Remote AWS Cloud Ops Engineer - Monitoring & Incidents

Cognizant; Montgomery (AL); Remote; USD 110,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid holidays

401(k) plan

Disability insurance

Parental leave

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an AWS Cloud Ops Engineer to monitor, operate, and support AWS infrastructure in a remote-capable role. You will perform daily health checks, manage CloudWatch/Dynatrace monitoring, investigate incidents, validate backups, and assist with deployments and logging activities.

The role emphasizes on-call readiness, robust documentation, and collaboration across teams to maintain production stability in a fast-paced enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in IT infrastructure, cloud operations, production support, or systems engineering.

Responsibilities

• Perform daily AWS cloud infrastructure health checks, including disk space validation, SSM agent status, EC2/RDS availability, and operational readiness checks.

Skills

AWS operations

Cloud monitoring

Incident response

On-call support

Documentation

Education

AWS SysOps Administrator – Associate

AWS Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS Cloud Practitioner

Dynatrace Associate/Professional

ITIL Foundation

Tools

EC2

EBS

RDS

S3

VPC

Route 53 Private Hosted Zones

CloudWatch

SSM

AMIs

IAM

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an AWS Cloud Ops Engineer to monitor, operate, and support AWS infrastructure in a remote-capable role. You will perform daily health checks, manage CloudWatch/Dynatrace monitoring, investigate incidents, validate backups, and assist with deployments and logging activities.

The role emphasizes on-call readiness, robust documentation, and collaboration across teams to maintain production stability in a fast-paced enterprise environment.