Senior Cloud Operations Engineer
First seen by Alion on Oct 14, 2026.
Role : Senior Cloud Operations Engineer
Total Experience : 5 - 9 years
Key skills and experience required :
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
- Networking fundamentals, including DNS, load balancers, VPCs, firewalls, and IAM
- Containers and orchestration : Docker
- CI/CD and release engineering : GitHub Actions
- Observability, including metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting, with tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana
- Cloud security, including least-privilege IAM, secrets management, encryption, vulnerability management, and compliance fundamentals
- Automation and scripting : Python and Bash
- Cost optimization and capacity planning, including tagging, budgets, rightsizing, and reserved/committed usage
- Database and storage operations, including managed SQL/NoSQL services, Aurora Serverless v2, backups, replication, retention, and recovery
- Knowledge of AWS services such as ECR, ECS, S3, Cognito, AppConfig, Secrets Manager, and Bedrock
- Strong communication skills and a high sense of ownership
Skills
Cloud Operations, Cloud Services, Release Management, CI/CD Pipeline, IAC Terraform, Github, Python, Bash Scripting, Observability Services, iAM, Docker