Junior Cloud Engineer (FinOps)

About Qureshi IT

Most work comes in through ConnectWise tickets, with a dispatch board for onsite visits.

What this job is

Qureshi IT is looking for a Junior Cloud Engineer (FinOps) to join a small, steady team. We're about halfway through moving data center workloads to the cloud. This hire will help finish the job and clean up after it. Employment is through our payroll partner in the US. Salary is paid monthly in USD. You will work Dubai business hours, Monday to Friday. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

What you'll work on

• 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.
• Configure backups, snapshots and disaster recovery for cloud resources.
• Build and maintain AWS accounts or Azure subscriptions using a landing zone approach (Control Tower, Azure Landing Zones)
• Analyze monthly cloud bills and recommend Savings Plans, reservations or rightsizing.

What we're looking for

• 1+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience.
• Ability to explain cloud costs and tradeoffs to non-technical managers.
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation.
• Windows and Linux server administration experience.
• Networking fundamentals: CIDR, routing, firewalls, DNS, VPN.
• Scripting in Python, PowerShell or Bash.

What we offer

Expected salary range: $94,000 - $116,000 annually, plus bonus eligibility.

• 24 days paid time off.
• Paid sick days.
• Public holidays observed per your country.
• Performance bonus.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Start: Flexible.

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