Junior Cloud Engineer

We operate two 24/7 network operations centres and a security operations centre, staffed in three shifts. Founded in 2006, we now have 820 employees.

Job summary

This is a new position created as the team has grown over the last year. We're about halfway through moving data centre workloads to the cloud. This hire will help finish the job and clean up after it. Remote position. Most of the team is in Barcelona, but nobody is required to come in. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Main duties

• Analyse monthly cloud bills and recommend Savings Plans, reservations or rightsizing
• Support application teams with load balancers, Route 53 or Azure DNS, and certificates
• Configure backups, snapshots and disaster recovery for cloud resources
• Patch cloud VMs with SSM Patch Manager or Azure Update Manager
• Apply security controls and fix findings from AWS Security Hub, Defender for Cloud or Wiz
• Write and review Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation
• Respond to infrastructure tickets and escalations within agreed SLAs

Minimum qualifications

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

€36,000-€42,000 a year

Compensation and benefits

• Flexible remuneration plan
• Remote work allowance

Due to the number of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Flexible.

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