Junior Cloud Engineer (Remote)

Clients rely on us for laptop setup, Intune enrollment, backup monitoring and after-hours help when something breaks. Our technicians handle onsite and remote support for medical offices, accounting firms and manufacturers on fixed monthly contracts. After-hours on-call comes around every fourth week.

Saddleloop needs another Junior Cloud Engineer (Remote) to design, build and support our AWS and Azure environments. You'll support existing cloud workloads, handle tickets from app teams and take on migration projects.

What you'll do

• Set up monitoring with CloudWatch, Azure Monitor or Datadog
• Automate routine tasks with Python, PowerShell or Lambda functions
• Respond to infrastructure tickets and escalations within agreed SLAs
• Configure backups, snapshots and disaster recovery for cloud resources
• Apply security controls and fix findings from AWS Security Hub, Defender for Cloud or Wiz
• Manage IAM roles, policies and Azure RBAC with least-privilege access
• Support application teams with load balancers, Route 53 or Azure DNS, and certificates
• Patch cloud VMs with SSM Patch Manager or Azure Update Manager

Who you are

• 1-2 years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience
• Networking fundamentals: CIDR, routing, firewalls, DNS, VPN
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation
• Ability to explain cloud costs and tradeoffs to non-technical managers
• Familiarity with CIS benchmarks, NIST or similar security frameworks

Compensation and benefits

Pay range: $50.50 to $60.50/hr. Final offer will depend on experience.

• Flexible hours
• Monthly internet allowance

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

This position requires a background check.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Flexible.

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