Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Defcon AI
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $140,000 - $180,000 per year
About the role
- Administer and maintain AWS and/or Azure environments, including day-to-day operations of virtual machines, networking, and storage
- Manage VPCs, subnets, routing tables, security groups, NACLs, and private networking constructs
- Deploy, maintain, and optimize EC2 instances, RDS, S3, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, and CloudTrail
- Build and manage hardened VM images (AMIs / golden images) for consistent, repeatable deployments
- Implement and support high availability, auto-scaling, and disaster recovery configurations
- Design and maintain infrastructure using Terraform, including modular design, remote state management, and workspace strategies
- Identify and implement automation opportunities to reduce manual operational overhead and improve team velocity
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in systems administration, cloud operations, or infrastructure engineering
- 3+ years of hands-on experience managing AWS and/or Azure environments, including virtual machine administration
- Strong Terraform experience, including modular design and state management; experience leading IaC migrations is a plus
- Demonstrated ability to automate operational workflows and reduce manual effort at scale
- Strong understanding of IAM, encryption (KMS, TLS), and network segmentation
- Experience with Linux (RHEL/Amazon Linux) and/or Windows Server in a cloud context
- Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker, ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes)
- Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices
Benefits
- A fully remote, results-based environment
- Competitive salary, bonus, and equity package
- 100% employer paid, comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family
- Unlimited PTO, with your manager’s approval
- Flexible work environment where you manage your work day
- 14 weeks of fully-paid parental leave
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Hard Skills & Tools
AWSAzureTerraformEC2RDSS3IAMKMSDockerCI/CD
Soft Skills
automationteam velocityoperational workflowshigh availabilitydisaster recovery