Cloud Engineer - Remote-First Infra & Automation Lead

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

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.