Cloud Engineer

The Cloud Engineer at KBX is an individual contributor responsible for operating, maintaining, and improving the cloud platform that supports our application teams. Working with senior engineers and other team members, you will execute cloud infrastructure changes, fulfill platform and access requests, support shared services, troubleshoot issues, and help keep our AWS environment secure, reliable, and supportable. This role is suited to someone early in their cloud engineering career who has strong technical fundamentals, follows established designs and standards, collaborates well, and can reliably carry work through implementation and operational support.

We partner closely with Software Engineering and Dev Ops, Security, and IT leadership to create secure, scalable, and reliable platform solutions, strengthen engineering practices, and accelerate the responsible adoption of cloud and AI technologies. We value technical curiosity, critical thinking, knowledge sharing, technical leadership, and a “can-do” attitude.

• Build and support AWS infrastructure using established designs, security controls, and change-management practices.
• Work with senior engineers to clarify requirements and technical decisions.
• Maintain, monitor, upgrade, and troubleshoot cloud platform technologies, including Amazon EKS, Istio, Solo Gloo, Kong, Amazon MSK/Kafka, and Redis/Elasti Cache.
• Use Terraform, Helm, and Git Hub Actions to provision infrastructure and deploy platform changes.
• Manage IAM, access, networking, encryption, and secrets requests using established standards. Identify automation opportunities and resolve security risks or unclear requirements with the team.
• Monitor platform health, respond to alerts and incidents, troubleshoot issues with application teams, and escalate complex problems.
• Apply tagging standards, support cost reporting, investigate waste, and implement approved cost-saving changes.
• Investigate issues using documentation and operational data, ask for help when needed, and verify work before closing it.
• Maintain implementation notes, runbooks, request records, and troubleshooting guides. Share lessons with the team.
• Build AWS and cloud platform skills through hands‑on work, training, certifications, and feedback.
• Participate in the on‑call rotation, respond to incidents, communicate impact, and help prevent repeat issues.

Entry-level candidates are welcome. Experience through employment, internships, labs, coursework, certifications, or personal projects involving AWS, cloud infrastructure, systems administration, networking, software development, or Dev Ops

Experience applying core AWS concepts and services such as compute, networking, storage, IAM, security groups, subnets, routing, and monitoring.

Experience deploying, managing, or supporting containerized applications in Kubernetes environments. Familiarity with Amazon EKS, ingress controllers, container networking, or service mesh technologies is a plus.

Experience scripting in Python, Power Shell, or shell.

Experience applying cloud security, identity and access management, monitoring, logging, incident response, and change-management best practices

An ability to use AI‑assisted tools to support learning, scripting, analysis, documentation, troubleshooting, and operational workflows

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or Information Technology field
• Experience supporting cloud infrastructure, internal platforms, application teams, service requests, or operational queues in an internship, academic, lab, or professional setting
• Experience using Terraform, source control, or CI/CD automation
• Experience working with Amazon EKS, ingress, container networking, or…