Jobs · Engineering · Kentucky

Cloud Engineer

Randstad Digital Americas · Latonia Lakes, KY · 1 mo ago
Engineering$67–$68/hrContract

About the role

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field. 2+ years of experience in Cloud Operations, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Infrastructure Operations.

Responsibilities

Rehydration Operations

  • Monitor, maintain, and support cloud infrastructure services across Azure and AWS environments to ensure system availability, reliability, and operational stability.
  • Execute end-to-end data rehydration and recovery activities from cloud archival and backup services.
  • Restore data from Azure Blob Archive Tier, Azure Backup, Azure Recovery Services Vault, AWS S3 Glacier, and other long-term storage solutions.
  • Monitor and manage and optimize rehydration processes to ensure successful data retrieval within defined SLAs.
  • Coordinate with application, infrastructure, database, and business teams during recovery events.
  • Track and manage rehydration requests and provide status updates to stakeholders throughout the restoration lifecycle.
  • Validate data integrity, completeness, and accessibility following rehydration activities.
  • Document rehydration activities, recovery outcomes, and operational lessons learned to support compliance, audit, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Cloud Platform Operations

  • Provide operational support for Azure cloud infrastructure including AKS, App Services, Function Apps, Storage Accounts, VMSS, Virtual Machines, Key Vault, Logic app and networking services.
  • Perform operational support for AWS services including S3, EC2, and storage recovery solutions.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to cloud platforms, storage, networking, and application issues impacting retrieval operations.
  • Ensure high availability, reliability and performance of critical cloud services, while supporting successful execution of restoration processes.

Automation & Process Improvement

  • Develop automation solutions using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar scripting languages to streamline rehydration workflows.
  • Automate validation, reporting, and notification processes associated with rehydration operations.
  • Continuously optimize recovery procedures to reduce restoration times and operational effort.

Monitoring & Observability

  • Build and maintain monitoring, dashboards, alerting, and reporting capabilities.
  • Identify, analyze and remediate performance bottlenecks affecting rehydration activities, recovery, and retrieval processes.
  • Monitor storage utilization, recovery metrics, and operational KPIs.
  • Develop and deliver operational reports and trend analysis to support continuous improvements and stakeholder communication.

Qualifications

  • Cloud Data Rehydration & Recovery Operations
  • CI/CD Tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
  • Networking, DNS, Load Balancers, Firewalls
  • Azure Blob Archive & Backup Restoration
  • AWS S3 Glacier Retrieval Operations
  • Azure Storage Management
  • Incident Response, Root Cause Analysis and Troubleshooting
  • Distributed Systems
  • Cloud Automation & Scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash)
  • Monitoring, Logging & Observability
  • Kubernetes & AKS Operations
  • Cloud Security & Access Management
  • Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
  • Operational Excellence & Process Improvement
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Documentation & Runbook Development

Pay

$67 - 68 per hour

Schedule

8am to 5pm

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