Remote AWS Cloud Ops Engineer

Cognizant; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 110,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays

401(k) plan and contributions

Disability coverage

Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Cognizant is hiring an AWS Cloud Ops Engineer to monitor, operate, and support AWS infrastructure across production and non-production environments. The role emphasizes daily health checks, monitoring, incident investigation, and runbook-driven deployments.

Responsibilities include logging, backups, VPC/DNS tasks, and support for TriZetto Facets. Requires 5+ years in IT infrastructure and 3+ years AWS ops experience, with relevant AWS certifications.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of IT infrastructure, cloud operations, production support, or systems engineering experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on AWS operations experience preferred.
• Experience supporting production AWS workloads, monitoring tools, incident response processes, backup validation, and runbooks in enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Perform daily AWS cloud infrastructure health checks (disk, SSM, EC2/RDS availability).
• Configure, manage, and enhance cloud infrastructure monitoring using CloudWatch and Dynatrace.
• Investigate monitoring alerts for outages, performance issues, and anomalies.
• Configure CloudWatch alerts to notify on-call teams for critical incidents.
• Manage production EBS snapshots and backup validation for EC2/RDS.
• Manage VPC Flow Logs, EC2 logs, S3 bucket access and cross-account operations.
• Troubleshoot outages, network issues, DNS zones, and firewall changes.
• Support deployments by executing runbooks and communicating downtime.
• Monitor Subversion repositories and support TriZetto Facets installation.

Skills

AWS ops

Cloud monitoring

Incident response

Dynatrace

CloudWatch

EC2 management

Education

AWS SysOps Administrator – Associate

AWS Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS Cloud Practitioner

Dynatrace Associate/Professional

ITIL Foundation

Tools

Dynatrace

CloudWatch

SSM

EC2

RDS

VPC

IAM

Job description

Cognizant is hiring an AWS Cloud Ops Engineer to monitor, operate, and support AWS infrastructure across production and non-production environments. The role emphasizes daily health checks, monitoring, incident investigation, and runbook-driven deployments.

Responsibilities include logging, backups, VPC/DNS tasks, and support for TriZetto Facets. Requires 5+ years in IT infrastructure and 3+ years AWS ops experience, with relevant AWS certifications.