1187 - Cloud Infrastructure Engineer I

GoFasti; United States; Remote; USD 39,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

GoFasti is seeking a remote Cloud Engineer based in Latin America to help operate and improve production cloud infrastructure. The role covers deployments, monitoring, incident response, security controls, disaster recovery, and cost optimization.

You will work with Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins, design and implement automation, document changes, and participate in on-call rotations to reduce downtime.

Qualifications

• A college degree or equivalent work experience in IT or information security.
• 3+ years implementing cloud solutions and enterprise infrastructure.
• 3+ years of application design and infrastructure experience (monitoring, DNS, backups, DR).
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or Jenkins.
• Understanding of cloud architecture, networking, distributed systems, and security/governance.
• Strong troubleshooting and stakeholder communication; able to work independently.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and maintain distributed systems in line with security practices, and support infrastructure configuration and administration.
• Monitor cloud health, performance, stability, and costs; investigate and resolve issues during testing and production.
• Provide Level 2 support and participate in on-call rotations, incident reviews, and follow-up actions to reduce future downtime.
• Maintain backups and recovery processes, and take part in disaster recovery planning and exercises.
• Manage cloud resource configuration and governance, including identity and access management; identify opportunities to automate routine work.
• Document deployed solutions, operational procedures, and significant changes, and contribute to shared cloud standards and knowledge.

Skills

Cloud operations

Monitoring

Incident response

Automation

Education

College degree or equivalent IT/security experience

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Job description

Role overview

Help operate and improve cloud infrastructure for production systems in a remote role based in Latin America. The work includes deployments, monitoring, incident response, security controls, disaster recovery, and ongoing improvements to reliability and cloud costs.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and maintain distributed systems in line with security practices, and support infrastructure configuration and administration.
• Monitor cloud health, performance, stability, and costs; investigate and resolve issues during testing and production.
• Provide Level 2 support and participate in on-call rotations, incident reviews, and follow-up actions to reduce future downtime.
• Maintain backups and recovery processes, and take part in disaster recovery planning and exercises.
• Manage cloud resource configuration and governance, including identity and access management; identify opportunities to automate routine work.
• Document deployed solutions, operational procedures, and significant changes, and contribute to shared cloud standards and knowledge.

Requirements

• A college degree or equivalent work experience, with practical IT and information security experience.
• Experience with cloud enterprise infrastructure architecture or operations, including at least three years implementing cloud solutions.
• At least three years of application design experience and infrastructure experience covering monitoring, DNS, DHCP, backups, and disaster recovery.
• Experience supporting automation work with tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Jenkins.
• Understanding of cloud architecture principles, networking protocols, distributed systems, and security or governance controls.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, organization, and stakeholder support skills; able to work independently and with a platform team.

Nice to have

• Microsoft or AWS industry certification, such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate.
• Terraform Associate certification.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote, full-time contract role based in Latin America, with compensation of USD $3,500–$4,200 per month depending on experience and skills.