Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Defcon AI

full-time

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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