Cloud Operations Engineer

Cloud Operations Engineer

Lighthouse Technology Services is partnering with our client to fill their Cloud Operations Engineer position! This is a 12+ months with potential extension and/or conversion to FTE contract opportunity and will be hybrid 3 days on site in Charlotte, NC.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Drive security and monitoring enhancement initiatives to strengthen cloud infrastructure protection and operational visibility
• Partner with Development and QA teams to diagnose and resolve deployment failures, ensuring smooth release processes across all environments
• Improve environment stability by building comprehensive monitoring solutions that enable teams to proactively identify and address issues before they impact operations
• Maintain and monitor cloud infrastructure performance, ensuring high availability and optimal resource utilization
• Build and support data and application pipelines within cloud ecosystems to enable seamless data flow and application delivery
• Troubleshoot system alerts, Windows events, and operational issues to maintain service reliability
• Collaborate with security teams to implement and enforce cloud best practices across the organization
• Communicate technical concepts effectively across different audiences, from engineers to leadership, explaining the what, why, and how of cloud operations

What You'll Need to Have:

• 4-5+ years of strong hands-on experience engineering and supporting cloud environments (AWS or Azure)
• Solid general infrastructure experience including server fleet management, virtual environment administration, DNS, network routing, and firewall fundamentals
• Strong PowerShell scripting knowledge with the ability to read, modify, and create automation scripts, including experience with CloudFormation, CDK, and SSM documents
• Deep understanding of cloud architecture principles including resiliency, availability, scalability, and the strategic reasoning behind multi-datacenter deployments and environment separation (dev vs. production)
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code practices and CI/CD deployment tools
• Strong foundational knowledge of how applications communicate across networks and the internet, including serverless patterns and cloud security basics
• A hunger to learn complex environments quickly and adapt to evolving cloud ecosystems
• Demonstrated ability to communicate at various technical levels and collaborate effectively across different teams, with leadership potential or aspiration to grow into a team lead role

Pay Range: $53-58/hr