**Cloud Engineer** **Anywhere** **Type:** Contract-to-Hire **Category:** DevOps **Industry:** Other **Workplace Type:** Remote **Reference ID:** JN -032025-101394 **Date Posted:** 03/25/2025 **Shortcut:** http://careers.eliassen.com/acwhX3 + Description + Recommended Jobs **Description:** **100% Remote** Our client, a leader in AI-powered defense technology, has an excellent opportunity for a Cloud Engineer to work on a Contract-to-Hire opportunity. Work will be on a remote schedule. The Cloud Engineer will be responsible for engineering, deploying, provisioning, and managing critical cloud systems that drive innovation across our public and private cloud environments, both domestically and internationally. As part of the Cloud and Infrastructure team within Enterprise Operations, you will play a key role in ensuring the performance, scalability, and reliability of these systems to support various business units. _Due to client requirement, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance._ Rate: $60-$65/hr. W2 **Responsibilities:** + Oversee the day-to-day management and optimization of cloud-based infrastructure (e.g., Azure, AWS). + Support and optimize cloud and virtual machine environments, assisting with capacity planning, performance monitoring, security compliance, and vulnerability remediation. + Assist in implementing and maintaining infrastructure systems, including servers, storage, backup solutions, and disaster recovery processes, for both public and private clouds. + Demonstrate a willingness to learn and work with familiar or unfamiliar operating systems and workloads with the desire to leverage automation tasks for repeatable tasks. + Author and produce the necessary documentation for engineered and maintained systems along with associated processes which supporting teams can leverage. + Assist in researching, recommending, and developing innovative solutions for complex requirements and issue resolution. + Participate in Agile methodologies and sound engineering principles. + Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs. + Support system maintenance and upgrades, including OS patching, software configuration, hardware updates, and performance tuning to ensure optimal cloud infrastructure performance. + Provide escalated support for operational issues possibly during and after normal business hours for systems, workloads, and Kubernetes AI infrastructure. + Analyze, troubleshoot and resolve system infrastructure and software issues. + Possess the capacity to participate in on-call, emergency, or maintenance roles **Experience Requirements:** + 4 years’ experience supporting applications and systems in a production environment, preferably for a software and/or manufacturing development company. + Comfortable with operational efficiencies utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions (e.g., Terraform, Ansible). + Experience in automating repetitive tasks using scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python, or Bash. + Experience with deployment and systems administration of at least one type of Linux distribution (i.e. RHEL, Ubuntu) + Experience with concepts of Microsoft Windows Server administration, Azure and Active Directory environments **Education Requirements:** + Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent _Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range._ _W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality._ _Please be advised- If anyone reaches out to you about an open position connected with Eliassen Group, please confirm that they have an Eliassen.com email address and never provide personal or financial information to anyone who is not clearly associated with Eliassen Group. If you have any indication of fraudulent activity, please contact InfoSec@eliassen.com._ _About Eliassen Group:_ _Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company for human-powered solutions. For over 30 years, Eliassen has helped thousands of companies reach further and achieve more with their technology solutions, financial, risk & compliance, and advisory solutions, and clinical solutions. With offices from coast to coast and throughout Europe, Eliassen provides a local community presence, balanced with international reach. Eliassen Group strives to positively impact the lives of their employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which they operate._ _Eliassen Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status._ _Don’t miss out on our referral program! If we hire a candidate that you refer us to then you can be eligible for a $1,000 referral check!_