Remote Cloud Ops Engineer - Data Rehydration

Eliassen Group; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 83,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k with company match

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Cloud Operations Engineer to manage cloud infrastructure across Azure and AWS, focusing on data rehydration, recovery, and continuity. The role emphasizes automation, performance monitoring, and adherence to SLAs, with a strong emphasis on data integrity and security.

The position is remote with a W2 engagement. Compensation is $60.00–$65.00 per hour, reflecting market rates for cloud operations and disaster-recovery experts.

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.
• Cloud security and access management knowledge.
• Incident response, root cause analysis, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• Disaster recovery and business continuity practices.
• Operational excellence and process improvement mindset.
• Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder communication.
• Documentation and runbook development.
• Schedule management Monday through Thursday from 1:00 PM to 12:00 AM EST, with majority of work after 5:00 PM EST.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, maintain, and support cloud infrastructure services across Azure and AWS.
• 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 data rehydration

Azure storage services

AWS S3 Glacier

CI/CD tooling

Python/PowerShell/Bash scripting

Kubernetes/AKS operations

Monitoring/Observability

Disaster recovery

Incident response

Data recovery workflows

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Azure AKS

Azure Storage services (Blob/Archive/Backup/Recovery Vault)

AWS S3 Glacier

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Cloud Operations Engineer to manage cloud infrastructure across Azure and AWS, focusing on data rehydration, recovery, and continuity. The role emphasizes automation, performance monitoring, and adherence to SLAs, with a strong emphasis on data integrity and security.

The position is remote with a W2 engagement. Compensation is $60.00–$65.00 per hour, reflecting market rates for cloud operations and disaster-recovery experts.