Cloud Engineer

Job summary

The Cloud Engineer designs, deploys, secures, and operates AWS infrastructure supporting enterprise IT operations and cloud modernization. Responsibilities include infrastructure automation with Terraform or AWS CloudFormation, CI/CD pipelines, security controls aligned with DoD and federal requirements, monitoring and cost optimization, and integration with enterprise systems. The environment uses services such as EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, ECS, and Fargate.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of relevant IT infrastructure, systems engineering, or cloud engineering experience, including substantial hands-on AWS experience.
• Experience designing, deploying, administering, and troubleshooting AWS cloud infrastructure and services.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or other Infrastructure as Code technologies.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language, such as Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
• Working knowledge of cloud security, access controls, vulnerability management, and infrastructure hardening.
• Experience supporting production enterprise IT environments and resolving complex infrastructure issues.
• Strong documentation, troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate with technical teams and government stakeholders.
• Active DoD Secret clearance; U.S. or naturalized citizenship required.
• Meet applicable DoD 8140 workforce qualification requirements and maintain required certifications and clearance eligibility.
• Bachelor's degree in a related technical discipline or equivalent relevant professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, administer, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available AWS infrastructure.
• Engineer cloud compute, storage, database, networking, and containerized workloads.
• Implement backup, disaster recovery, high availability, and business continuity solutions.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or comparable technologies.
• Build and operate CI/CD pipelines and automate infrastructure provisioning and deployments.
• Implement AWS security controls aligned with DoD policies, NIST SP 800-53, and federal requirements.
• Support RMF processes, ATO requirements, vulnerability remediation, security monitoring, and incident response.
• Monitor cloud health, availability, performance, resource use, and costs; troubleshoot incidents and conduct root cause analysis.
• Support cloud migration, application modernization, infrastructure consolidation, and containerization.
• Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and infrastructure inventories.
• Integrate AWS services with enterprise infrastructure and applications, including ServiceNow CMDB where applicable.
• Collaborate with government stakeholders and multidisciplinary technical teams on architecture, operations, and continuous improvement.

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