Cloud Engineer

Energy Cognito is a specialized consulting/solution development company for energy market analysis and risk management. We currently serve selective clients in US and Japan.

We take security and reliability seriously, and we’re looking for a Cloud Engineer to help us keep our infrastructure secure, compliant, and ready for growth.

Job Description

As our Cloud Engineer, you’ll own the day-to-day health of our cloud environments across Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. You’ll maintain our ISO 27001 certification, manage our databases, and give our development team the test environments they need to ship quickly and safely. This is a hands-on role with real ownership, ideal for someone who enjoys infrastructure, security, and keeping things running smoothly.

[Responsibilities]

Security & Compliance (ISO 27001)

• Maintain our ISO 27001 certification, including ongoing control monitoring, compliance documents, evidence collection, and support during internal and external audits.
• Manage and expand our compliance automation in Vanta, including integrations with Azure, GCP, GitHub, Duo, and other tools in our stack.

Cloud Infrastructure Management

• Provision, configure, monitor, and maintain cloud infrastructure and resources across Azure and GCP.
• Manage identity and access, networking, storage, and compute resources following security best practices.
• Monitor cost, performance, and availability, and recommend improvements.

Database Administration

• Maintain Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL databases, both cloud-managed (e.g., Azure SQL, Cloud SQL) and self-hosted.
• Handle backups, restores, patching, performance tuning, access control, and high availability and ensure database configurations meet security and compliance requirements.

Test & Development Environments

• Build and maintain test environments (cloud resources and databases) based on development team requirements.
• Prepare test data, refresh environments, and keep non-production environments consistent with production where needed.

Data Support

• Write and run SQL queries to support data retrieval, processing, and basic data management tasks.
• Assist teams with data requests, migrations, and troubleshooting.

[Requirement]

Required

• [3+] years of experience in cloud engineering, systems administration, or a similar role.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
• Familiarity with ISO 27001 or similar security frameworks (SOC 2, NIST, etc.).
• Experience administering MS SQL Server and PostgreSQL, in the cloud or on standalone servers.
• Working knowledge of SQL for querying and data manipulation.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently.
• Clear written and verbal communication, especially for documentation and audit evidence.

Preferred

• Experience with compliance automation platforms such as Vanta, Drata, or Secureframe.
• Experience with Duo, GitHub administration, or other identity and DevOps tooling.
• Scripting skills (PowerShell, Bash, or Python).
• Cloud certifications such as Azure Administrator (AZ-104), GCP Associate Cloud Engineer, or similar.

Something we value first

:

• Proven track record in working with a dynamic team, consultants and virtual teams to manage multiple concurrent projects, operations and budgets.
• Willingness and ability to lead or follow to achieve business objectives.
• Strategic thinking skills with ability to visualize the big picture and manage tactical details as required.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to explain technical information to a non-technical audience.

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, or other related scientific or technical discipline required; or demonstrated technical proficiency may be substituted for education requirements.