CloudOps Engineer - Evinova

AstraZeneca • Gaithersburg, MD

9d • $106,203 - $139,392 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a CloudOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in the daily operations of our SaaS platform—supporting CI/CD pipelines, ensuring system reliability, optimizing costs, and helping manage cloud resources across multiple AWS accounts. You’ll bring practical DevOps skills, an operations-first mindset, and working experience with MongoDB to help us deliver a secure, reliable, and cost-efficient platform.

Requirements

• 3–5+ years in CloudOps, DevOps, or SRE roles.
• Solid operational knowledge of AWS (EC2, RDS, IAM, S3, CloudWatch).
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB/RDS Aurora in production environments.
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and automation (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Strong scripting ability (Python, Bash, or similar).
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (Splunk, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Good communication and teamwork skills.

Nice To Haves

• Kubernetes operations (Amazon EKS).
• AWS cost management tools and FinOps practices.
• Experience with other databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka).
• Exposure to healthcare compliance (HIPAA, GDPR, NIST).

Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day AWS operations (EC2, RDS, EKS, S3, IAM, VPC).
• Perform lifecycle management tasks such as patching, scaling, and backups.
• Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, and on-call rotations.
• Operate and maintain CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Improve deployment reliability through automation and scripting.
• Support engineering teams in deploying services and environments.
• Monitor cloud usage and support cost-optimization initiatives.
• Assist in identifying opportunities for savings (e.g., right-sizing, compute migrations, storage tiering).
• Partner with senior engineers to report and track cost efficiency.
• Operate and monitor MongoDB / RDS Aurora clusters (performance, backups, scaling).
• Troubleshoot database issues in collaboration with senior engineers.
• Support integration of MongoDB and/or RDS Aurora with application workloads.
• Configure monitoring and alerting with Splunk, Grafana, CloudWatch, and OpenTelemetry.
• Contribute to incident detection and response playbooks.
• Help define operational runbooks and dashboards.
• Follow IAM security practices and apply least-privilege policies.
• Support patching, logging, and compliance tasks (SOC 2, ISO, HIPAA).
• Work with security engineers to maintain audit readiness.

Benefits

• short-term incentive bonus opportunity
• eligibility to participate in our equity-based long-term incentive program
• qualified retirement program [401(k) plan]
• paid vacation and holidays
• paid leaves
• health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees