Cloud Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

Big challenges need bold thinkers.

If you’re someone who sees problems as opportunities, you’ll thrive here. RESPEC is 100% employee-owned , which means we take ownership of every challenge. Here, your ideas drive real solutions. Since 1969, we’ve tackled complex challenges in energy transition, infrastructure resilience, digital transformation, and sustainability.

At RESPEC, you’ll work alongside clients to take on critical problems . Depending on your expertise, you might design infrastructure in remote locations, develop renewable energy solutions for global projects, or apply data-driven technology to improve mining and water systems.

We bring deep technical knowledge, real-world experience, and a commitment to work that matters. If you're looking for a place where your contributions have real impact, you’ll fit right in.

We do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters.

Job Description

RESPEC is hiring a mid-level Cloud Engineer to design, build, migrate, and operate secure AWS environments for multiple private and public-sector projects. You’ll lead environment buildouts, support migrations, implement automation and monitoring, and collaborate closely with security and engineering. AWS is the priority; Azure is secondary and exposure to GCP is a bonus.

Responsibilities :

• Architect, build, and operate AWS environments (dev / test / UAT / prod) for web, data, and GIS workloads.
• Execute migrations (lift-and-shift / re-platform); plan cutovers, validations, and rollback strategies.
• Implement automation using IaC (CloudFormation or Terraform) and scripting (PowerShell / Bash / Python).
• Manage core AWS services : EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, ALB / NLB, Auto Scaling, Systems Manager, CloudWatch / CloudTrail.
• Configure networking : VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups / NACLs, DNS; support VPN / Direct Connect concepts.
• Establish reliability : monitoring / alerting, patching, backup / restore, performance tuning, capacity planning.
• Apply security best practices : least-privilege IAM, encryption, key / secret management, logging / guardrails.
• Stand up basic databases (Oracle / SQL Server / Postgres on RDS or EC2), manage connectivity, and perform backups / restores.
• Optimize cost with tagging, budgets, lifecycle policies, and rightsizing.
• Create documentation (diagrams, runbooks, SOPs) and share knowledge with the team.
• Engage with PMs and stakeholders to clarify requirements, report status, and mitigate risks.
• Provide occasional Tier II / Tier III escalation support during cutovers or incidents.

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

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Additional Information

Work Schedule :

Compensation : Salary depends on experience and expertise. Compensation includes a comprehensive fringe-benefits package. RESPEC is a 100% employee-owned company and employees are eligible for participation in the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) after a qualifying period.

Featured benefits include :

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.