Remote Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer (GCP/Azure, Terraform)

Horizontal Talent; Rochester (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Horizontal Talent is seeking a Remote Cloud/Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement, and operate cloud infrastructure across GCP and Azure. The role emphasizes automation with Terraform, Kubernetes, and strong IAM/security controls, while improving monitoring and incident response in a production environment.

Responsibilities include building IaC, supporting high-availability services, and collaborating with DevOps and application teams to enhance deployment reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE.
• Hands-on experience with GCP and/or Azure; exposure to both is preferred.
• Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience supporting Kubernetes and containerized applications.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking, including DNS, load balancing, routing, firewalls, and connectivity.
• Experience managing IAM, service accounts, secrets, certificates, keys, and credential access.
• Experience supporting production environments with high availability and reliability requirements.
• Strong monitoring, logging, and observability skills.
• Scripting and automation experience with Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar tools.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis abilities.
• Ability to reduce manual work through automation and process improvement.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure across GCP and Azure.
• Support highly available production environments for digital platforms, APIs, and web applications.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform.
• Help support and improve Kubernetes and container-based environments.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, connectivity, performance, and availability issues.
• Manage IAM, service accounts, secrets, certificates, keys, and related access controls.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks through scripting and tooling.
• Partner with DevOps and application teams to improve deployment reliability and environment consistency.
• Assist with production incidents, root-cause analysis, and long-term remediation.
• Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and overall operational visibility.
• Create documentation, runbooks, infrastructure standards, and best practices.
• Identify opportunities to modernize legacy processes using cloud-native approaches.

Skills

GCP & Azure

Terraform / IaC

Kubernetes

Cloud networking

IAM management

Automation / Scripting

Monitoring & Observability

Root-cause analysis

Python / PowerShell / Bash

Tools

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Job description

Horizontal Talent is seeking a Remote Cloud/Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement, and operate cloud infrastructure across GCP and Azure. The role emphasizes automation with Terraform, Kubernetes, and strong IAM/security controls, while improving monitoring and incident response in a production environment.

Responsibilities include building IaC, supporting high-availability services, and collaborating with DevOps and application teams to enhance deployment reliability.