Cloud Engineer

Energy Innovation Corp; Mesa (AZ); Remote; USD 79,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

SmartTech Solutions, a Mesa, AZ based company, seeks a Cloud Engineer to manage infrastructure as code, automate tasks, and monitor technology services. The role emphasizes ensuring stability during code freezes and delivering fast wake times for users in Mesa and beyond.

Remote-first with flexibility is offered; candidates should be ready to collaborate across teams and contribute to evaluating new tools and frameworks to support scalable, reliable cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience translating GitOps complexity for a non-technical audience.
• The discipline to over-share early and trim later.
• Familiarity with contract schedules and team norms at SmartTech Solutions.

Responsibilities

• Configure and manage infrastructure as code across staging and production.
• Automate manual tasks that drain engineering hours.
• Track and report key performance metrics for technology services.
• Hand off Prometheus runbooks for on-call readiness.
• Carry a safety-first EKS feature through code freeze without breaking stability.
• Reduce cold-start times so functions wake quickly for users.
• Evaluate and recommend new tools, frameworks, and libraries.
• Replace brittle EKS with ECS solution that scales in Mesa.

Skills

Strong communication

Translate GitOps

Non-technical audience

Tools

Prometheus

Amazon EKS

Amazon ECS

Terraform

GitOps

Job description

We measure our technology engineers by what they make easy for everyone else, and that's the Cloud Engineer bar in Mesa. The promise is concrete — $79,000 - $107,000, contract hours, 4 years honored, and a technology role at SmartTech Solutions that grows with you.

Key Responsibilities

• Configure and manage infrastructure as code across staging and production
• Automate the manual Active Listening chores that quietly drain Mesa, AZ engineering hours
• Track and report on key performance metrics for technology services
• Hand off Prometheus runbooks so the next on-call at SmartTech Solutions sleeps better
• Carry a safety-first Amazon EKS feature through code freeze without breaking SmartTech Solutions stability
• Cut Active Listening cold-start times so SmartTech Solutions functions wake before AZ users notice
• Evaluate and recommend new tools, frameworks, and Active Listening libraries
• Replace the brittle Amazon EKS hack with an Amazon ECS solution that survives Mesa scale

What You'll Bring

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience translating GitOps complexity for a non-technical audience
• The communication discipline to over-share early and trim later
• Working familiarity with contract schedules and team norms at SmartTech Solutions

SmartTech Solutions is an ownership-driven, fiercely independent Mesa company that would rather earn trust slowly than buy attention quickly. Disagreement is welcome here, but once we decide, the whole SmartTech Solutions team rows in the same direction.

Count on $79,000 - $107,000, remote-first flexibility, parental leave, and a stipend for the tools and courses you need.

This page reflects a live, current opening, refreshed just hours ago.

We welcome applications from driven professionals ready to make an impact.