AWS Cloud Ops Engineer (Remote) – Monitoring

Cognizant; Baton Rouge (LA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an AWS Cloud Ops Engineer to monitor, operate, and support AWS infrastructure across production and non-production environments. Responsibilities include health checks, CloudWatch/Dynatrace monitoring, incident investigation, backups, and runbook execution.

The role requires 5+ years in IT infrastructure or cloud operations and hands-on AWS experience; remote work is available with on-site options in Eagan, MN. Cognizant offers comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years IT infrastructure/cloud operations or similar
• 3+ years hands-on AWS operations preferred
• Experience supporting production AWS workloads in enterprise environments
• Strong communication and documentation skills
• Familiarity with TriZetto Facets is a plus

Responsibilities

• Monitor AWS cloud infrastructure health daily (disk space, agents, availability)
• Configure/manage CloudWatch and Dynatrace dashboards, alarms, alerts
• Investigate outages, performance issues, and infrastructure anomalies
• Manage EBS snapshots, backups, and reporting
• Handle VPC logs, EC2 logs, and access policies; cross-account sharing
• Support deployments via approved runbooks and weekend communications
• Maintain infrastructure docs and support Facets installation activities

Skills

AWS Cloud Ops

Cloud monitoring

Incident response

Backup validation

On-call support

Tools

AWS

Dynatrace

CloudWatch

SSM

EC2

RDS

VPC

Route 53

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an AWS Cloud Ops Engineer to monitor, operate, and support AWS infrastructure across production and non-production environments. Responsibilities include health checks, CloudWatch/Dynatrace monitoring, incident investigation, backups, and runbook execution.

The role requires 5+ years in IT infrastructure or cloud operations and hands-on AWS experience; remote work is available with on-site options in Eagan, MN. Cognizant offers comprehensive benefits.