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Cloud Engineer

AS TRADE LLC
Houston, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 6/27/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/26/2026

Job Description

We are looking for a motivated Cloud Engineer with 2–4 years of hands-on experience supporting cloud infrastructure, automation, deployments, monitoring, and production environments. The ideal candidate should have practical experience with cloud platforms, Linux systems, scripting, CI/CD support, and infrastructure automation.

This role is suitable for candidates who have worked with cloud operations, DevOps support, infrastructure support, application deployments, and environment maintenance.

Key Responsibilities

  • Support cloud infrastructure across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
  • Assist with provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and maintenance of cloud resources.
  • Work with Linux servers, system services, logs, permissions, storage, and basic troubleshooting.
  • Support CI/CD pipelines for application build, deployment, and release activities.
  • Assist in deployment validation, rollback support, and environment readiness checks.
  • Create and maintain basic automation scripts using Bash, Python, or PowerShell.
  • Support infrastructure automation using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or ARM templates.
  • Work with monitoring and logging tools to identify system issues, alerts, failures, and performance problems.
  • Coordinate with development, QA, security, network, and infrastructure teams.
  • Maintain documentation, runbooks, deployment notes, and operational procedures.
  • Follow cloud security best practices, access control policies, and change management processes.

Required Skills

  • 2–4 years of experience as a Cloud Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Linux Engineer, or Infrastructure Engineer.
  • Hands-on experience with at least one cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
  • Basic to intermediate knowledge of Linux administration.
  • Experience with cloud compute, storage, networking, IAM, monitoring, and backup services.
  • Experience with scripting using Bash, Python, or PowerShell.
  • Understanding of CI/CD concepts and tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
  • Experience with Git, version control, branching, and pull requests.
  • Basic understanding of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
  • Knowledge of monitoring/logging tools such as CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Splunk, Datadog, Grafana, or ELK.
  • Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.

Preferred Skills

  • Exposure to Docker or Kubernetes.
  • Experience supporting application deployments in cloud environments.
  • Understanding of networking basics such as DNS, load balancers, firewalls, VPC/VNet, subnets, and security groups.
  • Experience with ticketing tools such as ServiceNow or Jira.
  • Familiarity with security, patching, vulnerability remediation, and access management.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate should be someone who is hands-on, willing to learn, comfortable troubleshooting technical issues, and able to support cloud infrastructure and DevOps activities in a fast-paced environment.

Salary : $70,000 - $80,000

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