Jobs / Steerbridge
Cloud Engineer
Steerbridge · Vienna, VA, United States
Vienna, VA, United StatesExp: 5+ yrs134,000-164,000 USD/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
Health, dental, vision, and life insurance; 401(k) with matching; paid time off; paid federal holidays; disability coverage; professional development opportunities
Location
Vienna, VA, United States
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
Builds and operates secure AWS GovCloud infrastructure for a mission-critical disability claims platform supporting Veterans and federal customers. The role provisions infrastructure as code with Terraform and Terragrunt, runs ECS and Fargate container workloads, and maintains CI/CD pipelines. It also supports production monitoring, incident response, security remediation, and federal compliance and authorization activities.
Benefits
Health insuranceDental insuranceVision insuranceLife insurance401(k) with matchingPaid time offPaid federal holidaysDisability coverageProfessional development opportunities
Qualifications
- U.S. citizenship required.
- Ability to obtain and maintain the security clearance required for the role.
- At least 5 years of hands-on cloud engineering experience, preferably with AWS.
- Experience with VPCs, subnets, routing, DNS, security groups, IAM, and cloud security fundamentals.
- Experience with Terraform or CloudFormation, CI/CD pipelines, and Python, Bash, or PowerShell scripting.
- Experience deploying and operating Docker workloads with ECS, Fargate, or Kubernetes.
- Preferred experience with AWS GovCloud or regulated federal environments.
- Familiarity with NIST 800-53, RMF, and federal ATO processes.
- Preferred experience with ECR image pipelines, STIG-hardened baselines, ZTNA or SASE, and hub-and-spoke networks.
Responsibilities
- Provision and manage AWS GovCloud infrastructure using Terraform and Terragrunt.
- Operate ECS and Fargate workloads and maintain CI/CD and container image pipelines.
- Maintain STIG-hardened baselines and support secure container delivery.
- Monitor production with CloudWatch and tune logs, metrics, and alarms.
- Participate in on-call rotation and incident response.
- Troubleshoot networking, DNS, identity, and compute issues.
- Improve infrastructure reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Apply least-privilege IAM policies and support zero-trust access and secure connectivity.
- Remediate security findings and support audits, compliance, and ATO activities.
- Collaborate on designs, reviews, backlog refinement, and sprint planning.
- Document infrastructure, runbooks, and automation.
Skills
AWSBashCloudFormationCloudWatchDockerECSFargateIAMKubernetesPowerShellPythonS3TerraformTerragruntGitHub Actions
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – AssociateAWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Work schedule
On-call rotation
Industry
Federal governmentVeterans benefitsClaims systems
Security clearance
Must be able to obtain and maintain the security clearance required for the role
Relocation
No