Remote Cloud Systems Engineer — AWS/Azure & Identity

Defcon; United States; On-site; USD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Salary, bonus, and equity package

Health insurance

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave

Job summary

Defcon AI is seeking a Cloud Systems Engineer to own AWS, Azure, and Microsoft 365/Entra ID across a unified environment in a fully remote US‑based role. You will manage identities, enforce least privilege, and drive automation and infrastructure-as-code across multi‑cloud platforms.

Responsibilities include administering cloud resources, implementing security controls, and ensuring compliance in defense‑adjacent industries.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in systems administration or infrastructure engineering.
• 3+ years administering AWS in production, including VM, networking, and IAM.
• 2+ years administering a Microsoft 365 tenant with Entra ID, Exchange Online, licensing, and user lifecycle.
• Hands-on Microsoft Azure administration in a production environment.
• Automation of operational workflows using PowerShell, Bash, or Python; Terraform experience.
• Strong understanding of IAM, encryption, and network segmentation.
• Experience with Linux and Windows Server in a cloud context.
• Experience in regulated environments (defense, healthcare, or financial services) preferred.
• Disciplined documentation habits — runbooks and SOPs.
• US Citizenship Required. All work must be performed within the United States.

Responsibilities

• Administer AWS and Azure environments, VM, networking, and storage.
• Manage EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudTrail; VPCs and security groups.
• Administer Azure VMs, VNets, NSGs, storage, Key Vault, AVD, Site Recovery.
• Build hardened VM images and golden images for deployments.
• Implement high availability, auto-scaling, backup, and DR configurations.
• Support multi-account governance (AWS Organizations, Azure Management Groups).
• Own the Microsoft 365 tenant end‑to‑end: Entra ID, Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams.
• Run user lifecycle: provisioning, onboarding, offboarding, access reviews.

Skills

AWS administration

Azure administration

Microsoft 365 Admin

Entra ID administration

IAM/security

Automation (PowerShell/Bash/Python)

Terraform IaC

CI/CD pipelines

Documentation

Tools

Terraform

PowerShell

Bash

Python

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

AWS CloudTrail

Job description

Defcon AI is seeking a Cloud Systems Engineer to own AWS, Azure, and Microsoft 365/Entra ID across a unified environment in a fully remote US‑based role. You will manage identities, enforce least privilege, and drive automation and infrastructure-as-code across multi‑cloud platforms.

Responsibilities include administering cloud resources, implementing security controls, and ensuring compliance in defense‑adjacent industries.