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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Cloud Operations Engineer - **Company:** Florida Blue - **Location:** Jacksonville, FL, United States - **Salary:** $109,300.0 - $177,600.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Systems Engineering, Cloud Computing, Computer Programming, Continuous Integration, Linux, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Python (Programming Language), Windows Servers, Reliability Engineering, Cloud Services, Prometheus, Datadog, Scripting, Grafana, Kubernetes, Cloudwatch, Terraform - **Published:** September 14, 2026 - **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/main/sendform/8/8/28176/1/18291198?backUrl=%2Fcareer%2F18291198%2FCloud-Operations-Engineer-Florida-Jacksonville ## About the Role * 6+ years related work experience in infrastructure operations or systems engineering with 4+ years experience operating cloud workloads * 1+ years direct supervisory/management experience * Related Bachelor's degree required * Strong hands-on AWS experience running production workloads. * Proficiency in a programming or scripting language such as Python or Go. * Hands-on Terraform and CI/CD pipeline experience. * Experience defining and operating against SLOs and error budgets. * Observability tooling experience with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or equivalent. * Incident management and on-call experience in a production environment. * Strong hands-on AWS experience running production workloads. * Proficiency in a programming or scripting language such as Python or Go. * Hands-on Terraform and CI/CD pipeline experience. * Experience defining and operating against SLOs and error budgets. * Observability tooling experience with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or equivalent. * Incident management and on-call experience in a production environment. * Proficiency in a programming or scripting language such as Python or Go. * Hands-on Terraform and CI/CD pipeline experience. * Experience defining and operating against SLOs and error budgets. * Observability tooling experience with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or equivalent. * Incident management and on-call experience in a production environment. * Kubernetes or EKS in production. What We Prefer * Multi-region or disaster recovery design, including failover testing. * Healthcare, financial services, or other regulated industry experience. * AWS GovCloud experience. Chaos engineering or resilience testing. * AWS certification such as DevOps Engineer, SysOps Administrator, or Solutions Architect. ## Description We're moving workloads to AWS, and this is the person who keeps them running afterward: patched, backed up, monitored, and recoverable. The Cloud Operations Engineer owns that ongoing operational work and builds automation so it doesn't keep growing headcount as the estate grows. This role is a standard business-hours on eastern standard time zone engineering role with a shared on-call rotation, not a NOC or shift job. The focus is building automation and operational standards, not watching dashboards. What You Will Be Doing * Build and maintain monitoring and alerting for migrated workloads. Alert on conditions that require action. * Automate patching, backup validation, certificate renewal, and other recurring operational tasks. * Define and enforce operational readiness criteria a workload must meet before it goes live in cloud. * Build and test disaster recovery runbooks. Validate recovery time and recovery point targets through failover exercises. * Respond to incidents, participate in the on-call rotation, and drive root cause to closure. * Convert manual procedures into executable automation and self-healing where the task is repeatable. * Track availability and operational health against defined targets. Report on recurring issues. * Manage backup, retention, and restore testing for cloud workloads. * Troubleshoot and maintain AWS compute, including Windows Server and Linux instances. * Partner with infrastructure operations to transition migrated workloads into steady-state support. * Maintain runbooks and operational documentation a new on-call engineer can use unaided. ## Related Videos - [We adopted DevOps and are Cloud-native, Now What?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/485-we-adopted-devops-and-are-cloud-native-now-what) - [Docker network without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1418-docker-network-without-docker) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [5 steps for running a Kubernetes environment at scale](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/88-5-steps-for-running-a-kubernetes-environment-at-scale) - [#90DaysOfDevOps - The DevOps Learning Journey](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/548-90daysofdevops-the-devops-learning-journey) - [Remote Driving on Plant Grounds with State-of-the-Art Cloud Technologies](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/251-remote-driving-on-plant-grounds-with-state-of-the-art-cloud-technologies) ## Related Articles - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [DevOps Engineer Salary [2023]](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/203-devops-engineer-salary-2023) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [7 Cloud Computing Trends Coming in 2025 for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/412-7-cloud-computing-trends-coming-in-2025-for-developers) - [Best Paying Jobs in Technology](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/256-best-paying-jobs-in-technology)