IT Cloud Engineer (Work from Home)
Hello! We are a small technology solutions company in the USA offering private cloud hosting, enterprise software readiness and deployment, managed IT services, AI integrations, and SaaS services. We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to work remotely full-time from home to assist with automation of our private cloud and enterprise software readiness and deployment for our clients. Primary Role: Your Primary Role would be supporting the deployment and upgrades of an enterprise software application of our clients. You would be interfacing with our clients over Zoom Video calls providing remote guided assistance to ensure their cloud environment meets certain specifications and perform software installation and/or version upgrades within the client’s cloud environment. This role requires that you are customer-facing, so you will need to be; - be very confident in front of customers - be very professional and present concepts well to customers - be a great troubleshooter The key is that you have great troubleshooting skills as sometimes the deployments require some level of creativity. Our job is to ensure that the client’s software is installed/upgraded and to pave a path to remove the roadblocks for a successful deployment. In this role, you must be extremely comfortable installing and configuring common Linux distributions (eg ubuntu RedHat etc). Secondary Role: Your Secondary Role would be help manage and automate our private cloud hosting environment to drive operational efficiency. We develop and manage our own SaaS AI application as well as integrate AI with 3rd party applications which are hosted in our environment. This would include:
- Deploying/provisioning servers
- Testing applications and performance
- Automating cloud processes
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS: You MUST have good experience with:
- Windows and Linux (ideally Ubuntu) server deployment/administration
- Docker and Kubernetes
- Gitlab
- Automation (Microsoft Windows automation, Terraform, PXE Booting, Ubuntu Autoinstaller, Cloud-Init etc)
- Networking skills (IP addressing, subnetting, firewalls, routing/switching, DNS, etc)
- Cloud infrastructure (virtualization - Proxmox/VMware – deploying/managing cloud environments)
- Python/Scripting
- Data Analytics/SQL
WE INVEST IN YOU: At our company, we believe in investing in our team just as much as we invest in our customers. We hire with the intent that you would become part of our team for the long-term. We are a very small company with a fairly fast-paced environment and can offer incredible opportunity for career growth in tech and access to learn about the newest technologies, private cloud and AI. OUR AUDIENCE: Our audience is Americans….. So you would need to have EXCELLENT spoken English skills (without a discernable accent), plus very good written/grammar skills. WORK SCHEDULE: The work week schedule would be something like: Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 5:00pm Central Standard Time USA. Some weekend work may be requested at times.
- * Please do not apply if you are not available during this work window.
- INTERVIEW:
An online phone interview will be required via Zoom. To be considered, please forward:
- Your resume (PDF format or link to Google drive preferred)
- A paragraph or so about yourself that discusses your level of experience in each of the technical required areas.
- Your level of spoken English (please send an audio file link/video link of your English speaking skills if you have one)
- Your desired compensation – this is very important. Resumes will not be considered without it.
Please note that we are a small business with limited budgets. Preference will be given to candidates who are more affordable who meet the talent criteria. COMPENSATION: You would be paid on an hourly basis. We would expect 40 hours per week worked. Compensation will be decided on your overall experience and value. Hint: We are looking for detail-oriented people. When you reply, include “BANANA” in the subject so we know you actually read this. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job