Cloud Engineer
Knack · Engineering · Mid · 3d ago
Open to any country, as long as your working hours sit between UTC-5 and UTC-4.
Open internationally via contractor agreements provided candidates have four hours of overlap with the US Eastern timezone.
Applies on the original listing · via We Work Remotely
Who can apply
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Open to any country, as long as your working hours sit between UTC-5 and UTC-4.
“This is a full-time, remote position, but candidates must have four hours overlap with Eastern timezone.”
Requires four hours of working overlap with the US Eastern timezone.
- Async-first
- The listing doesn't promise async-first working.
- Contractor / B2B
- Hires international team members as full-time contractors.
- Global stipend
- No home office or equipment budget mentioned.
- Annual retreat
- No company-paid get-togethers mentioned.
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About the role
As a Cloud Engineer at Knack, you will manage and evolve multi-tenant AWS cloud infrastructure with Terraform and GitOps, harden systems for SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance, design AI-assisted operational tooling, and participate in a weekly 24/7 on-call rotation.
What you'll do
- Manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform and a PR-based GitOps workflow while resolving configuration drift
- Design, operate, and secure AI assistant integrations with AWS environments, including IAM governance and auditability
- Implement and enforce security controls such as encryption, WAF rules, secrets rotation, and audit remediation
- Maintain SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance controls including log retention, backups, and VPC flow logs
- Participate in a weekly 24/7 on-call rotation to troubleshoot and resolve production alerts
What you bring
- 3-5 years in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering, including 2+ years in AWS production environments
- Strong expertise in core AWS services such as EC2, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, VPC, IAM, S3, and RDS
- Deep understanding of Terraform module design, state management, and CI/CD workflows
- Working knowledge of cloud security fundamentals, Linux, Docker, and database administration
- Daily practical experience using AI tools like Claude to draft and review infrastructure changes
About Knack
Knack is an AI-powered no-code software development platform founded in 2010 that enables organizations of all sizes to build custom data-driven business applications.
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