Cloud Operations Engineer

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Type: Contract

Category: Engineer

Industry: Financial Services

Workplace Type: Remote

Reference ID: JN -082026-108158

Date Posted: 09/01/2026

Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/3wDDS5


Description:

Remote

 

Our client seeks a Cloud Operations Engineer to manage and execute cloud infrastructure, application, and data rehydration activities across Azure and AWS. The role supports business continuity, enterprise security standards, disaster recovery, regulatory compliance, data restoration, and operational recovery requirements. The engineer will restore archived, backed-up, or tiered data while ensuring data integrity, system availability, operational efficiency, and adherence to service-level objectives. The ideal candidate brings cloud infrastructure expertise, DevOps automation skills, troubleshooting capabilities, and operational excellence to orchestrate large-scale rehydration events, monitor recovery processes, and improve restoration procedures.

 

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

 

Rate: $60.00 to $65.00/hr. w2


JN -082026-108158



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.

Experience Requirements:
  • 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.

Education Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
  • 2+ years of experience in Cloud Operations, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Operations.

Recruitment Transparency Notice
 
Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening and hiring process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team (noreply@eliassen.com, 781-808-2924) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group’s use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.
 

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
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About Eliassen Group:
 
Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients’ capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.
 
Eliassen is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and all employment decisions are based on merit, performance, and business needs. Eliassen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender identity or expression, sexual preference or orientation, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), marital status, creed, religion, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, age, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, prohibited criminal record inquiries of applicants and employees, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws.
 
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