Senior Cloud Engineer

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. Code review is required on every pull request, and nobody merges their own changes.

Job summary

We're looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to join our team. This is a remote role. You'll support existing cloud workloads, handle tickets from app teams and take on migration projects. We engage team members in India as full-time contractors. Most of our contractors have been with us for more than two years. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Patch cloud VMs with SSM Patch Manager or Azure Update Manager.
• Manage IAM roles, policies and Azure RBAC with least-privilege access.
• Migrate on-premises VMware workloads to EC2 or Azure VMs.
• Design VPCs and VNets, subnets, routing, VPN and Direct Connect or ExpressRoute links.
• Automate routine tasks with Python, PowerShell or Lambda functions.
• Respond to infrastructure tickets and escalations within agreed SLAs.

What you need

• 5+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience.
• Windows and Linux server administration experience.
• Strong knowledge of AWS or Azure core services (compute, storage, networking, IAM)
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation.
• Ability to explain cloud costs and tradeoffs to non-technical managers.
• Scripting in Python, PowerShell or Bash.

Benefits

• Company laptop.
• Long-term engagement.
• Paid in USD.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at BHH Apps, LLC.