Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer — Job Description (EU-Remote) & Contract SummaryA well-rounded Cloud Engineer with proven, real-world experience designing, implementing, and operating secure cloud-native systems. This role requires strong hands-on skills across infrastructure-as-code, cloud platforms, security tooling, and monitoring — with a specific focus on SIEM engineering for this requisition.Key ResponsibilitiesDesign, implement, and manage SIEM solutions to improve security posture, alerting, and compliance.Facilitate incident response through effective detection, triage, and alerting strategies.Collaborate across cross-functional teams and multiple workstreams, prioritizing work effectively.Working hours: Europe and North America Time Zone coverageMust-Have (Required)Several years of hands-on cloud engineering experience (architecting, deploying, managing cloud systems).Strong expertise in SIEM engineering:Public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) — architecture and configuration.Secure cloud systems design with defense-in-depth and cyber risk mitigation principles.Working across multiple facets of the technology stack and handling multiple workstreams.Technical SkillsetCloud & IAC / PlatformCategoryTechnologies / ExamplesIAC / Cloud-native toolingServerless, EKS, AKS, Terraform, SentinelCloud DatabasesAWS RDS, Aurora; Azure Managed Instances, Azure SQL DatabasePublic CloudsAWS, Azure, GCP Security & IdentityCategoryTechnologies / ExamplesIdentity & AuthorizationOkta (IdP), SAML, SSO, Authentication/Authorization technologiesEndpoint & Network SecurityAV, IDS/IPS, XDR/EDRSecurity MonitoringSIEM (design & tuning), log aggregation, alerting DevSecOps, Containers & CI/CDCategoryTechnologies / ExamplesContainers & OrchestrationDocker, Rancher, KubernetesCI/CD / AutomationJenkins, GitOps, Azure DevOps, Chef, Terraform Observability & MonitoringCategoryTechnologies / ExamplesMonitoring & LoggingPrometheus, CheckMK, Nagios, Grafana, Splunk, DataDog Databases & Operating SystemsCategoryTechnologies / ExamplesRDBMS & NoSQLMSSQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, HadoopOperating SystemsWindows Server, Ubuntu Linux Networking & ScriptingCategoryTechnologies / ExamplesNetworking ConceptsVLANs, Subnets, Load Balancing, OSI Model, NFS, VPNsScripting & CLIsPython, Ruby, Bash, PowerShell, AWS CLI, Azure CLI / Azure PowerShell