AWS Cloud Operations Engineer — Remote

Cognizant; Columbia (SC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays

401(k) plan

Disability insurance

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an AWS Cloud Ops Engineer to monitor, operate, and support AWS cloud infrastructure across production and non-production environments. This role focuses on daily health checks, CloudWatch and Dynatrace monitoring, incident investigation, backups, and runbook execution.

You will work with EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, DNS, and related services, coordinate deployments, and document operations while providing on-call coverage and weekend support as needed.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in IT infrastructure or cloud operations, with hands-on AWS experience.
• Experience supporting production AWS workloads, monitoring tools, and runbooks.
• Strong communication, documentation, and on-call readiness.

Responsibilities

• Perform daily AWS health checks and validate backups and disks.
• Configure CloudWatch and Dynatrace dashboards, alarms, and alerts.
• Investigate outages, performance issues, and infrastructure anomalies.
• Manage EBS snapshots, VPC logs, DNS, and access policies.
• Support deployment runbooks and weekend service communications.
• Maintain infrastructure documentation and support TriZetto Facets activities.

Skills

AWS cloud operations

Monitoring & observability

Incident response

Documentation

On-call support

Troubleshooting

Collaboration

Tools

EC2

EBS

RDS

S3

VPC

Route 53 Private Hosted Zones

CloudWatch

SSM

AMIs

IAM/access

DNS

SSL certificates

Dynatrace

TriZetto Facets

Subversion

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an AWS Cloud Ops Engineer to monitor, operate, and support AWS cloud infrastructure across production and non-production environments. This role focuses on daily health checks, CloudWatch and Dynatrace monitoring, incident investigation, backups, and runbook execution.

You will work with EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, DNS, and related services, coordinate deployments, and document operations while providing on-call coverage and weekend support as needed.