This is a full-time, remote cloud engineering role open to applicants anywhere, paying $122,000 a year. The person hired will look after infrastructure that other engineering teams build on top of, from provisioning through to the monitoring that catches problems early.
Remote cloud engineer jobs like this one usually sit inside a DevOps or platform team, even when the day-to-day work is largely solo. You'll coordinate with developers who depend on the infrastructure rather than sit inside a dedicated operations department, and most collaboration happens through tickets, pull requests, and the occasional planning call, rather than constant meetings.
Because the position is remote and full-time, expect a mix of planned work and reactive work. Most weeks lean toward planned improvements: cleaning up a Terraform module, tightening IAM permissions, or migrating a service off an older instance type. Some weeks lean the other way, when a deployment goes sideways or a cost alert fires and needs a same-day look. Both kinds of work show up in this role, and neither one dominates the job on its own.
What the role covers
- Design, deploy, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure across the environments the team runs, from staging through production.
- Automate provisioning and deployment so that new environments and releases no longer depend on manual steps.
- Monitor systems for performance, security, and cost efficiency, catching problems before they reach users and flagging spend that drifts out of line.
Cost efficiency carries more weight here than at some companies. A cluster that runs fine but quietly overspends is treated as a problem worth fixing rather than a minor detail.
Background and experience
Candidates typically hold a bachelor's degree in computer science, along with cloud certifications built on real hands-on experience managing infrastructure rather than classroom exposure alone. That hands-on time is set at around 30 months for this posting. Automation and containerization work should already be familiar, not something picked up on the job.
The certifications matter less as credentials on their own and more as evidence that the underlying skills are current. A certification from three platform versions ago tells a hiring manager less than recent, hands-on exposure to the tools listed below. An AWS Certified Solutions Architect or equivalent credential from Azure or GCP is common among applicants for this kind of role, though it isn't treated as a hard requirement separate from the experience itself.
Education requirements here mean that a bachelor's degree in computer science serves as the baseline expectation for the role, not something that gets waived informally. Candidates from a different technical background sometimes still qualify if their hands-on infrastructure experience and certifications bridge the gap, but the degree line on an application is still checked.
Skills you'll need
The day-to-day work draws on a specific set of tools and platforms:
- Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, or GCP, depending on what the team runs
- Infrastructure as Code, for provisioning that's repeatable and version-controlled
- Linux systems administration
- Networking fundamentals
- Containerization
- Scripting, for tying automation together across environments
None of these need to be mastered in isolation. In practice, they overlap constantly: a networking change is written as code, tested with a script, and rolled out via the same pipeline that handles containerized deployments.
Nice to have
None of the following are required, but they strengthen an application.
- A professional-level certification from AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Kubernetes administration experience, particularly managing clusters in production
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog
- Terraform, or a comparable infrastructure-as-code tool, used at real scale rather than in a personal project
Pay and benefits
The role pays $122,000 a year on a full-time salary basis, not hourly or per-project pay, despite the word "freelance" in the job title.
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- 401(k) matching
- Certification support, covering exam costs or study time for certifications relevant to the role
Some employers extend this with a wellness stipend or a home office equipment allowance for remote staff, though these tend to vary by company rather than be guaranteed across the board. Certification support in particular is worth asking about directly during the interview process, since the difference between "we'll reimburse the exam fee" and "we cover the exam, the training course, and paid study time" is significant and often isn't spelled out until someone asks.
The $122,000 figure sits toward the higher end for individual contributor cloud roles outside major metro markets, which makes sense given that the position is open to applicants anywhere and the company isn't limiting itself to a single, expensive labor market to fill it.
Where this work happens
This posting comes through Naukri Mitra's cloud and DevOps hiring channel, and it's open to applicants anywhere. The hiring team is fully remote and doesn't require overlap with a specific office time zone, beyond normal coordination hours for standups and planning. Cloud engineer jobs worldwide increasingly work this way, with the infrastructure itself living in the cloud rather than tying the team to one building.
Working across time zones changes how communication happens in practice. Decisions that would otherwise be settled in a hallway conversation get written down here instead, which becomes useful documentation later, even when it feels slower in the moment.
None of this requires a home office setup beyond a stable internet connection and a laptop capable of running a few containers locally for testing. The heavier compute work happens in the cloud, not on a local machine, so there's no need to invest in expensive hardware just to do the job well.
Applying
Send a resume along with links to any infrastructure-as-code repositories, cloud certifications, or past deployment work that shows the scope of what you've managed. If you've handled cost or security monitoring on cloud infrastructure before, mention specific numbers or outcomes where you can. That detail carries more weight than a general list of tools.
Applications are reviewed as they come in rather than in a single batch at a deadline, so there's no benefit to waiting once your materials are ready. A short cover note isn't required, but a couple of lines on which part of the infrastructure stack you enjoy working in most and why tend to help whoever is reading your resume match you to the right team faster.
