# Cloud Operations Support Specialist (Tier 2)

Dark Wolf is seeking a Cloud Operations Support Specialist (Tier 2) to join our team and serve as an essential frontline escalation point for maintaining, monitoring, and operating our AWS cloud environments. In this role, you will handle Tier 1 escalations, monitor system health, manage incident response, oversee backups and capacity, and execute standard operational changes. Our support specialists solve real-time operational challenges for unique mission customers and play a vital role in ensuring the high availability, reliability, and security of critical cloud systems. Key Responsibilities: Serving as the primary Tier 2 escalation point for Tier 1 service desk tickets, diagnosing and resolving complex technical issues across AWS cloud environments before escalating to Tier 3 engineering. Proactively monitoring cloud infrastructure, service metrics, and system performance using AWS monitoring tools (e.g., CloudWatch, CloudTrail) to detect and resolve alerts before impact occurs. Conducting routine checks of automated backup schedules, snapshot integrity, and storage/compute capacity; take corrective action or implement routine adjustments when thresholds are exceeded. Triaging

- **Id**: 3618267
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/dark-wolf-solutions-cloud-operations-support-specialist-tier-2>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Ogden, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-02T14:50:54Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-02
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T00:53:11Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 8
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4013
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Information Security, DevSecOps, Managed Security, Custom Software Development

## Company

- **Id**: 716229
- **Name**: Dark Wolf Solutions
- **Domain**: darkwolf.io
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/darkwolf>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 90
- **Open postings**: 5
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.2
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 73
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 60000
- **Max**: 110000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 110000

## Technologies

- **Amazon CloudWatch** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EC2** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **DNS** — Optional: no
- **GitLab** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **PowerShell** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Service Desk** — Optional: no
- **Windows** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 8

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-02T17:22:41Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 7
- **Expected fill days**: 73
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:early, comp:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 110000
- **Is top pay**: no

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