Position Summary
We are seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to support a secure government digital platform.
The ideal candidate is a technically fluent SysAdmin who can support AWS cloud platform operations, write and maintain Infrastructure as Code, and assist with DevSecOps workflows.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, and sustainment of cloud-based platform environments.
- Assist with AWS environment configuration, access management, deployment readiness, and operational support.
- Support Infrastructure as Code activities using Terraform or similar tools.
- Coordinate with DevSecOps engineers on CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, configuration management, and release support.
- Help document environment needs, access requirements, operational dependencies, and platform readiness criteria.
- Support issue triage related to cloud access, environments, configuration, deployments, and platform behavior.
- Participate in security and compliance support activities, including evidence gathering, vulnerability tracking, remediation coordination, and RMF/ATO-related documentation as needed.
- Participation in systems hardening for ATO support, including ACAS scan remediation and STIG compliance.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of relevant experience as a DevSecOps Analyst, Systems Administrator, Platform Analyst, or similar role.
- Experience supporting technical delivery in cloud, platform, API, integration, or secure government environments.
- Familiarity with AWS cloud environments and cloud operations concepts.
- Familiarity with Red Hat Linux administration.
- Familiarity with Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
- Familiarity with DevSecOps concepts, CI/CD pipelines, version control, deployment processes, and release coordination.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently in a remote environment while coordinating across distributed technical and non-technical teams.
- U.S. citizenship required.
- Active Secret clearance required; must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting Department of Defense, Navy, or federal government programs.
- Experience with API authentication and authorization patterns such as OAuth, client credentials, JWT, certificates, API keys, or token-based access.
- Experience with AWS GovCloud or secure government cloud environments.
- Experience supporting RMF, ATO, IATT, NIST controls, STIG compliance, vulnerability management, or security compliance documentation.
- Experience with Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, SharePoint, Git, or similar collaboration and delivery tools.