Cloud Recovery Engineer — Remote (Azure & AWS)

Eliassen Group; Augusta (ME); On-site; USD 83,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Cloud Operations Engineer to manage cloud infrastructure, data rehydration, and recovery activities across Azure and AWS. The role supports business continuity, security standards, disaster recovery, regulatory compliance, data restoration, and operational recovery requirements.

The candidate will automate flows with Python/PowerShell/Bash, monitor recovery processes, and improve restoration procedures.

Qualifications

• Experience in cloud data rehydration and recovery operations.
• Hands-on experience with Azure storage services including Blob, Archive, Backup, and Recovery Services Vault.
• Experience with AWS S3 Glacier retrieval operations.
• CI/CD tooling experience with GitHub Actions and Jenkins.
• Networking fundamentals including DNS, load balancers, and firewalls.
• Cloud automation and scripting with Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
• Monitoring, logging, and observability practices.
• Kubernetes and AKS operations experience.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, maintain, and support cloud infrastructure services across Azure and AWS to ensure 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.
• Manage and optimize rehydration processes to meet defined SLAs and SLOs.
• Coordinate with application, infrastructure, database, and business teams during recovery events.
• Track and manage rehydration requests and communicate status updates throughout the restoration lifecycle.
• Validate data integrity, completeness, and accessibility following rehydration.
• Document rehydration activities, recovery outcomes, and operational lessons learned to support compliance, audit, and continuous improvement.
• Provide operational support for Azure services including AKS, App Services, Function Apps, Storage Accounts, VMSS, Virtual Machines, Key Vault, Logic Apps, and networking.
• Perform operational support for AWS services including S3, EC2, and storage recovery solutions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to cloud platforms, storage, networking, and applications impacting retrieval operations.
• Develop automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar scripting languages to streamline rehydration workflows.
• Automate validation, reporting, and notification processes for rehydration operations.
• Build and maintain monitoring, dashboards, alerting, and reporting capabilities.
• Identify, analyze, and remediate performance bottlenecks affecting rehydration and recovery processes.
• Monitor storage utilization, recovery metrics, and operational KPIs.
• Deliver operational reports and trend analysis to support continuous improvement and stakeholder communication.

Skills

Cloud Operations

DevOps

Site Reliability Engineering

Infrastructure Operations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Azure

AWS

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

AKS

Kubernetes

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Cloud Operations Engineer to manage cloud infrastructure, data rehydration, and recovery activities across Azure and AWS. The role supports business continuity, security standards, disaster recovery, regulatory compliance, data restoration, and operational recovery requirements.

The candidate will automate flows with Python/PowerShell/Bash, monitor recovery processes, and improve restoration procedures.