Junior Cloud Engineer (Azure)

Who we are

Everything runs on a single Rails app and one Postgres database, deployed on Heroku. Profitable, no outside investors, and no plans to take any. We grow when customers pay us. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

Position summary

Haywain Systems is looking for a Junior Cloud Engineer (Azure) to join a small, steady team. We're about halfway through moving data centre workloads to the cloud. This hire will help finish the job and clean up after it. The operations team manages landing zones, networking and identity for every application team in the company. Our headquarters is in Leeds, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. We hire in Pakistan through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Core hours are 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM UK time. We ship you a laptop and accessories before your first day.

In this role you will

• Patch cloud VMs with SSM Patch Manager or Azure Update Manager.
• Migrate on-premises VMware workloads to EC2 or Azure VMs.
• Analyse monthly cloud bills and recommend Savings Plans, reservations or rightsizing.
• Set up monitoring with CloudWatch, Azure Monitor or Datadog.
• Write and review Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation.
• Manage IAM roles, policies and Azure RBAC with least-privilege access.

Requirements

• Windows and Linux server administration experience.
• Familiarity with CIS benchmarks, NIST or similar security frameworks.
• Networking fundamentals: CIDR, routing, firewalls, DNS, VPN.
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation.
• Understanding of identity integration with Entra ID (Azure AD) or Okta.

What you get

• 24 days paid time off.
• Paid parental leave.
• Annual salary review.
• Stock options.
• Wellness allowance.
• Company laptop.

This posting may close early if we receive enough applications.

Start: Immediately.

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