Junior Cloud Engineer (Migration)

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.

Overview:

We are adding headcount to this team, so this is a new seat. The operations team manages landing zones, networking and identity for every application team in the company. This role is fully remote within the US. We ship you a laptop and accessories before your first day.

Job duties:

• Build and maintain AWS accounts or Azure subscriptions using a landing zone approach (Control Tower, Azure Landing Zones)
• Automate routine tasks with Python, PowerShell or Lambda functions
• Migrate on-premises VMware workloads to EC2 or Azure VMs
• Respond to infrastructure tickets and escalations within agreed SLAs
• Apply security controls and fix findings from AWS Security Hub, Defender for Cloud or Wiz
• Keep architecture diagrams and runbooks current
• Configure backups, snapshots and disaster recovery for cloud resources

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
• Understanding of identity integration with Entra ID (Azure AD) or Okta
• Ability to explain cloud costs and tradeoffs to non-technical managers

Expected salary range: $52.00 - $59.50 per hour, plus bonus eligibility.

Perks and benefits:

• Flexible spending account
• Referral program

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Immediately.

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