Senior Cloud Engineer

Blackstone eIT; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackstone eIT is seeking a cloud engineer to provision and manage enterprise cloud resources, focusing on Azure and AWS, with emphasis on security, cost control, and reliability across hybrid environments.

You will monitor workloads, implement access controls, keep inventories and diagrams up to date, and contribute to incident handling and change management while aligning with approved standards and governance.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of cloud engineering and administration experience.
• Strong practical experience with Microsoft Azure and/or AWS in enterprise environments.
• Knowledge of cloud networking, identity, monitoring, security configuration, backup and cost management.
• Azure Administrator/Architect or AWS Solutions Architect certification preferred.
• Experience working through controlled privileged-access and change-management procedures.

Responsibilities

• Provision and administer approved cloud resources, platform services and access configurations.
• Monitor workloads, performance, availability and utilisation and respond to operational events.
• Apply approved security baselines, identity controls, tagging, logging and configuration standards.
• Support hybrid connectivity and dependencies with on-premises infrastructure, networks and applications
• Provide cost, utilisation and optimisation analysis; implementation remains subject.
• Maintain cloud inventories, diagrams, procedures, configuration records and recovery documentation.
• Support incident, problem and change management and contribute to root-cause analysis.
• Assist with TDRA-hosted or other approved environments once the target model and access are confirmed.

Skills

Azure/AWS expertise

Cloud engineering

Cloud networking

Identity & access management

Monitoring

Security configuration

Cost management

Change management

Tools

Azure

AWS

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Provision and administer approved cloud resources, platform services and access configurations.
• Monitor workloads, performance, availability and utilisation and respond to operational events.
• Apply approved security baselines, identity controls, tagging, logging and configuration standards.
• Support hybrid connectivity and dependencies with on-premises infrastructure, networks and applications
• . Provide cost, utilisation and optimisation analysis; implementation remains subject.
• . Maintain cloud inventories, diagrams, procedures, configuration records and recovery documentation.
• Support incident, problem and change management and contribute to root-cause analysis.
• Assist with TDRA-hosted or other approved environments once the target model and access are confirmed.

Minimum Experience and Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of relevant cloud engineering and administration experience.
• Strong practical experience with Microsoft Azure and/or AWS in enterprise environments.
• Knowledge of cloud networking, identity, monitoring, security configuration, backup and cost management.
• Azure Administrator/Architect or AWS Solutions Architect certification preferred.
• Experience working through controlled privileged-access and change-management procedures.