Remote AWS Cloud Ops Engineer - Observability & Runbooks

Cognizant

Juneau (AK)

Remote

USD 110,000 - 125,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid time off

401(k) plan

Disability insurance

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. You will perform daily health checks, manage CloudWatch dashboards, and investigate incidents while supporting backups, logs, and deployments.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in IT infrastructure or cloud operations, hands-on AWS experience, and strong communication.

Qualifications

5+ years in IT infrastructure, cloud operations, production support, or systems engineering.
Experience supporting production AWS workloads, monitoring tools, incident response, and backup validation.
Strong communication, documentation, ownership, troubleshooting and weekend/on-call readiness.
Preferred certifications: AWS SysOps Administrator – Associate, AWS Solutions Architect – Associate, AWS Cloud Practitioner, Dynatrace Associate/Professional, ITIL Foundation.
Hands-on AWS operations across EC2, EBS, RDS, S3, VPC, Route 53 Private Hosted Zones, CloudWatch, SSM, IAM/access, and cross-account sharing.

Responsibilities

Perform daily AWS cloud infrastructure health checks including disk space validation and operational readiness checks.
Configure, manage, and enhance cloud infrastructure monitoring using CloudWatch and Dynatrace with dashboards, alarms, and notifications.
Investigate monitoring alerts for outages, performance issues, and infrastructure anomalies.
Configure CloudWatch alerts to notify on-call for critical production events.
Manage EBS snapshots, backups, and operational reporting for EC2/RDS.