CloudOps Engineer (AWS) - Optimize Partners - New York, New York, United States

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:30:50 -0600

Optimize Partners is looking to hire a CloudOps Engineer as a consultant to perform system administration and support on behalf of our client - a late stage B2B SaaS cloud technology company. This will be a long-term consulting project - ~ 6 months to ~ 1 year - with real potential to become a full-time permanent role. Due to the sensitive nature of the work, and according to Federal Guidelines, this consultant must be either a US Citizen or Green Card holder.

Responsibilities:

Provisioning, installing, configuring, operating, and maintaining virtual servers, operating systems software and related infrastructure within AWS

Implements agreed-upon secure baseline configurations, incorporates secure configuration settings for client's cloud/DB applications and solutions, and assists with security impact analyses and configuration monitoring activities

Performs technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure

Performs periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning

Responding to incidents, service outages and other problems

Performs daily system monitoring, verifies the integrity and availability of all server resources, systems and key processes (e.g., reviews system and application logs, verifies completion of scheduled jobs, backups, etc.)

Performs regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions (e.g., Reviews vulnerability reports, assesses risk of vulnerabilities, proposes corrective actions or mitigating controls, etc.)

Co-lead the client's CloudOps Continual Service Improvement initiatives, which includes: ITIL-based KPIs to benchmark the performance ITSM Services (e.g., Incident Response, Information System Contingency, Configuration-Change Management, CloudOps tools, Requirements, policies and procedural guidelines, etc)

Qualifications:

3+ years of progressive experience in the following technologies

Linux

AWS

Postgresql

Ansible

Bash / Python

What to Expect, If Hired

Health, Vision and Dental Insurance

401(k) retirement savings plan, with Employer match

Paid Time Off