Cloud Engineer

MegazoneCloud Global; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cloud technology company in New York is seeking a Cloud Engineer to design and support secure cloud infrastructures. The role involves implementing modern cloud solutions using AWS, Azure, or GCP and requires strong skills in Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD. Candidates should have 3–6 years of experience in cloud environments along with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. This full-time position offers a dynamic work environment focused on innovation.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of experience in cloud solutions on at least one CSP (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI) and security hardening.
• Exposure to data-platform services and AI/ML tooling.

Responsibilities

• Implement landing zones and security baselines.
• Provision compute, storage, and database services using IaC.
• Develop and maintain pipeline automation.

Skills

Cloud solutions expertise

Scripting language proficiency

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

CI/CD pipeline development

Troubleshooting skills

Customer-facing communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Job description

About the Role

We’re building cloud foundations that scale with purpose. As a Cloud Engineer, you’ll be part of a high-impact team helping global clients modernize their infrastructure and deliver high-performance systems in the cloud. You’ll design, build, and support secure, highly available environments that power mission-critical transformation initiatives. Working within cross-functional delivery teams, you’ll apply best-practice automation—including infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD, and DevSecOps—to migrate, optimize, and manage workloads on AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud, all while meeting demanding performance, security, and cost-efficiency targets.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement landing zones, VPC/VNet networking, IAM, and security baselines.
• Provision and configure compute, storage, and database services using IaC I
• Develop and maintain pipeline automation for app and infrastructure deployments.
• Design and package applications with latest containerization and orchestration.
• Configure logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting - apply SRE practices.
• Produce cost-and-capacity reports with FinOps tooling.
• Produce well-structured design documents, diagrams, and hand-over guides.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years experience in cloud solutions on at least one CSP (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or similar.
• Proficiency with Terraform or equivalent IaC tool and a one scripting language.
• Working knowledge of container runtime fundamentals.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and integrating DevSecOps controls
• Familiarity with monitoring/observability stacks and incident-management processes.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and customer-facing communication skills.
• Cloud certifications on at least one CSP (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with serverless services (Lambda, Cloud Functions), event-driven architectures (SNS/SQS, Event Hub, Pub/Sub), and microservice patterns.
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI) and security hardening.
• Exposure to data-platform services and AI/ML tooling.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting