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Cloud Engineer - AWS
Design, automate, and secure AWS environments for federal applications, with infrastructure as code, DevSecOps, and CI/CD at the center of the role.
Washington, DC · Active Secret clearance
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure across AWS.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform and Ansible.
- Automate provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and secure application delivery.
- Build and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines with integrated security and compliance checks.
- Apply cloud security, IAM, networking, encryption, secrets-management, and data-protection practices.
- Perform vulnerability assessment and remediation across AWS and, where needed, GCP environments.
- Partner with application teams, SREs, platform engineers, and security teams on reliability and scalable delivery.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure issues, implement durable fixes, mentor engineers, and contribute to team knowledge sharing.
Minimum qualifications
- Active Secret clearance.
- Hands-on AWS experience across compute, networking, IAM, storage, and monitoring.
- Proficiency with Terraform and Ansible.
- Strong GitLab CI/CD experience, including runners and security integrations.
- Working knowledge of DevSecOps practices, container security, secrets management, compliance automation, and vulnerability scanning.
- Scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, or a similar language.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK/EFK.
- Strong understanding of IAM, encryption, cloud security controls, and zero-trust principles.
Preferred qualifications
- AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, Google Cloud Architect, or comparable certification.
- Kubernetes experience with EKS or GKE.
- Multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud integration experience.
- Familiarity with policy-as-code frameworks such as OPA or Sentinel.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
Work style
Washington, DC · Onsite
Benefits & culture
Competitive compensation and benefits for formal openings may include paid leave, health, dental, and vision coverage, plus professional-development opportunities.
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