Job Description
The Junior Cloud Engineer position is a great opportunity for an early-career IT professional to grow their cloud skills while supporting the unique needs of our public sector clients. You’ll help deploy and operate a secure, modern AWS-based platform, learn strong operational practices, and work alongside experienced engineers in a collaborative environment. This role is hands-on and is a strong fit for someone who enjoys learning, problem-solving, and building reliable systems.
Your challenges and objectives:
- Learn Avature’s infrastructure, operational processes, and compliance requirements within public sector environments.
- Support AWS infrastructure across production and development environments, with an emphasis on security, reliability, and repeatable deployments.
- Utilize Infrastructure as Code and configuration management through mentorship and real-world projects.
- Contribute to projects end-to-end: gathering requirements, implementing changes, validating outcomes, documenting work, and supporting handoff to operations.
- Partner with teammates and stakeholders to understand needs, communicate progress, and deliver high-quality outcomes.
- Collaborate with global colleagues in a diverse, interconnected working environment.
Your day-to-day activities:
- Operate and support AWS-hosted infrastructure and services, working primarily in Linux environments.
- Administer Linux systems: user/service management, patching, hardening, troubleshooting, performance analysis, and automation.
- Build and maintain Terraform modules and workflows to provision and manage cloud resources safely and repeatedly.
- Implement and maintain configuration management using Puppet to ensure consistent system state and reduce drift.
- Support troubleshooting of cloud and system issues, helping with root cause analysis and learning to implement preventative improvements.
- Participate in platform improvements and operational maturity efforts (runbooks, standards, change implementation, automation, and resilience improvements).
- Participate in an on-call rotation after onboarding/training, with clear escalation paths and team support.
- Support adoption of new tools and technologies to meet evolving public sector and compliance requirements.
About you:
- US government security clearance eligibility is required. Candidates must be willing and eligible to obtain a US government security clearance.
- Have 1–2 years of experience in a cloud operations/infrastructure role supporting production or production-adjacent environments.
- Experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting core AWS services.
- Experience with Linux as an everyday operating system (preferred), as well as experience with Linux system administration (required).
- Have hands-on experience using Terraform to provision and change infrastructure (following version control and basic change/review practices).
- Familiar with or actively using configuration management like Puppet (or ready to ramp quickly with prior exposure).
- Ability to complete complex projects from beginning to end with minimal supervision (planning, execution, and operationalization).
- Comfortable working in technically complex, process-driven environments where documentation and change control matter.
- Experience with specific technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes is a plus.
- Experience or strong interest in programming and automation, with a focus on creating efficient and streamlined processes, and a desire to eliminate repetitive tasks.
- Able to deliver end-to-end infrastructure work in technically complex, process-driven environments where documentation and change control matter.
- Strong critical thinking and troubleshooting skills, able to break down ambiguous problems, prioritize hypotheses, and resolve issues under pressure.
- Willingness to work within business hours in the EST time zone.
About us:
Avature is a market leading enterprise SaaS Solution provider for global talent acquisition and talent management. We have a strong commitment to high quality engineering and customer service and are recognized innovators in the very large company market. We currently work with over 650 companies worldwide, including 110 of the Fortune 500, all of the Big Four consulting firms, the largest banks and manufacturers in the world, and five governments.
We design, build, implement, and support our product ourselves. With 26 releases a year and a strong commitment to innovation and quality engineering, our private cloud platform has become the product choice for the very large global organization.
At Avature, we value opportunities to learn and grow within a dynamic, creative, and collaborative environment. We encourage autonomy and empower our people to approach challenges innovatively while bringing their unique perspective to the table. We offer a career development program that supports continuous learning and thoughtful leadership, and that meaningfully impacts each individual’s professional trajectory.
What we offer:
- A fast-paced, energetic, and engaging environment.
- Competitive salary, with one review a year.
- Three weeks vacations.
- Four days a year to attend events related to professional development.
- Health Insurance: Two plan options available - a high deductible health plan (medical, vision, and dental; life, AD&D, and disability insurance), or a more comprehensive plan with an employer-funded Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA).
- 401(k) plan with a company match of $0.50 for every $1.00 contributed on the first 3% of employee contributions.
- Unlimited sick days.
An organizational culture that empowers everyone to be themselves is key to thrive in business, but more importantly, it is a pathway for creating a more equitable society. Avature fosters a diverse and inclusive environment and celebrates that each unique person brings something different to our team. We are committed to considering all qualified applicants equally and to promoting equal opportunities within our organization.
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