Cloud Engineer

Location: Covington, Kentucky | Job type: Contract | Work hours: 8am to 5pm

About the role

We are seeking a professional with a Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, and 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, 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• Hands-on experience with Azure storage services including Blob Storage, Archive Storage, Backup, and Recovery Services Vault.
• Knowledge of cloud data lifecycle management, backup strategies, and archival storage.
• Experience with PowerShell, Python, Bash, or other automation scripting languages.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Skills

• 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