Senior Cloud Engineer

Job summary

MANTECH is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain secure, highly scalable hybrid-cloud infrastructures for advanced multi-domain engineering and testing environments. This role involves architecting Impact Level 6 (IL6) cloud enclaves, utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and enabling seamless integration between centralized data repositories and tactical edge computing nodes. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in cloud computing, a deep understanding of Department of Defense (DoD) security requirements, and a passion for leveraging modern tools to solve complex network challenges.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Information Technology, or a similar technical field from an ABET-accredited program, or 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Proven experience with enterprise cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Microsoft Azure.
• Hands-on experience with DevSecOps methodologies, containerization technologies, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools and automation scripting.
• Demonstrated experience with DoD cloud security requirements, specifically Impact Level 6 (IL6) environments and the Risk Management Framework (RMF).
• Experience working with Platform One's Iron Bank or similar DoW-approved software building blocks.
• Familiarity with high-volume data streaming and pipeline tools such as Apache Kafka.
• Experience in the defense industry, specifically supporting complex simulation, Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) environments, or tactical networks.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain secure, highly scalable hybrid-cloud infrastructures to support advanced multi-domain engineering and testing environments.
• Architect Impact Level 6 (IL6) cloud enclaves.
• Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Enable seamless integration between centralized data repositories and tactical edge computing nodes.
• Create and manage authoritative data pipelines and containerized applications.
• Ensure systems are secure by design and highly performant.
• Work closely with network engineers, software developers, and systems architects to define infrastructure requirements and ensure seamless integration across various security domains.
• Design, deploy, and maintain secure hybrid-cloud architectures and IL6 cloud environments (e.g., AWS GovCloud or Azure Government).
• Develop and maintain modern Infrastructure as Code (IaC) pipelines to programmatically spin up secure, isolated network environments.
• Utilize pre-accredited containers (e.g., Platform One’s Iron Bank) to build, deploy, and manage hardware-agnostic microservices and containerized applications.
• Architect and maintain automated multi-modal Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) pipelines using tools like Apache Kafka to process high-volume datasets.
• Implement and manage automated DevSecOps Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to support rapid, iterative software delivery.
• Design data ingestion architectures utilizing log forwarders (e.g., Elastic or Fluentd) and integrate high-performance visualization tools (e.g., Grafana or Kibana).
• Allocate heavy, non-real-time workloads to the cloud while optimizing edge nodes for latency-sensitive tactical processing.
• Document cloud architectures, automated deployment playbooks, and system configurations clearly and concisely.

Skills

Degrees

Security clearance

Relocation