Junior Cloud Ops Engineer – Hybrid, AWS, Unlimited PTO

Allocore; Mechanicsburg (Cumberland County); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses twice a year

Health insurance

Dental & vision

401k with match

Life and disability

Flexible hours

Hybrid work

Unlimited PTO

Snacks

Job summary

Allocore in Mechanicsburg, PA is seeking a Junior Cloud Operations Engineer to support day-to-day AWS environments, deployments, monitoring, and incident response under guidance of senior engineers.

This hybrid role welcomes recent grads or professionals with 1–3 years in IT, offering hands-on exposure to Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Datadog, and CloudWatch, with opportunities to grow into Cloud Engineer roles.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship required; eligible for Public Trust clearance.
• 0–3 years of professional IT/Cloud Operations or related experience.
• Recent college graduates encouraged to apply.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering or equivalent.
• Basic understanding of cloud concepts and AWS exposure.
• Familiarity with Linux and basic command-line troubleshooting.
• Willingness to learn and adapt in a fast-moving cloud environment.
• Strong communication and collaborative skills.

Responsibilities

• Assist with day-to-day operation, monitoring, and support of AWS cloud environments.
• Monitor cloud infrastructure, alerts, dashboards, and system health.
• Assist with deployments, hotfixes, releases, and routine maintenance under guidance.
• Respond to cloud infrastructure alerts, support tickets, and service requests.
• Participate in rotating on-call schedule for production environments.
• Assist with after-hours deployments and incident response.
• Respond to production alerts and perform initial troubleshooting.
• Document and hand off incidents during nightly/weekend coverage.
• Collaborate with senior engineers to improve reliability and automation.
• Participate in incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Support provisioning, configuration, scaling, and maintenance tasks.
• Assist with monitoring/observability tools such as Datadog, Sentry, CloudWatch.
• Maintain runbooks and procedures for operations.
• Work with teams to automate deployments and processes.
• Gain hands-on with Terraform, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.
• Assist with containerized/cloud-native environments using Docker/Kubernetes.
• Follow security policies and cloud security best practices.
• Troubleshoot Linux-based systems, cloud services, networking, and apps.

Skills

Cloud operations basics

Linux

Troubleshooting

Automation

Scripting (Python/Bash)

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or related technical discipline

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

GitHub

Datadog

Sentry

CloudWatch

Job description

Allocore in Mechanicsburg, PA is seeking a Junior Cloud Operations Engineer to support day-to-day AWS environments, deployments, monitoring, and incident response under guidance of senior engineers.

This hybrid role welcomes recent grads or professionals with 1–3 years in IT, offering hands-on exposure to Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Datadog, and CloudWatch, with opportunities to grow into Cloud Engineer roles.