Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (Contractor)

Job summary

Own and support the AWS-based engineering computing environment for Radioisotope Power Systems development, including cloud workstations, compute clusters, storage, networking, access, software licensing, and user support. Install and maintain engineering applications such as ANSYS, MCNP, SOLIDWORKS, and HyperMesh, while translating engineering workflows into technical requirements for IT teams, infrastructure partners, and vendors. The role also supports compute-intensive workloads and cloud systems subject to controlled-information and cybersecurity requirements.

Qualifications

• At least five years of experience supporting cloud infrastructure, engineering computing, high-performance computing, research computing, or complex technical applications.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, FSx, S3, IAM, VPC, and CloudWatch.
• Experience configuring and maintaining floating-license servers.
• Understanding of compute-intensive workloads and CPU, memory, storage, networking, and parallel-processing requirements.
• Ability to translate engineering needs into actionable technical requirements for IT teams, vendors, and infrastructure providers.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, project coordination, and customer-support skills.
• Ability to independently resolve technical problems spanning organizational or system boundaries.
• Working knowledge of CUI handling, access control, system hardening, vulnerability management, audit logging, configuration documentation, and compliance evidence collection.
• Preferred experience with AWS-based HPC clusters, distributed solvers, job schedulers, or AWS ParallelCluster.
• Preferred familiarity with standardized machine images, automated system configurations, infrastructure-as-code tools, and scripting languages.

Responsibilities

• Own the AWS-based engineering computing environment, including workstations, compute clusters, storage, user profiles, networking, access, and license services.
• Translate engineering workflows and software needs into technical requirements for IT teams, cloud infrastructure partners, and software vendors.
• Install, configure, validate, and maintain engineering applications, including ANSYS, MCNP, SOLIDWORKS, and HyperMesh.
• Configure and administer software license servers and troubleshoot licensing and connectivity issues.
• Support user accounts, permissions, application access, storage, data transfers, compute jobs, and other engineering-computing needs.
• Lead technical requirements for engineering software procurement, including infrastructure, licensing, security, integration, and installation.

Skills

Degrees

Work schedule

Travel

Industry

Contract length

Relocation