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