Remote Cloud Recovery Engineer - Data Rehydration

Eliassen Group; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 83,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k with match

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Cloud Operations Engineer to manage cloud infrastructure and data rehydration across Azure and AWS, ensuring data integrity and recovery readiness. The role emphasizes automation, observability, and alignment with security standards.

The position supports business continuity, disaster recovery, and regulatory compliance with a remote-friendly setup and a competitive W2 benefits package, including medical and 401k options.

Qualifications

• Experience in cloud data rehydration and recovery operations.
• Hands-on with Azure storage services including Blob, Archive, Backup, 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.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, maintain, and support cloud infrastructure services across Azure and AWS to ensure availability, reliability, and operational stability.
• 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

AWS S3 Glacier

CI/CD tooling

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Kubernetes

AKS

Monitoring & logging

Networking fundamentals

Security best practices

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Cloud Operations Engineer to manage cloud infrastructure and data rehydration across Azure and AWS, ensuring data integrity and recovery readiness. The role emphasizes automation, observability, and alignment with security standards.

The position supports business continuity, disaster recovery, and regulatory compliance with a remote-friendly setup and a competitive W2 benefits package, including medical and 401k options.