United States onlySalary Range $110k – $150k/yr
Location: Remote. Hiring only in: CA, TX, and FL
About Work Truck Solutions
Work Truck Solutions' culture combines strong leadership, collaboration, and fun, with incredible growth opportunities for our employees in a fast-paced work environment providing employee engagement, recognition, and development. Our software company is committed to innovation in the rapidly changing commercial vehicle market space. Our vision and culture allow employees to be recognized as thought leaders and thrive in their careers.
In addition to the job responsibilities and requirements, the following are essential to be a successful member of our team:
Curiosity: you seek knowledge, ask questions, and look for answers; you’re proactive and engaged
Perseverance: you hit a delay; you know this is your moment to figure things out and to shine
Innovation: you want to make things better, solve the puzzle, create something new
Flexibility: there’s a new opportunity; you’re ready to flip the script, grow and adapt
Job Overview
The Cloud Operations Engineer is responsible for the health, scalability, security, and cost-effectiveness of the organization's Azure cloud infrastructure. This role acts as a modern System Administrator, ensuring system availability and managing the complexities of cloud infrastructure, compliance, and disaster recovery.
Key Responsibilities
The Cloud Operations Engineer's duties span several critical areas:
- Infrastructure Management & Provisioning: Oversee all cloud infrastructure and resources, including provisioning, performing regular patch management, and proactive capacity planning.
- Monitoring & Incident Response: Establish comprehensive system observability and maintain alerting infrastructure; serve as the escalation point for major incidents, drive resolution, and champion thorough Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
- Security & Compliance: Define and maintain a robust security posture by enforcing Identity & Access Management (IAM), completing security audits, ensuring data encryption, and managing audit logs for regulatory compliance.
- Cost Optimization: Actively track cloud spend against budgets, direct the team in performing right-sizing and waste elimination, and optimize rates through reserved instances and savings plans (FinOps strategy).
- Disaster Recovery & Continuity: Direct the implementation and regular testing of comprehensive disaster recovery and business continuity plans, including backup management and maintaining a High Availability (HA) architecture across multiple zones.
Required Skills and Experience
- Proven experience managing infrastructure on major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Strong understanding of network security, IAM, and compliance frameworks.
- Demonstrated ability to reduce cloud costs through FinOps principles.
- Experience in designing and testing Disaster Recovery and High Availability architectures.
- Proficiency in scripting languages for operational automation.
- Familiarity with tools like CloudWatch, Datadog, Jenkins, or similar systems.
- A focus on system availability as the primary key metric (target uptime 99.99%).
Benefits:
- Work on meaningful projects that shape the future of the commercial vehicle industry.
- Competitive salary.
- Fully remote Monday-Friday work week.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and 401k benefits, with complimentary life insurance.
- Paid Time Off (PTO) and holidays.
- Flexible scheduling, subject to manager’s approval.
- Opportunity to work with a supportive and innovative team.
FR and US only