What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Operations Engineer - 3639278 position at Lighthouse Technology Services?
This role will be a W2 employee of Lighthouse Technology Services. No C2C or subcontracting arrangements will be considered.
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:
What You'll Need to Have:
Pay Range: $53-58/hr
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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
Questions about any of our jobs? Email us at
View all of our open jobs here: jobs.lhtservices.com
Salary : $53 - $58