Jobs / Steerbridge
Senior 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; potential disability coverage and professional development.
Location
Vienna, VA, United States
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
Build and operate secure AWS GovCloud infrastructure for a mission-critical disability claims platform supporting Veterans and federal customers. Provision infrastructure as code, run ECS and Fargate workloads, maintain CI/CD pipelines and production monitoring, and troubleshoot cloud networking, identity, and compute. The role also supports security remediation, compliance, and ATO activities in regulated environments using technologies such as Terraform, Terragrunt, and CloudWatch.
Benefits
Health insuranceDental insuranceVision insuranceLife insurance401(k) with matchingPaid time offPaid federal holidaysDisability coverageProfessional development
Qualifications
- U.S. citizenship required.
- Ability to obtain and maintain the required security clearance.
- At least five years of hands-on cloud engineering experience, preferably with AWS.
- Experience with cloud networking, including VPCs, subnets, routing, DNS, and security groups.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, automation, CI/CD pipelines, and Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Scripting experience with Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- 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 is preferred.
- 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 containerized workloads on ECS and Fargate.
- Maintain CI/CD pipelines, STIG-hardened baselines, and container image pipelines.
- Monitor production systems with CloudWatch and tune logs, metrics, and alarms.
- Participate in on-call rotation and incident response.
- Troubleshoot networking, DNS, identity, and compute issues.
- Improve system reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Apply least-privilege IAM policies and support secure, zero-trust connectivity.
- Remediate security findings and support audits, compliance, and ATO documentation.
- Document infrastructure, runbooks, and automation.
Skills
AWSBashCloudFormationCloudWatchDockerECSFargateIAMKubernetesPowerShellPythonS3TerraformTerragrunt
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – AssociateAWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Work schedule
On-call rotation
Industry
U.S. GovernmentFederal servicesDisability claims
Security clearance
Must be able to obtain and maintain the security clearance required for the role
Relocation
No