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This role will ensure accountability and internal ownership of day-to-day cloud operations by collaborating with vendors and MSP.\nThis position leads operational incident and problem resolution, improves runbooks and automation, and oversees managed-service-provider execution. It partners with architecture, security, application development, migration, product, and emerging-technology teams to ensure approved solutions are production-ready and sustainably operated.\nResponsibilities\nOwns the day-to-day operational health, reliability, availability, and supportability of AWS cloud environments\nImplements and improves monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, and observability practices that enable proactive issue detection and response\nLeads incident response, service restoration, root-cause analysis, problem management, post-incident reviews, and corrective-action follow-through.\nAutomates provisioning, configuration, remediation, deployment, and routine operational tasks using infrastructure as code and scripting\nAnalyzes and improves cloud performance, capacity, scalability, and resource utilization\nIdentifies and executes approved cloud cost-optimization opportunities in partnership with finance and technology stakeholders\nMaintains backup, recovery, resilience, and disaster-recovery procedures and validate operational readiness through documented testing\nOversees the CloudOps managed-service provider, validate work quality, track commitments, escalate service gaps, and verify completion of operational work\nDevelops and maintains runbooks, operating procedures, technical documentation, and knowledge articles\nAssesses production readiness and partner with architecture, security, application development, product, and migration teams on operational requirements\nSupports approved production changes and continuously improve operational controls, tooling, and processes\nEvaluates emerging operational capabilities, including approved AI-assisted engineering tools, when they improve reliability, efficiency, or supportability\nQualifications\nRequired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:\nStrong operational knowledge of cloud networking technologies, including VPCs, API Gateways, WAFs, load balancers, Route 53, VPNs, and firewalls\nStrong hands-on experience operating and supporting AWS serverless technologies, including AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, Redshift, and related monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and cost optimization practices\nAdvanced knowledge of cloud operations, resiliency, performance, capacity management, and disaster recovery\nAdvanced expertise in observability practices, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational metrics\nStrong analytical and troubleshooting skills with experience leading incident response and root cause investigations\nProficiency in infrastructure automation through infrastructure as code, scripting, and repeatable operational processes\nAbility to translate operational data into actions that improve reliability, efficiency, scalability, and cost performance\nAbility to oversee service providers, assess operational risk, and drive issue resolution to completion\nIntermediate knowledge of cloud security, identity, networking, governance, and compliance concepts\nExperience creating and maintaining technical documentation, operational procedures, and recovery runbooks\nStrong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence technical and business stakeholders\nPreferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:\nKnowledge of IT service management practices supporting incidents, problems, changes, requests, and knowledge management\nKnowledge of cloud financial-management practices, cost allocation, forecasting, anomaly management, and optimization\nKnowledge of container, orchestration, and cloud-native operating practices\nAbility to use approved AI-assisted engineering tools for troubleshooting, documentation, knowledge management, runbook development, automation, or operational analysis\nKnowledge of hybrid-cloud operations and integrations between cloud and on-premises environments\nExperience:\n7 years of progressively responsible experience in cloud operations, DevOps, site reliability engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a related discipline\n5 years of hands-on experience deploying, operating, supporting, and troubleshooting production workloads in AWS\n3 years of experience using infrastructure as code and scripting or programming to automate operational work\nDemonstrated experience supporting production services, leading incident resolution, completing root-cause analyses, and improving operational reliability\nRequired Education:\nBachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience\nPreferred Certifications:\nAWS Certified DevOps Engineer - 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This benefit offers significant, personalized outcomes for each associate including work/life balance, savings on commuting, work clothing, and increased time to spend on personal activities.\nOur full benefit package is designed to support the physical, mental, and financial health of our associates. We offer:\nPhysical and Mental Health Benefits\nChoice of Blue Cross Blue Shield Medical, Dental, and Vision Plans\nTelehealthcare - for Medical and Behavioral visits\nGenerous PTO with buy/sell options\n9 Company holidays, a floating day off, and a day off for volunteering\nEmployee Assistance Program\nWellness program - earn insurance discounts or credit towards health-related items\nFinancial Health Benefits\n401K Plan with employer matching contributions\nCompany-funded spending/reimbursement accounts to help with out-of-pocket medical expenses\nBonus and Recognition programs\nTuition Assistance\nConsultation with financial planner\nBasic Life & AD&D Insurance, Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance provided, and Supplemental Term Life Insurance is available\nGroup Discount programs - mobile, technology services, etc., to help you save money\nOther Benefits\nE-Learning - Comprehensive and current library of e-learning and performance support assets, available on demand and at no cost\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other grounds, race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, gender identity, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability. 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