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Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Nightwing · Sterling, VA, United States
Sterling, VA, United StatesExp: 5+ yrs77,000-163,000 USD/yearlyRemote
Remuneration
$77,000–$163,000; medical, vision, and dental insurance; 401(k); paid time off; holidays; additional insurance
Location
Sterling, VA, United States
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
Develop and operate cloud-based server and application infrastructure supporting new and existing workloads, primarily in AWS GovCloud. The role provisions and governs multi-account AWS environments, builds cloud resources with Terraform and GitLab CI/CD, and manages networking, access controls, monitoring, security compliance, and disaster recovery. It also supports cloud-hosted Linux and Windows systems while optimizing infrastructure for cost, performance, and scalability.
Benefits
Medical, vision, and dental insurance401(k) planPaid time offHolidaysAdditional insurance
Qualifications
- At least five years of IT operations, security, development, or cloud engineering experience.
- At least three years running, architecting, and managing services with AWS or another major cloud provider.
- Experience designing services with AWS resources such as EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, and Lambda.
- Experience creating and managing AWS accounts and VPCs.
- Proficiency with AWS multi-account governance, Service Control Policies, and AWS Landing Zone Accelerator.
- At least three years of Linux system administration experience.
- Familiarity with Windows system administration.
- At least two years of networking fundamentals applied to cloud environments.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and version control.
- U.S. citizenship.
- Bachelor of Science in a related engineering field, or five additional years of applicable engineering, computer science, or information science experience.
Responsibilities
- Provision and govern AWS accounts and organizational structures using Service Control Policies.
- Design, deploy, and maintain multi-account environments with AWS Landing Zone Accelerator.
- Create and manage VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, and network connectivity.
- Automate cloud resource provisioning and configuration with Terraform and GitLab CI/CD.
- Deploy and maintain applications and services in AWS GovCloud across development and production environments.
- Manage IAM roles, policies, and least-privilege access controls.
- Configure cloud monitoring, logging, and alerting with CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config.
- Apply government cloud security and compliance controls, including FedRAMP and NIST 800-53.
- Optimize infrastructure for cost, performance, and scalability.
- Lead technical projects and coordinate delivery with team members and other departments.
- Apply disaster recovery and business continuity practices to server, network, and security design.
- Maintain cloud-hosted Linux and Windows servers, including system logging, monitoring, and maintenance.
- Support operational security monitoring, compliance, and auditing tools.
Skills
AKSAWSAzureBashChefCloudWatchDockerEKSGCPGitLabGitLab CIGKEHelmIAMKubernetesAWS LambdaLinuxPowerShellPuppetPythonS3Cloud MonitoringTerraformWindowsDocker Compose
Certifications
AWS Solutions ArchitectAWS DeveloperAWS SysOps AdministratorAWS Security SpecialtyAzure Administrator or Solutions ArchitectGoogle Cloud ProfessionalLinux+Security+
Degrees
Bachelor of Science in a related engineering field, or five additional years of
Industry
Government cloudCybersecurityDefenseIntelligence
Relocation
No