Cloud Engineer - AWS, Terraform & AI-Driven Ops (Remote)

Ali Aydi; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Knack is an AI-powered no-code platform delivering scalable data solutions for diverse industries. We seek a Cloud Engineer to own and evolve infrastructure, ensure SOC 2/HIPAA compliance, and support AI capabilities.

You will operate AWS at scale, enforce security standards, and collaborate with AI tools to harden environments. This fully remote role includes an on-call rotation and cross-region duties.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering, including 2+ years in AWS production environments.
• Experience operating a multi-tenant SaaS platform at scale, including participating in a 24/7 on-call rotation.
• A degree is not required; demonstrated hands-on experience counts equally.
• Deep AWS knowledge across compute, networking, and security services (EC2, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudFront, RDS).
• Strong Terraform understanding, including module design, state management, and pull-request-based CI/CD workflows.
• Working knowledge of cloud security fundamentals: least-privilege IAM, encryption in transit and at rest, network security groups and WAFs, secrets management, vulnerability remediation.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and logging tools.
• Experience administering relational and NoSQL databases in production.
• Solid Linux and container (Docker) fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Run AWS infrastructure as code, with AI in the loop.
• Manage AWS infrastructure through Terraform using our pull-request-based GitOps workflow, and resolve configuration drift across regions.
• Use AI tools to draft, review, and explain Terraform changes, then verify every plan before it merges. You own every change you approve, regardless of who or what wrote it.
• Maintain reusable modules and the standards that make AI-generated changes safe and consistent.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

DevOps

SRE

Platform engineering

AWS

Education

No degree required

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

Monitoring tools

IAM & Security tooling

Job description

Knack is an AI-powered no-code platform delivering scalable data solutions for diverse industries. We seek a Cloud Engineer to own and evolve infrastructure, ensure SOC 2/HIPAA compliance, and support AI capabilities.

You will operate AWS at scale, enforce security standards, and collaborate with AI tools to harden environments. This fully remote role includes an on-call rotation and cross-region duties.