Senior AWS Cloud Engineer

Job summary

The Senior AWS Cloud Engineer builds and operates a secure AWS GovCloud (US) foundation for controlled information and manufacturing data supporting aerospace and defense operations. The role establishes infrastructure as code, cloud networking, secure industrial data ingestion and analytics, and CI/CD automation, while maintaining monitoring, audit readiness, operational resilience, and repeatable cloud integration patterns for acquired companies.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of cloud engineering experience with deep hands-on AWS experience.
• Direct AWS GovCloud (US) experience; 2 or more years in GovCloud or another accredited or regulated cloud is strongly preferred.
• Strong AWS networking experience, including VPC, Transit Gateway, and Direct Connect or VPN.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code skills and experience with CI/CD and Git-based automation.
• Experience designing secure AWS data pipelines or data lakes using services such as S3, IAM, and KMS.
• Familiarity with CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, or FedRAMP cloud control expectations, or willingness to learn.
• Industrial IoT or edge data-ingestion experience is preferred.
• Manufacturing or defense-sector cloud experience is preferred.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
• Must be a U.S. person as defined by ITAR.

Responsibilities

• Design and build an AWS GovCloud landing zone with networking, identity, guardrails, and logging aligned to FedRAMP High and CMMC Level 2 expectations.
• Establish version-controlled, repeatable, and auditable infrastructure-as-code standards using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
• Build secure shop-floor data ingestion, a CUI-tiered data lake, and downstream analytics architecture.
• Implement bastion or jump hosts, private connectivity, and least-privilege access patterns.
• Configure FIPS-validated encryption, KMS key management, immutable logging, and boundary controls.
• Own VPC design, Transit Gateway, and Direct Connect or VPN connectivity to on-premises sites.
• Automate infrastructure and deployments with CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows.
• Maintain cloud monitoring, logging, observability, cost visibility, and optimization.
• Develop repeatable cloud integration patterns for acquired companies' data and systems.

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