Cloud Engineer
Company: Irth Solutions
Reports to: VP, IT & Infrastructure
Location: Canada or United States (Remote/Hybrid - To Be Determined)
About the Role
Irth Solutions builds mission-critical SaaS products that utility and damage-prevention customers rely on every day. As a Cloud Engineer, you will help operate, secure, and continuously improve the production environments that power these products.
This is a hands-on role at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, security, automation, and reliability. You will work with a team that owns its systems end to end, contributing to resilient cloud architecture, secure operations, and efficient infrastructure management across Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Key Responsibilities
Cloud Infrastructure and Architecture
- Operate, maintain, and improve production infrastructure across Azure and AWS, including compute, networking, databases, load balancing, and identity services.
- Evaluate and implement improvements to cloud architecture, availability, security, reliability, and operational efficiency.
- Support the integration of infrastructure from acquired companies into Irth's cloud environments, operational processes, and security standards.
Security and Compliance
- Implement and maintain cloud security controls, including IAM/RBAC, network segmentation, web application firewall (WAF) rules, TLS, and secrets management.
- Manage vulnerability remediation, patching, and findings from security scans and penetration tests.
- Support SOC 2 Type II compliance by maintaining operational controls, collecting audit evidence, and documenting relevant processes.
- Identify security risks and collaborate with stakeholders to prioritize and implement appropriate remediation.
Reliability and Operations
- Monitor production systems and maintain effective alerting to support service availability and performance.
- Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and corrective action planning.
- Participate in the on-call rotation and support timely resolution of production issues.
- Maintain runbooks, architecture diagrams, and technical documentation.
Automation and Continuous Improvement
- Automate repeatable operational tasks using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar scripting tools.
- Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform, Bicep, or equivalent technologies.
- Support and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar platforms.
- Monitor cloud usage and spending, identify optimization opportunities, and collaborate with the team to improve cost efficiency.