Remote Cloud Engineer — AI-Driven AWS & Terraform

Zim Directory; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Knack is seeking a Cloud Engineer to own and evolve infrastructure, ensuring security and SOC 2/HIPAA compliance while supporting AI capabilities. This fully remote role allows US-based or international contractors with a four-hour overlap with Eastern Time for international candidates.

You’ll run AWS infrastructure as code, implement CI/CD, and work with AI tools to review and verify changes. Weekly on-call is included.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in cloud infra, with 2+ years in AWS production environments.
• Experience operating a multi-tenant SaaS at scale and participating in a 24/7 on-call rotation.
• Degree not required; hands-on experience counts.

Responsibilities

• Run AWS infrastructure as code with Terraform in a GitOps workflow and manage cross-region drift.
• Design and operate how AI assistants work with AWS environments and define IAM roles and access controls.
• Enforce encryption, TLS, and rotate secrets; address pentest findings.
• Configure SOC 2 and HIPAA controls; maintain audit trails.
• Create dashboards and monitors; keep runbooks up to date.
• Lead OS upgrades and migrations; patch systems.
• Tune and secure databases; provision or decommission customer servers.
• Troubleshoot production issues and automate repeat tasks.
• Participate in weekly 24/7 on-call rotation.

Skills

Cloud infra

DevOps

SRE

Platform engineering

AWS production

Tools

Terraform

Docker

AWS

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

Job description

Knack is seeking a Cloud Engineer to own and evolve infrastructure, ensuring security and SOC 2/HIPAA compliance while supporting AI capabilities. This fully remote role allows US-based or international contractors with a four-hour overlap with Eastern Time for international candidates.

You’ll run AWS infrastructure as code, implement CI/CD, and work with AI tools to review and verify changes. Weekly on-call is included.