or rightsizing
• Respond to infrastructure tickets and escalations within agreed SLAs

Qualifications

• 1+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience
• Ability to explain cloud costs and tradeoffs to non-technical managers
• Windows and Linux server administration experience
• Scripting in Python, PowerShell or Bash

Preferred

• 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

The salary range for this role is $100,000 to $122,000 annually. This range reflects base salary only.

What we offer

• Health savings account (HSA) with employer contribution
• 401(k) with company match
• 11 paid holidays
• Dental insurance
• Profit sharing
• Home office stipend
• Short- and long-term disability

EOE. We participate in E-Verify.

We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

Start: Flexible.

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