Who is Bear Cognition?

Bear Cognition is a performance intelligence company built for mission-critical organizations that demand more from their data. We don’t just deliver software—we engineer intelligence through our unique Software with a Service (SwaS®) model, combining proprietary tools with hands-on expertise from our Data Lab team.

Founded by leaders from the high-stakes world of transportation and logistics, we understand how data can be the difference between status quo and strategic advantage. Our approach is rooted in the belief that technology alone isn’t enough—a tool is only as powerful as the intelligence behind it. At Bear Cognition, we integrate AI-powered analytics, process automation, and real-time intelligence with expert guidance to help organizations drive performance, eliminate inefficiencies, and accelerate results.

Job Description

The Cloud / DevOps Engineer role at Bear Cognition is pivotal for driving our cloud resource utilization, strengthening system resilience, and ensuring seamless application integration in our AWS/GCP Environments. You’ll work closely with product, data, and platform teams to automate infrastructure deployments, optimize costs, and champion continuous improvement across our cloud stack.

*Note, Bear Cognition does NOT offer visa sponsorships.

Core Duties & Responsibilities

Design & Operate

• Build and maintain scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant systems on AWS and GCP.
• Streamline resource utilization for cost efficiency without sacrificing performance.

Collaboration & Integration

• Partner with product, data, and platform engineering to integrate applications smoothly.
• Act as the DevOps liaison for cross-functional teams.

Automation & CI/CD

• Lead infrastructure-as-code deployments (Terraform, Ansible).
• Implement and own CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, CodeBuild, Cloud Build, etc.).

Monitoring & Optimization

• Continuously monitor, diagnose, and optimize cloud infrastructure and application operations.
• Leverage CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, and other observability tools.
• Streamline Insights to Slack Channels to alert Devs for Quick Fail Quick Fix Mentality

Innovation & Best Practices

• Stay current on AWS and multi-cloud offerings (GCP, Azure), evangelize improvements.
• Enforce security best practices (IAM least-privilege, VPC hardening, Secrets Manager).

Required Qualifications - Education / Experience

BS in Computer Science or Information Systems & 3+ years of relevant experience or 5+ years of relevant professional experience.

Cloud Platforms

• AWS – deep expertise in Lambda, CodeBuild, ECR, EKS (Fargate & EC2), EC2, S3, IAM, API Gateway, CloudWatch, VPC, Secrets Manager, ElastiCache, EventBridge, SQS.
• GCP – Cloud Build, Cloud Run, Artifact Registry, IAM, Cloud Storage, Logs Explorer, Monitoring, Pub/Sub, Firebase/Firestore.

Containerization & Orchestration

• Docker – building and managing images/containers.
• Kubernetes – cluster management, deployments, Fargate/EC2 nodes.

Infrastructure as Code

• Terraform – modules, multi-cloud provider knowledge (AWS, GCP, Snowflake; bonus: GitHub).
• Ansible – playbooks for VM configuration and patching.
• YAML – authoring manifests, CI/CD workflows.

CI/CD & Scripting

• GitHub & GitHub Actions – branching, PRs, merges, permission scoping, Actions pipelines.
• Shell / PowerShell – automation scripts across Windows, macOS, Linux.
• Python – tool development, cloud function integrations, Prefect flows.

Networking & Security

• SSL/TLS certificates, load balancing, advanced VPC design, security group management, SSH/RDP key-based access (pem, p8).

Preferred

• AWS Certifications (Cloud Practitioner, Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, Developer).
• Experience with Azure – Entra ID, SSO/SAML integrations.

Please visit our website to learn more at www.bearcognition.com

Bear Cognition is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Bear Cognition strives to make employment decisions on the basis of merit, seeking the most qualified individuals in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin or ancestry, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or other status protected by law. All employment decisions will be based on valid job requirements or other legitimate, non-discriminatory reasons. Bear Cognition offers reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in the job application and hiring process. If you would like to request such an accommodation, please contact the Vice President of Human Resources for Bear Cognition.