Junior Cloud Engineer (GCP)

A bit about us:

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.

Ambercrest IT has an opening for a Junior Cloud Engineer (GCP). We're about halfway through moving data center workloads to the cloud. This hire will help finish the job and clean up after it. The Cloud Operations team manages landing zones, networking and identity for every application team in the company. This role is fully remote within the US. We keep meetings to a minimum and work mostly async. Most communication happens in Slack, with short video calls when needed.

Day to day:

• Respond to infrastructure tickets and escalations within agreed SLAs.
• Migrate on-premises VMware workloads to EC2 or Azure VMs.
• Write and review Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation.
• Keep architecture diagrams and runbooks current.
• Apply security controls and fix findings from AWS Security Hub, Defender for Cloud or Wiz.
• Analyze monthly cloud bills and recommend Savings Plans, reservations or rightsizing.
• Build and maintain AWS accounts or Azure subscriptions using a landing zone approach (Control Tower, Azure Landing Zones)
• Patch cloud VMs with SSM Patch Manager or Azure Update Manager.

What you'll need:

• 1-2 years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience.
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation.
• Networking fundamentals: CIDR, routing, firewalls, DNS, VPN.
• Scripting in Python, PowerShell or Bash.
• Windows and Linux server administration experience.
• Familiarity with CIS benchmarks, NIST or similar security frameworks.

Preferred qualifications:

• FinOps practices and tools like CloudHealth or Vantage.

Benefits:

Pay range: $117,000 - $151,000/year. Final offer will depend on experience.

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Paid time off.
• Professional development budget.
• Cell phone reimbursement.

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

Interview process: a phone call, a meeting with the hiring manager, and a final conversation with the team.

Start: Within 30 days.

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