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Cloud Operations Engineer roles in infrastructure management, site reliability, and cloud platform support qualify for STEM OPT when your degree is in computer science, information technology, or a related STEM field. The 24-month STEM OPT extension requires your employer to be enrolled in E-Verify and to co-sign your I-983 training plan before your initial OPT expires.
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Company Overview
Resurety is the only clean energy industry partner to bring together actionable market insights and groundbreaking transaction tools in one seamless ecosystem. Through our unrivaled market intelligence and portfolio management software, our expert consulting services, and the leading regulated clean energy marketplace, we deliver the infrastructure and information needed to move the entire industry – and your business – forward. Resurety’s CleanTrade™ is the first and only CFTC-registered transaction platform for as-generated energy, and our CleanSight™ software simplifies complex workflows with the most sophisticated intelligence and portfolio management tools in the market. The result is increased transparency, liquidity, speed, and impact for the industry and our customers.
Working at Resurety
Our values shape our culture. We’re building a team of people who live our values every day.
- Know Our Customers: We are obsessive about helping our customers win by understanding their world, their challenges, and their goals.
- Audacious Ambition: We approach every challenge with the confidence and the conviction to pursue big, hard goals that others won’t.
- Focused and Fast: We identify the highest priority work, execute with speed and quality, and drive momentum by succeeding or failing fast, then moving on to the next important thing.
- Win Together: We are one unified team; we collaborate across functions and share collective ownership of our success and our failures.
- Own It: We are accountable to ourselves, our team, and our customers. We proactively give and receive feedback and recognition to constantly improve.
Position Overview
Are you looking for an engaging career in the clean energy markets? Do you want to work with a team of smart, passionate people changing the future of energy both financially and environmentally? Is DevSecOps your passion? If so, let’s connect!
This Senior Cloud Operations Engineer role is central to scaling and maintaining Resurety's cloud-native infrastructure and continuous delivery capabilities. The position sits within the Engineering DevOps department and supports two distinct platforms. The primary focus is on implementing and automating robust, secure, and highly available cloud services, with a primary focus on AWS expertise. The successful candidate will drive the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles with tools such as Terraform, manage containerized applications with Docker/ECR/ECS, and build and optimize CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions). This role requires a strong blend of development and operations skills to ensure system stability through comprehensive monitoring (CloudWatch, GuardDuty, OpenSearch), rigorous troubleshooting, and proactive integration of security practices (DevSecOps) throughout the entire software development lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
- CI/CD Pipelines: Develop, maintain, and optimize continuous integration and delivery processes to automate code deployments.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Monitoring and Observability: Implement logging, alerting, and monitoring to track application performance and ensure system uptime.
- Containerization & Orchestration: Manage application containers (Docker) and orchestration platforms, ECR/ECS.
- Automation & Troubleshooting: Automate routine manual processes, perform root cause analysis, and resolve production errors.
- Security (DevSecOps): Integrate security checks, perform compliance scans, and vulnerability testing directly into the deployment pipeline.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- Experience: 2–5 years in DevOps, software development, and system administration.
- Scripting/Programming: Proficiency in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Cloud Platforms: Deep knowledge of AWS Cloud Architecture, experience in Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Tools: Familiarity with GitHub, Atlassian, Jenkins, Docker, SonarQube, Terraform, and Jfrog.
- Collaboration: Strong communication skills to act as a bridge between development and operations teams.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a relevant field preferred.
Preferred Qualifications
- CI/CD: Jenkins, BitBucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions.
- IaC: Preferred Terraform, or experience with Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
- Cloud: Preferred AWS, or experience in Azure or GCP.
- Monitoring: Guard Duty, CloudWatch, Grafana, OpenSearch, Datadog.
- Containerization: Preferred Docker, or experience with Kubernetes.
Details
- Location: Boston, MA
- Our organization works on a hybrid model. We are in the office on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays at our downtown Boston building, and remote work is optional on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Compensation and Benefits
- The base compensation range for this position is $124,100 to $135,600. Actual starting pay is determined by a number of factors, including relevant skills, qualifications, and experience. This range does not include annual bonus, equity-based incentives, and benefits.
Benefits information can be found on our Careers page: https://resurety.com/about/careers/
About Resurety
Company Overview
Resurety is the only clean energy industry partner to bring together actionable market insights and groundbreaking transaction tools in one seamless ecosystem. Through our unrivaled market intelligence and portfolio management software, our expert consulting services, and the leading regulated clean energy marketplace, we deliver the infrastructure and information needed to move the entire industry – and your business – forward. Resurety’s CleanTrade™ is the first and only CFTC-registered transaction platform for as-generated energy, and our CleanSight™ software simplifies complex workflows with the most sophisticated intelligence and portfolio management tools in the market. The result is increased transparency, liquidity, speed, and impact for the industry and our customers.
Working at Resurety
Our values shape our culture. We’re building a team of people who live our values every day.
- Know Our Customers: We are obsessive about helping our customers win by understanding their world, their challenges, and their goals.
- Audacious Ambition: We approach every challenge with the confidence and the conviction to pursue big, hard goals that others won’t.
- Focused and Fast: We identify the highest priority work, execute with speed and quality, and drive momentum by succeeding or failing fast, then moving on to the next important thing.
- Win Together: We are one unified team; we collaborate across functions and share collective ownership of our success and our failures.
- Own It: We are accountable to ourselves, our team, and our customers. We proactively give and receive feedback and recognition to constantly improve.
Position Overview
Are you looking for an engaging career in the clean energy markets? Do you want to work with a team of smart, passionate people changing the future of energy both financially and environmentally? Is DevSecOps your passion? If so, let’s connect!
This Senior Cloud Operations Engineer role is central to scaling and maintaining Resurety's cloud-native infrastructure and continuous delivery capabilities. The position sits within the Engineering DevOps department and supports two distinct platforms. The primary focus is on implementing and automating robust, secure, and highly available cloud services, with a primary focus on AWS expertise. The successful candidate will drive the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles with tools such as Terraform, manage containerized applications with Docker/ECR/ECS, and build and optimize CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions). This role requires a strong blend of development and operations skills to ensure system stability through comprehensive monitoring (CloudWatch, GuardDuty, OpenSearch), rigorous troubleshooting, and proactive integration of security practices (DevSecOps) throughout the entire software development lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
- CI/CD Pipelines: Develop, maintain, and optimize continuous integration and delivery processes to automate code deployments.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Monitoring and Observability: Implement logging, alerting, and monitoring to track application performance and ensure system uptime.
- Containerization & Orchestration: Manage application containers (Docker) and orchestration platforms, ECR/ECS.
- Automation & Troubleshooting: Automate routine manual processes, perform root cause analysis, and resolve production errors.
- Security (DevSecOps): Integrate security checks, perform compliance scans, and vulnerability testing directly into the deployment pipeline.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- Experience: 2–5 years in DevOps, software development, and system administration.
- Scripting/Programming: Proficiency in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Cloud Platforms: Deep knowledge of AWS Cloud Architecture, experience in Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Tools: Familiarity with GitHub, Atlassian, Jenkins, Docker, SonarQube, Terraform, and Jfrog.
- Collaboration: Strong communication skills to act as a bridge between development and operations teams.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a relevant field preferred.
Preferred Qualifications
- CI/CD: Jenkins, BitBucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions.
- IaC: Preferred Terraform, or experience with Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
- Cloud: Preferred AWS, or experience in Azure or GCP.
- Monitoring: Guard Duty, CloudWatch, Grafana, OpenSearch, Datadog.
- Containerization: Preferred Docker, or experience with Kubernetes.
Details
- Location: Boston, MA
- Our organization works on a hybrid model. We are in the office on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays at our downtown Boston building, and remote work is optional on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Compensation and Benefits
- The base compensation range for this position is $124,100 to $135,600. Actual starting pay is determined by a number of factors, including relevant skills, qualifications, and experience. This range does not include annual bonus, equity-based incentives, and benefits.
Benefits information can be found on our Careers page: https://resurety.com/about/careers/
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding STEM OPT Authorization as a Cloud Operations Engineer
Verify your CIP code before applying
Cloud Operations Engineer roles typically align with CIP codes in computer science, computer engineering, or information systems. Confirm your degree's CIP code with your DSO before your initial OPT ends to make sure your extension application is filed on the correct basis.
Filter job postings by E-Verify status
STEM OPT requires your employer to be enrolled in E-Verify before your extension is approved. Ask recruiters directly whether the hiring entity is E-Verify enrolled, since parent companies and subsidiaries are registered separately and the job posting rarely specifies which legal entity you'd join.
Use Migrate Mate to target employers with cloud hiring history
Search Migrate Mate for Cloud Operations Engineer roles filtered by employers who have sponsored STEM OPT students before. Seeing which companies have actively filed training plans in your field saves you from applying to roles where sponsorship is unlikely to move forward.
Benchmark your offer against DOL prevailing wage
Your I-983 training plan must reflect bona fide employment at a wage comparable to similarly situated U.S. workers. Pull the prevailing wage for cloud operations roles in your metro area using the OFLC Wage Search to check whether your offer clears that threshold before you sign.
Negotiate your start date around your 90-day filing window
You must file your STEM OPT extension application with USCIS up to 90 days before your initial OPT expires. If your job offer lands inside that window, align your start date so the I-765 is filed before expiration and your 180-day cap-gap period covers any gap between authorization dates.
Prepare your I-983 training plan before the offer stage
Many employers slow down STEM OPT onboarding because they haven't seen an I-983 before. Draft a completed template showing cloud operations learning objectives tied to your STEM degree field so your hiring manager and HR team can co-sign quickly without delaying your start date.
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Find Cloud Operations Engineer JobsFrequently Asked Questions
Does a Cloud Operations Engineer role qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
Yes, if your underlying degree is in a STEM-designated field such as computer science, computer engineering, information technology, or systems engineering. The role itself doesn't need to carry a specific title, but your I-983 training plan must connect the practical training objectives to your STEM degree field. Your DSO confirms eligibility based on your degree's CIP code, not your job title.
What does E-Verify enrollment mean for my Cloud Operations Engineer job search?
STEM OPT regulations require your employer to be enrolled in E-Verify before USCIS approves your extension. Enrollment is at the employer entity level, so a large technology company may have some subsidiaries or business units enrolled and others not. Ask HR to confirm the specific legal entity that will employ you is actively enrolled in E-Verify before you accept an offer.
What goes into the I-983 training plan for a Cloud Operations Engineer role?
Your I-983 must describe the specific skills, knowledge, and cloud operations competencies you'll develop and explain how they connect to your STEM degree. For this role, that typically includes infrastructure automation, incident response workflows, cloud platform administration, and monitoring tooling. Your employer co-signs the form and must conduct a self-evaluation at 12 months and a final evaluation at the end of your extension period.
How does cap-gap protection work if my STEM OPT extension is pending when initial OPT expires?
If you file a timely STEM OPT extension application before your initial OPT EAD expires, cap-gap protection automatically extends your work authorization for up to 180 days while USCIS adjudicates. You can continue working as a Cloud Operations Engineer during this period. Your I-94 reflects the cap-gap extension, and your employer's E-Verify case should be run against that updated record.
Where can I find Cloud Operations Engineer jobs where employers already understand STEM OPT?
Migrate Mate lets you browse Cloud Operations Engineer roles filtered for employers with a track record of hiring STEM OPT students. Working with employers who have gone through the I-983 and E-Verify process before shortens onboarding time and lowers the risk that HR delays or unfamiliarity with the extension process will affect your start date or authorization.
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