Cloud Engineer — Army Cloud Infrastructure

Job summary

Implements and optimizes cloud infrastructure for Army enterprise systems and mission operations. Responsibilities include deploying and automating infrastructure, migrating applications and workloads from on-premises systems, administering virtual servers, monitoring performance, and maintaining backup and disaster recovery capabilities across approved cloud environments such as AWS and Microsoft Azure.

Qualifications

• Approximately 5 or more years of experience in systems engineering, cloud administration, or cloud infrastructure engineering.
• Hands-on experience deploying and supporting AWS, Microsoft Azure, or equivalent enterprise cloud platforms.
• Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar infrastructure automation tools.
• Knowledge of Windows Server or Linux administration.
• Experience with virtual machines, cloud networking, storage, and infrastructure monitoring.
• Familiarity with cloud migration, backup systems, and disaster recovery.
• Ability to troubleshoot cloud infrastructure and service interruptions.
• Understanding of federal cybersecurity and change management requirements.
• Preferred: experience supporting Army cloud platforms, federal cloud modernization, DevSecOps, continuous deployment, or regulated and RMF-governed systems.

Responsibilities

• Build, configure, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure in approved Army environments.
• Automate and standardize deployments using Infrastructure as Code.
• Support orchestration, provisioning, configuration management, and cloud resource optimization.
• Migrate applications, databases, and workloads from on-premises systems to cloud environments.
• Assess system dependencies and prepare migration plans.
• Perform data transfers, post-migration testing, and application validation.
• Administer cloud-hosted virtual servers, including updates, patching, and configuration changes.
• Monitor resource utilization, performance, system health, and security advisories.
• Investigate performance bottlenecks and resolve technical issues.
• Maintain backup schedules, recovery procedures, and data protection mechanisms.
• Support high availability and continuity of operations.
• Collaborate with architects, cybersecurity personnel, application teams, and government stakeholders.

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