Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Part-Time

REQUIRED SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

•        Public cloud platforms — AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform

•        Cloud IAM and RBAC — roles, policies, service accounts, key rotation, MFA and SSO federation

•        IaaS provisioning — compute instances, auto-scaling, load balancing and security groups

•        PaaS management — managed databases, application services and serverless platforms

•        Cloud networking — virtual networks, subnets, routing, VPN gateways, DNS and web application firewalls

•        Cloud network virtual appliance firewalls and cloud-native security group management

•        Kubernetes — EKS, AKS or GKE with Rancher; cluster management, namespaces, RBAC and network policies

•        GitOps and continuous deployment — Argo CD; app-of-apps patterns, drift remediation and rollback

•        CI/CD pipelines — GitHub Actions and Jenkins; build, test, lint, image pipeline and promotion workflows

•        Infrastructure as code — Terraform for cloud resource provisioning across multiple providers

•        AWS, Azure and GCP management — multi-cloud operations, governance and compliance

•        Cloud security — posture management, CIS benchmarks, vulnerability scanning and privilege governance

•        Cost governance — monitoring, alerting, right-sizing and tagging policy enforcement

•        Cloud VM patching — cloud-native patch management services and image pipeline automation

•        Observability integration — log forwarding, metrics ingestion and cloud-native monitoring

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

•        Provision and manage cloud accounts and environments following security and governance standards

•        Design and maintain cloud IAM and RBAC across all providers — roles, policies, service accounts and key rotation

•        Build and manage cloud networking — virtual networks, routing, VPN, DNS, WAF and cloud firewall rules

•        Provision and scale IaaS compute instances with auto-scaling, load balancing and cost governance

•        Manage PaaS services — deployment, scaling, access control and cost monitoring across all cloud providers

•        Provision and maintain Kubernetes clusters; manage workloads, namespaces, RBAC and network policies

•        Implement and operate Argo CD GitOps pipelines for application and infrastructure deployment

•        Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions and Jenkins for build, hardening and promotion

•        Manage cloud VM patching and golden image pipelines to maintain security compliance

•        Monitor and respond to cloud security posture findings and privilege governance alerts

•        Maintain cost governance dashboards and respond to budget threshold alerts

•        Contribute to infrastructure as code repositories and participate in code review