Cloud Operations Engineer
About The Position
Work Truck Solutions' culture combines strong leadership, collaboration, and fun, with incredible growth opportunities for our employees in a fast-paced work environment providing employee engagement, recognition, and development. Our software company is committed to innovation in the rapidly changing commercial vehicle market space. Our vision and culture allow employees to be recognized as thought leaders and thrive in their careers. The Cloud Operations Engineer is responsible for the health, scalability, security, and cost-effectiveness of the organization's Azure cloud infrastructure. This role acts as a modern System Administrator, ensuring system availability and managing the complexities of cloud infrastructure, compliance, and disaster recovery.
Requirements
- Proven experience managing infrastructure on major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Strong understanding of network security, IAM, and compliance frameworks.
- Demonstrated ability to reduce cloud costs through FinOps principles.
- Experience in designing and testing Disaster Recovery and High Availability architectures.
- Proficiency in scripting languages for operational automation.
- Familiarity with tools like CloudWatch, Datadog, Jenkins, or similar systems.
- A focus on system availability as the primary key metric (target uptime 99.99%).
Responsibilities
- Infrastructure Management & Provisioning: Oversee all cloud infrastructure and resources, including provisioning, performing regular patch management, and proactive capacity planning.
- Monitoring & Incident Response: Establish comprehensive system observability and maintain alerting infrastructure; serve as the escalation point for major incidents, drive resolution, and champion thorough Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
- Security & Compliance: Define and maintain a robust security posture by enforcing Identity & Access Management (IAM), completing security audits, ensuring data encryption, and managing audit logs for regulatory compliance.
- Cost Optimization: Actively track cloud spend against budgets, direct the team in performing right-sizing and waste elimination, and optimize rates through reserved instances and savings plans (FinOps strategy).
- Disaster Recovery & Continuity: Direct the implementation and regular testing of comprehensive disaster recovery and business continuity plans, including backup management and maintaining a High Availability (HA) architecture across multiple zones.
Benefits
- Work on meaningful projects that shape the future of the commercial vehicle industry.
- Competitive salary.
- Fully remote Monday-Friday work week.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and 401k benefits, with complimentary life insurance.
- Paid Time Off (PTO) and holidays.
- Flexible scheduling, subject to manager’s approval.
- Opportunity to work with a supportive and innovative team.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
